In 2009, the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights conducted an inquiry on business and human rights. Below are materials related to the inquiry. For the Committee’s final report, and commentaries on it, click here.
All submissions received by the Joint Committee
Written evidence received by the Committee as of 21 May 2009 [PDF]
Call for Evidence
Call for Evidence, 6 March 2009 [PDF]
Audios, videos of hearings
- Amnesty International, Action Aid, CORE Coalition, and Sepna Malik, Leigh & Day Solicitors; Trades Union Congress and Institute of Employment Rights, 9 June
- Associated British Foods, BP, Confed. of British Industry, Rio Tinto, Tesco, 30 June
Submissions
If an individual or organization has made a submission and would like us to post it here please let us know contact@business-humanrights.org
- ActionAid [DOC], 30 Apr
- Amnesty UK, 1 May
- Anti-Slavery [DOC], 1 May
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre [PDF], 25 Feb
- Business for Social Responsibility [PDF], 1 May
- Business in the Community [PDF], 1 May
- Chandler, Sir Geoffrey [DOC], 21 Apr
- Cockayne, James [DOC], 4 May
- Colombia Solidarity Campaign, regarding Mandé Norte/Murindó mining project, 23 Apr
- Responses by Muriel Mining, Rio Tinto
- Confederation of British Industry [DOC], May
- Corner House [PDF], May
- Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition [PDF], 1 May
- Danish Institute of Human Rights, Human Rights & Business Project [DOC], Jun 2009
- Drakos, Maassarani, Radon [PDF], 1 May
- Drive Up Standards [DOC], 1 May
- We invited National Express to respond but it did not do so
- EarthRights International [PDF], 1 May
- Global Witness [PDF], 5 May
- Hermer, Richard QC, Doughty Street Chambers [DOC], 30 Apr
- Institute for Human Rights & Business [DOC], 30 Apr
- International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) [PDF], 1 May
- Kinley, Professor David, University of Sydney [DOC], 30 Apr
- Leigh Day & Co [PDF], 30 Apr
- Meyersfeld, Bonita [DOC], 1 May
- Oxfam GB [DOC], 1 May
- Rights & Accountability in Development (RAID) [DOC], 6 May
- Survival International, 30 Apr
- Synergy Global Consulting [PDF], 1 May
- van Dam, Professor Cees [PDF], May
- Vigeo [PDF], 28 Apr
- War on Want, 7 May
- Working Group on Mining in the Philippines, 30 Apr
