Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Labour Rights

The latest news on labour rights and our work supporting and advancing the labour rights of workers in global supply chains.

Who Pays For The Crisis?

This portal focuses on the key intersection between supply chain resilience, purchasing practices and worker rights.

Migrant workers in global supply chains

Migrants are some of the world’s most vulnerable supply chain workers, moving both internationally (estimated at 167.7 million people by the UN) and within borders.

Myanmar garment worker allegations tracker

Myanmar’s military illegally seized power on 1 February 2021. Through collaboration with partners and allies inside and outside Myanmar, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is monitoring the significant increase in labour and human rights abuses of garment workers across the country since the military takeover.

Natural Resources and Just Energy Transition

Energy, minerals, land and water sit at the heart of the transition to low-carbon economies, and at the start of every supply chain. However, the use of our planet's resources is all too often entwined with human rights abuse. At the other end of the value chain - renewable energy developers must also ensure they respect human rights to retain public support.
Find out why we must ensure that the transition is both fast and fair.

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.

Just energy transition principles for human rights in business and investment

Extractives & Transition Minerals

Human rights impacts of the extractive industries and industry-specific initiatives to improve companies’ human rights practices

Technology & Human Rights

Technology offers powerful tools for society, but restrictions to digital freedom, and developments in artificial intelligence, automation and robotics, raise serious concerns about the impacts on human rights and the future of work.

Digital Freedom

Latest news and developments on declining digital freedom and key reports, guidance and tools

Gig Economy

Human rights implications and legal and policy rights protection frameworks for gig economy workers

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Latest research and perspectives on the implications of AI for human rights

Gender, Business & Human Rights

Applying an intersectional approach is the most powerful way to tackle unfair treatment and transform the status quo. Gender justice must lie at the heart of business and human rights.

Tools & Guidance

Tools and guidance to strengthen connections between gender, business and human rights.

Research & Analysis

Unpack the gendered dimensions of different issues

Webinars, Videos & Podcasts

Watch and listen to different issues related to gender, business and human rights

Human Rights Defenders & Civic Freedoms

HRDs are at the forefront of creating a more equitable, sustainable and abundant world where rights are protected, people and nature thrive, and just economies can flourish. They share important information about human rights risks and impacts related to business operations and supply chains that is essential for company and investor due diligence. Yet, HRDs across the globe face attacks related to their vital human rights work. This hub compiles related key developments, shares guidance for companies and investors, and highlights positive business actions. It also links to our database of attacks and HRD interview series.

Land & Environmental Defenders

Labour Rights Defenders

Company & investor support for HRDs

Corporate Legal Accountability

Corporate Legal Accountability (CLA) considers the legal responsibility of companies for human rights abuses, including through legislation and litigation. This hub provides latest news, analysis, resources, and cases on CLA to help advocates end corporate impunity for human rights abuses.

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Paper-pushers or change-makers? The EU's Omnibus should not stifle companies' efforts to tackle their most severe human rights risks

Shared responsibility, shared benefits: paving the way to living wages in Cambodia

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Paper-pushers or change-makers? The EU's Omnibus should not stifle companies' efforts to tackle their most severe human rights risks

Shared responsibility, shared benefits: paving the way to living wages in Cambodia

We advance human rights in business.

We track over 10,000 companies, and help the vulnerable eradicate abuse.

EU: Delaying anti-deforestation legislation actively prevents action, threatens Indigenous Peoples' livelihoods & lets down European citizens, says ClientEarth

Nepal: Communities complain to JICA and involved project developers over tunnel project citing water loss and damaged homes; incl. cos responses

Saudi Arabia: Open letter signed by 6 intl. human rights groups "strongly condemns" alleged forced labour & extortion of Indian migrant worker by PIF-owned employer; incl. cos. non-responses

“We were treated as if we were machines”: Migrant workers powering Saudi Arabia’s energy transition

BHR in conflict-affected areas

Israel's war on Gaza: an unfolding genocide

Russian military aggression in Ukraine