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Corporate Legal Accountability
Concise profiles of lawsuits against companies accused of human rights abuses & commentaries
Pacific Region & Human Rights
Under reported business and human rights issues, allegations of abuse and local voices.
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Mandatory Due Diligence
News & thought leadership on momentum towards due diligence laws
Gender and Human Rights
Recognising and valuing the voices and leadership of women in business & human rights
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Beyond Social Auditing
What are the solutions and reform options for social auditing?
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Modern slavery
In business operations and supply chains
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Technology and Human Rights
Opportunities and risks for human rights created by new and emerging technologies
Climate justice
What must business do to address the biggest human rights challenge of our time?
Human rights defenders
Track attacks & find tools for positive company action on civic freedoms.
UN Guiding Principles
Includes implementation tools & examples, information on UN Working Group
Chinese investment overseas
Guidance, cases and company responses
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Natural Resources
Accountability and transparency in the development and use of energy, minerals, land & water
In-depth areas
International
- 📄 Law Firm Business and Human Rights Peer Learning Process
- 📄 Investor state dispute settlement (ISDS)
- 📄 OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project
- 📄 Company policy statements on human rights
- 📄 International business and human rights organizations
- 📄 Company policies
- 📄 Panel discussion: “The workplace: Addressing racial discrimination & promoting diversity"
- 📄 Digital freedom
- 📄 Business tools and guidance
- 📄 Working Group
- 📄 Reporting
- 📄 Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity)
- 📄 Rights and Accountability in Development report re Och-Ziff & Zimbabwe - 2014
- 📄 "Carving up a continent" report by WDM, and company responses
- 📄 Report assesses financial institutions' responsibility to respect human rights: Case study on extractives
- 📄 Climate chane, business & human rights - week of 28 Apr 2014
- 📄 RightsCon conference on human rights in information & communications tech sectors - 2014
- 📄 Climate change websites
- 📄 G4S-UNI agreement
- 📄 Age discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Arbitrary detention - an introduction
- 📄 UN Global Compact
- 📄 Child labour - an introduction
- 📄 Unfair trial - key international standards
- 📄 Forced labour - an introduction
- 📄 Death penalty - key international standards
- 📄 Deaths - key international standards
- 📄 War on Want report & responses
- 📄 United Nations Sub-Commission Norms on business & human rights: Explanatory materials
- 📄 Migrant workers - an introduction
- 📄 Resources for business schools
- 📄 Torture & ill-treatment - an introduction
- 📄 Abduction - an introduction
- 📄 Living wage - key international standards
- 📄 Reports by John Ruggie to UN Human Rights Council
- 📄 Launch of the Sir Geoffrey Chandler speaker series, London, 4 Dec 2007
- 📄 Illness - key international standards
- 📄 Cultural issues - key international standards
- 📄 Injuries – key international standards
- 📄 Education - key international
- 📄 Text of business & human rights standards
- 📄 Supply chain/"Fair trade" - an introduction
- 📄 Access to medicines - key international standards
- 📄 Human Rights First, “Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity”: company responses & non-responses, Jan 2008
- 📄 Reporte de John Ruggie al Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU, 2007
- 📄 Side event: "Engaging NHRIs in securing the promotion and protection of human rights in business"
- 📄 Complicity - an introduction
- 📄 Human rights impact and compliance assessments
- 📄 "Business & Human Rights: 3 perspectives": 4 Dec 2007, London
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2008
- 📄 SOMO "overviews of controversial business practices 2008" - and company responses
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2006
- 📄 12 introductory reports on business & human rights
- 📄 Tax avoidance
- 📄 Labour - an introduction
- 📄 Access to water - an introduction
- 📄 Killings - an introduction
- 📄 Genocide - an introduction
- 📄 Gender discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Export processing zones - key international standards
- 📄 World AIDS Day: 1 Dec 2007
- 📄 Indigenous peoples - an introduction
- 📄 Racial & ethnic groups - key international standards
- 📄 In memory of E. Cary Brown
- 📄 Environment - An introduction
