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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.
UN Guiding Principles - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights (UNGPs) The 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 by UN Special Representative on business and human rights John Ruggie, and ...
Annual impact report 2021/22 - Business & Human Rights …
In June 2021, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre released Digging in the Shadows, an analysis of the human rights policies and performance of the largest extractives projects in Armenia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. The report found serious allegations around violence and killings, labour rights violations, environmental destruction ...
Summary: Third Revised Draft of the Binding Treaty on Business …
2021年8月17日 · This is an unofficial summary of the third revised draft of the legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises (hereafter the Treaty), which was published on 17 August 2021. This summary focuses on the substantive provisions of the Treaty, as stipulated in sections I and II [1].
Human rights defenders & business in 2022: People challenging …
“All over the world the positive achievements of human rights defenders too often go unrecognised. Defenders are targeted because they confront powerful vested interests by protecting our natural resources and shared climate, defending labour rights, exposing corruption, and refusing to accept injustice.
UN Business and Human Rights Treaty Negotiations
At the upcoming Binding Treaty negotiations, global trade unions are calling for the following priorities to be strengthened: A broad substantive scope covering all internationally recognised human rights, including fundamental workers’ and trade union rights, as defined by relevant international labour standards.
Mandatory due diligence - Business & Human Rights Resource …
2023年12月15日 · 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 ...
Strategic Plan - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2021年4月14日 · 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 ...
Briefing highlights latest mandatory human rights due diligence …
2022年1月17日 · "Business and Human Rights: Navigating a Changing Legal Landscape", January 2022. Legislation governing business impacts on human rights is increasing, with mandatory human rights reporting, due diligence obligations and other regulatory and legislative devices continuing to emerge across the globe.
Renewable Energy & Human Rights Benchmark
Since 2010, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has identified 197 allegations of human rights abuses related to renewable energy projects, and asked 127 companies to respond to these allegations. Abuse allegations include: killings, threats, and intimidation; land grabs; dangerous working conditions and poverty wages; and harm to ...