Introduction to the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human …
WEBThe UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations.. They were proposed and drafted by UN Special Representative on business and human rights John Ruggie during his 2005-2011 mandate, and endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011.
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Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
WEB5 days ago · As set out in the UN Guiding Principles, human rights due diligence is a process for identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for human rights impacts. This includes both actual impacts occurring in the present and potential impacts that could occur in the future. Human rights due diligence is not an end in itself, but a means to an ...
Human Rights Defenders & Civic Freedoms
WEBIn 2023 the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre recorded 630 instances of attacks against people raising concerns about business-related harms. This is part of a consistent, ongoing pattern of attacks against HRDs protecting our rights and planet globally, with more than 5,300 attacks recorded since January 2015.
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WEBThe Just Transition Litigation Tracking Tool from the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has documented, until 31 May 2024, 60 legal cases launched around the world by Indigenous Peoples, other communities and workers or their representatives directly impacted by human rights harms associated with the …
Nike is facing a new wave of anti-sweatshop protests
WEBAug 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 …
Transition Minerals Tracker: Global analysis of human rights in the ...
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UNGPs Guidance & Implementation - Business & Human Rights …
WEBUNGPs 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 …
Study examines arms trade and corporate legal responsibility for …
WEBJan 10, 2020 · [N]ot enough attention is paid to considerations of international human rights and humanitarian law... [I]t is important to also consider the arms trade from an (international) criminal law perspective and through the lens of business responsibilities.
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WEBOur library of curated information relating to the field of business and human rights contains over 200,000 pages – increasing daily. For targeted results, use filters based on our taxonomy: the terms we apply to pages when we add them to the website. These might include the country where news or alleged abuses took place, the companies linked to the news, the sector where alleged victims ...
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