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2009
- 📄 Prison labour
- 📄 Death threats - key international standards
- 📄 Rape & sexual abuse - an introduction
- 📄 HIV/AIDS - an introduction
- 📄 Follow the money
- 📄 World Water Day and related events 2009
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Portal: Latest additions
- 📄 Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2013
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2014
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Events
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Investors
- 📄 ITU & UNICEF consultation on Guidelines for Industry on Child Online Protection
- 📄 Human rights impact assessment of the EU Everything But Arms initiative in Cambodia – includes EU response
- 📄 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice & Human Rights - 2013
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Commentaries
- 📄 Observatory of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Due diligence
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Natl. Human Rights Institutions
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Legal organizations
- 📄 Warsaw Climate Change Conference (Warsaw, Poland, 11-22 Nov 2013)
- 📄 Measuring Business & Human Rights
- 📄 Our 2013 highlights and 2014 plans - please consider supporting our work
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Intergovernmental organizations
- 📄 Modern-day Slavery
- 📄 Videos in other languages (Arabic, Chinese)
- 📄 Gold Dialogues
- 📄 Public Eye nominations 2012 - Company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2012
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign calls on fashion companies to ban sandblasting
- 📄 John Ruggie speech
- 📄 "The politics of corporate social responsibility: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations"
- 📄 Oil pollution
- 📄 AFL-CIO report on failures of social audits & certification at protecting workers rights - 2013
- 📄 Company responses re lawsuit against SEC over final rule accompanying section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Act
- 📄 UN Global Compact - human rights tools & guidance, local network activities
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2013
- 📄 UN Working Group on business & human rights
- 📄 Tributes to Sir Geoffrey Chandler, 1922-2011
- 📄 "Towards Social Assessment" - Fondation des Droits de l'Homme au Travail
- 📄 ICJ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity - Invitation for Submissions
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2010
- 📄 In Their Words - Advocates talk about their work on the human rights impacts of business
- 📄 Tax Justice Network reports 2012 - responses & non-responses by banks
- 📄 Shift & Mazars discussion paper on developing global human rights reporting & assurance standards
- 📄 Freedom of Association bulletin
- 📄 Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2012
- 📄 Side event on Children's Rights & Business
- 📄 Quarterly Bulletin on Business and Children
- 📄 Ma Jun to give keynote address: Mary Robinson Speaker Series, 7 Nov 2011, New York City
- 📄 PMSC Bulletin
- 📄 SOMO report on car manufacturers - company responses
- 📄 Business & Human Rights: The next 5 years
- 📄 May 2, 2013 in NYC - Launch of Just Business
- 📄 Briefing on business & freedom of association
- 📄 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Intl. Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC): Signatory Companies
- 📄 US Govt’s Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements - reports, comments, guidelines & company responses
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles & UN Working Group Portals - announcement
- 📄 Company responses to Oxfam's campaign: "Behind the Brands - Food Justice and the 'Big 10' Food and Beverage Companies"
- 📄 Business and human rights-themed videos, films and documentaries
- 📄 Short videos & news items
- 📄 Ma Jun: Keynote speaker at Mary Robinson Speaker Series, New York, 7 Nov 2011
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2011
- 📄 Online consultation for the Children's Rights and Business Principles Initiative
- 📄 Free, prior and informed consent
- 📄 Call for input - report on business & human rights and UN system - 2012
- 📄 Rebecca MacKinnon interview (London, 6 March 2012)
- 📄 Business’ human rights responsibilities in conflict zones: Standards, tools and perspectives
- 📄 Selection of articles on bio-piracy
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2013
- 📄 Film re Nestlé's impacts on access to water: "Bottled Life - The Truth about Nestlé's Business with Water"
- 📄 German companies’ surveillance technology allegedly used in connection with human rights abuses by authoritarian govts.
