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We help communities and NGOs get companies to address human rights concerns, and provide companies an opportunity to present their response in full. We take up alleged abuse quickly and directly with companies. We’ve made over 6,000 approaches to companies asking them to respond to specific human rights allegations.
Nike is facing a new wave of anti-sweatshop protests
Aug 1, 2017 · On July 29, students and activists around the world participated in a day of protest against Nike, organized by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The demonstrations, in cities such as Boston, Washington D.C., Bangalore, and San Pedro Sula in Honduras, represented an escalation of allegations against Nike that have been slowly bubbling up.
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 ...
USA: H&M faces 'greenwashing' class-action lawsuit over alleged ...
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Briefings & Reports - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Jun 2, 2020 · Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team. This section features research, reports and updates from the Resource Centre. Opinion pieces, interviews and blogs from across the business and human rights movement.
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 ...
Companies - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Jun 2, 2020 · 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 allegation of ...
Mandatory due diligence - Business & Human Rights Resource …
Under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights companies have a responsibility to undertake human rights due diligence. Yet a decade after their adoption benchmarks and analyses demonstrate low levels of commitment: almost half (46.2%) of the largest companies in the world analysed in the latest Corporate Human Rights Benchmark failed to show any evidence of identifying or ...
Wage theft and pandemic profits: The right to a living wage for …
Mar 11, 2021 · Millions of vulnerable workers in the garment industry have been denied full wages legally owed to them for work already completed due to order cancellations, non-payment and other harmful commercial practices by brands during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 ...