Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
HRDs’ work is essential to the business and human rights movement because of their critical importance for ensuring corporate responsibility and accountability. Yet, attacks on them are growing. This hub brings together news on these advocates and communities - specifically on land, environmental and labour defenders, guidance for companies ...
Big Issues - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
HRDs’ work is essential to the business and human rights movement because of their critical importance for ensuring corporate responsibility and accountability. Yet, attacks on them are growing. This hub brings together news on these advocates and communities - specifically on land, environmental and labour defenders, guidance for companies ...
Mandatory due diligence - Business & Human Rights Resource …
May 22, 2019 — 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 …
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 ...
Guiding Principles for its implementation. The Framework is based on three pillars: 1) the State duty to protect human rights, 2) the corporate responsibility to respect human rights and 3) access. to remedy where human rights are violated. In relation to the second pillar, the Guiding Principles recommend human.
Lafarge lawsuit (re complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria)
Snapshot: In 2016, 11 former Syrian employees and two NGOs filed a criminal complaint before French courts against Lafarge, a cement company, for alleged abuses committed in Syria by its subsidiary such as buying raw material from diverse jihadists groups to maintain its business activities in Syria in the midst of the Syrian Civil War and compensating these groups for safe …
Supreme Court throws out child slavery lawsuit against Nestle, …
Jun 30, 2021 — The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit alleging that the food companies Nestle and Cargill aided and abetted child slavery in the Ivory Coast.
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Conflict minerals - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Jul 25, 2024 — Conflict minerals could be in any of the electronics you use. Certain minerals (including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold) have been linked with funding killings, violence, rape, and other human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other conflict zones. These minerals can enter multinational companies' supply chains, and are ...
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 ...