- 📄 Company responses to Platform report: “Making a Killing: Oil Companies, Tax Avoidance and Subsidies” – Feb 2013
- 📄 International standards
- 📄 Racial/ethnic/caste/origin discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Child soldiers
- 📄 Accountability Mechanisms
- 📄 Sourcing from conflict zones
- 📄 Development & poverty
- 📄 Humanitarian relief
- 📄 Environment
- 📄 Pregnancy discrimination
- 📄 Discrimination
- 📄 UN Guiding Principle 16 - Policy Commitment
- 📄 Children's Rights & Business
- 📄 Policy Innovations panel Mar 2007
- 📄 Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Linking development & human rights - an introduction
- 📄 Genetically-modified food/crops - key international standards
- 📄 Political opinion discrimination - key international standards
- 📄 Marital status discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Apple & environmental issues
- 📄 Business & Children
Africa
- 📄 Ugandan Oil Industry Mapping
- 📄 Amnesty report re mining & human rights in Senegal - 2014
- 📄 Exploitation minière et droits humains au Sénégal - rapport d'Amnesty International, 2014
- 📄 Francophone Africa briefing - 2014
- 📄 Briefing Afrique francophone - 2014
- 📄 UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing statement re Merowe dam, Sudan, 27 Aug 2007 - and company responses
- 📄 Darfur proxy statements
- 📄 Commentaries on Wiwa v Shell settlement, June 2009
- 📄 Chinese arms to Zimbabwe
- 📄 WACAM & FIAN responses regarding Akyem project
- 📄 Sir Geoffrey Chandler speaker series: 2nd annual event (2 Dec 2008)
- 📄 Diamond Dialogue
- 📄 Amnesty Intl report on impact of oil industry on human rights in Nigeria and company responses
- 📄 Cameroon Network of Human Rights Organizations Report (Jan 2014)
- 📄 So. Africa: Bench Marks Foundation says Lonmin has failed to live up to its CSR commitments for 10 years; company responds
- 📄 Bench Marks report re ArcelorMittal So. Africa and company response - 2013
- 📄 Mining Indaba 2014
- 📄 Amnesty, CEHRD report alleges manipulation of oil spill probes by Shell and Agip
- 📄 Berne Declaration report re oil trading & Nigeria - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Allegations of pharmaceutical group's planned opposition to So. Africa reforms to increase access to medicines
- 📄 So. Africa: Report that Chinese mining firm demanded workers waive rights
- 📄 "Are mining profits ethically earned?" - asks John Capel about Africa's mining industry [2012]
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Rapport du Centre pour l'Environnement & le Développement (Cameroun)
- 📄 Famine in the Horn of Africa - private sector response (2011)
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Report by Centre for Environment & Development (Cameroon)
- 📄 Marikana Commission of Inquiry into the Lonmin massacre
- 📄 Gibe 3 Dam impacts in Kenya & Ethiopia, and company responses - June 2011
- 📄 Human Rights Watch report on impacts of mining industry in Mozambique (May, 2013)
- 📄 So. Africa: One-year anniversary of massacre at Lonmin’s Marikana mine
- 📄 ActionAid report into tax avoidance by Associated British Foods in Zambia
- 📄 Sudan internet shutdown September 2013
- 📄 Alleged child labour in supply chain of Cargill, Barry Callebaut & Archer Daniels Midland in the Ivory Coast
- 📄 International Hydropower Association responses to concerns about partnership with Ethiopia - July 2011
- 📄 UNEP report re oil pollution in Niger Delta
- 📄 Lonmin mine deaths in South Africa - August 2012
- 📄 Procès COMILOG (Gabon)
- 📄 Ethiopia: "Unheard Voices" report re large-scale land acquisitions - 2013
- 📄 UNESCO suspends Obiang prize - NGO reactions
- 📄 Fidelity, Vanguard statements re genocide
- 📄 Letter to hotel chains regarding human trafficking at the World Cup & company responses
Asia Pacific
- 📄 Business and Human Rights in Southeast Asia
- 📄 Cambodia: Allegations of forced evictions at Borei Keila - Jan - Feb 2012
- 📄 China labour law reform
- 📄 Rana Plaza building collapse, April 2013
- 📄 Shwe gas & Myanmar-China oil transport projects (Apr-Jun 2013)
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign report "Cashing In" and company responses
- 📄 Harassment against Ed Cubelo, President of Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers’ Association
- 📄 The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh - one year on
