Companies - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Jun 2, 2020 · Company Pages. The Resource Centre digital platform stores news and allegations relating to the human rights impact of over 20,000 companies. Depending on the availability of data, this ranges from a handful of articles to over a decade of news stories, civil society reports and company disclosure. Additionally, in certain instances when an ...
Strategic Plan - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Apr 14, 2021 · Strategic Plan. Since our founding in 2002, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has played a constructive role at the heart of the global business and human rights movement. Current conditions in this and the next decade encourage us to continue working for the advancement of human rights in societies and seizing opportunities and ...
UNGPs Guidance & Implementation - Business & Human Rights …
UNGPs Guidance & Implementation. This section features guidance on how companies and governments should implement the UN Guiding Principles. Under the UNGPs, companies should: express their commitment to respect human rights through a policy statement; conduct human rights due diligence; and remediate negative impacts they have caused or ...
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Shared prosperity models & Indigenous Peoples' leadership for a just transition. News and resources from Indigenous Peoples Rights International and Business & Human Rights Resource Centre exploring the significant opportunity of Indigenous co-ownership of renewable energy projects, for an energy transition that is fast, just and equitable.
Annual impact report 2020/21 - Business & Human Rights …
Since 2014 the Resource Centre has been highlighting the urgent need for a fair and fast transition to clean energy. In 2020 we published the first-ever human rights benchmark of renewable energy companies. The scores were dreadful (average of 22%), but this has been a wake-up call to more responsible companies, and investors, regarding abuse ...
UN Human Rights Office publishes report on Artificial …
Nov 7, 2024 · The present report is submitted ... to discuss how artificial intelligence, including profiling, automated decision-making and machine-learning technologies may, without proper safeguards, affect the enjoyment of the right to privacy...
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Modern Slavery - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
The recent growth of modern slavery can be connected to a number of geopolitical issues, including: increasing poverty and inequality, global conflicts and the consequent large scale population movements, as well as consumer demand for ever more things at lower cost. Our reports and analyses have highlighted the limits of transparency-based ...
Labour Rights - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Labour Rights. Global inequalities in power allow the profit maximisation model of businesses to shape a global economy that prioritises profit over people. The dominance of this model facilitates various forms of exploitation including poverty wages, discrimination and violence, crackdowns on trade unions and collective organising, rising ...
Corporate Human Rights Benchmark releases 2018 ranking results …
Today (12 November), the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark released the results of its 2018 ranking. The benchmark assesses the human rights policies, processes, and practices of 101 of the world's largest publicly traded companies in three at-risk sectors (apparel, agricultural products, and extractives).