- 📄 Myanmar: Thilawa Special Economic Zone – summary of impacts, company responses and updates
- 📄 Australia's banks investment in companies accused of land grab (Oxfam report, Apr 2014) - companies responses
- 📄 Human Rights Impact Assessment of Tampakan Copper-Gold Project, Mindanao, Philippines
- 📄 The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh - one year on
- 📄 Workshop on remedies for business-related human rights abuses (22 March 2014, Myanmar)
- 📄 Safety concerns with Dapeng LNG natural gas pipeline, running underground in downtown Shenzhen (2014)
- 📄 Alleged forced evictions at Porgera, Papua New Guinea - and Barrick Gold response
- 📄 Mining in the Philippines
- 📄 Birmanie & les entreprises
- 📄 Birmania y las empresas
- 📄 SACOM electronics report company responses 2007
- 📄 Shanxi brick factories
- 📄 National Labor Committee report "Nightmare on Sesame Street" & company responses
- 📄 National Labor Committee report on conditions for production of crucifixes - company responses
- 📄 Sidoarjo mud volcano
- 📄 Fortune China CSR
- 📄 National Labor Committee report & company responses
- 📄 "Mining in the Philippines – Mining or Food?" report & company responses/non-responses
- 📄 Burma 'Dirty List' & company responses
- 📄 Company contributions to Sichuan, China, earthquake relief (2008)
- 📄 Attacks near Freeport's Grasberg mine, West Papua, Indonesia - Jul 2009
- 📄 Angola - diamonds: Responses by diamond companies to report on abuses related to diamond mining in Cuango, Angola
- 📄 Burma Campaign report on insurance firms - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Burma: Kachin Development Networking Group calls for halt to Myitsone dam - Oct 2009
- 📄 SACOM Report re: Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages Sep 2009
- 📄 Google statement on China, and responses - Jan 2010
- 📄 Company contributions to hurricane relief in Cuba, Haiti, USA (2008)
- 📄 Evictions at Dey Krahorm in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- 📄 Burma and Business
- 📄 Company contributions to Burma cyclone relief (2008)
- 📄 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, 2 Dec 2009
- 📄 Cambodia: Crackdown on garment workers protesting for higher wages - Jan 2014
- 📄 Reports and statements on lawsuits filed by Natural Fruit against researcher and activist Andy Hall for alleged defamation
- 📄 Philippine Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda – company contributions to humanitarian aid (Nov 2013)
- 📄 "If not now, when?"
- 📄 Japan earthquake & tsunami - company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 Reports on worker complaint at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - May 2011
- 📄 Bangladesh garment companies' actions against labour leaders
- 📄 Pakistan Govt tender for an internet filtering and blocking system
- 📄 Resource Centre mission to Bangladesh, June 2011
- 📄 Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights report re alleged abuses at supplier factories in Bangladesh
- 📄 Porgera Joint Venture complaints mechanism for rape victims - MiningWatch concerns
- 📄 Indigenous & rights groups protest against Sarawak dam
- 📄 SACOM report re: ICTI CARE certification of Chinese toy factories - Feb 2011
- 📄 Concerns regarding Intex Resources' Mindoro Nickel Project in the Philippines, and company response
- 📄 Displacement of Boeung Kak residents (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) - August 2011
- 📄 Environmental record of Chinese banks & company responses - August 2011
- 📄 Chinese NGO Report on Apple, Jan 2011
- 📄 Foxconn suicides - 2010
- 📄 Pakistan Floods- company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 China Labor Watch report re alleged use of child labour in Samsung supplier factory
- 📄 Monywa copper mine protests - Burma, Sept 2012
- 📄 China Labor Watch submission to UN Working Group on business & human rights
- 📄 Nov 20, 2013 - 3-5pm in NYC: The Rana Plaza Disaster in Bangladesh: Taking Stock Half a Year On - And marking one year since the Tazreen factory fire
- 📄 "Cambodia Clean Sugar" campaign - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Cambodia: Resumption of forced evictions following government sub-decree - Sep 2011
- 📄 Killings - West Papua - October 2011
- 📄 Wintek workers' letters to Apple - Feb 2011
- 📄 Burma: Displacement, other concerns at Dawei (Tavoy) deep-sea port project - Jan 2011
- 📄 Japan's nuclear reactor crisis: TEPCO responsibility and impacts - Mar 2011
- 📄 Chevron response re environmental pollution trial in Ecuador
- 📄 Protests over the Bahrain Grand Prix 2012
- 📄 Laogai Research Foundation report - Jan 2011
- 📄 Call for oil companies to practice revenue transparency in Burma & company responses
- 📄 Company responses regarding NGO report on pollution by IT firms' suppliers in China
- 📄 Greenpeace report finds stockpiles of fertilizer waste hazardous to health near Chinese villages - companies invited to respond (Apr 2013)
- 📄 Gamma Intl. and internet monitoring concerns in Pakistan
- 📄 Letter from civil society groups to POSCO investors regarding steel project in Odisha, India - and company responses
- 📄 Fiji - Anti-union decree - 2011
- 📄 Shwe Gas Movement Report - September 2011
- 📄 Latest concerns re Apple supply chain - Jan-Feb 2012
- 📄 Chevron response re Burma
- 📄 SACOM Report - LOCOG’s Empty Promise to Respect Labour Rights: Olympic mascots made in sweatshops
- 📄 Asahi Kosei libel suit against Malaysian labour activist Charles Hector - June 2011
- 📄 Labour concerns at Winson Sturdy Products factory - August 2011
- 📄 Allegations of pollution in Apple's supply chain in China - Sep 2011
- 📄 Google ends its censorship in China - commentary, Mar 2010
- 📄 Cividep report on working conditions in mobile phone manufacturing plants in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India - and company responses
- 📄 Allegations regarding labour rights abuses at E-Garment factory in Cambodia
- 📄 Company responses/non-responses re impacts of planned InfraVest wind turbines in Yuanli, Taiwan
- 📄 The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project - and company responses
- 📄 Striking garment factory workers in Cambodia
- 📄 Ole Wolff allegations & responses
- 📄 SEPA water pollution report Oct 2006
- 📄 Microsoft statements re Internet censorship in China
- 📄 September 2009 EarthRights reports re Burma & company responses
- 📄 Vedanta response to ActionAid report "Vedanta Cares? Busting the myths about Vedanta’s operation in Lanjigarh, India"
- 📄 Barrick Gold response re Amnesty International concerns over forced evictions and police violence near Porgera mine, Papua New Guinea
Americas
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Deaths/injuries from explosion
- 📄 Know the Chain – See which companies do and do not have statements under the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2014)
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - General articles on lawsuits & legal issues
- 📄 US Govt. proposals for carbon emissions control on energy sector - 2014
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2014
- 📄 Coalition of Immokalee Workers campaign for Ahold to join Fair Food Program
- 📄 Toxic 100 & company responses - 2008
- 📄 Haiti earthquake - company contributions to humanitarian aid, Jan 2010
- 📄 Sitios web de las empresas
- 📄 Allegations of anti-union activities by Glencore, Unión Fenosa in Colombia, Aug 2007
- 📄 Allegations of spying by security guards for Yanacocha mine, Peru
- 📄 Alegaciones de espionaje e intimidación por parte de empresa Forza, quien presta seguridad a Yanacocha
- 📄 Mandé Norte/Murindó project, Colombia - 2009
- 📄 Global Horizons
- 📄 Alegaciones de anti-sindicalismo por parte de Glencore y Unión Fenosa en Colombia, agosto 2007
- 📄 NLC report re Chi Fung Factory - Feb 2010
- 📄 Allegations against Ford for abuses during the military dictatorship (1976-1983)
- 📄 US legal doctrines
- 📄 So. American flower farms
- 📄 Subsidizing Sweatshops report & company responses
- 📄 Concerns re working conditions at Monclova Internacional, Mexico
- 📄 Pereyra case, Ingenio Tabacal, Sep 2006
- 📄 Jordan factories
- 📄 Minera Dolores (Minefinders), Chihuahua, México - 2008
- 📄 Honduras: Investigation into World Bank's Intl. Finance Corporation investment in Corporación Dinant (Dec 2013)
- 📄 Vale accused of illegal spying on employees & infiltrating social & environmental movements
- 📄 Zijin Mining's Rio Blanco project -- reports on conflict & company responses, Apr 2011
- 📄 Gilead, AIDS Healthcare Foundation & access to medicines - 2011
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Livelihood
- 📄 Human Rights Assessment of Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in Guatemala
- 📄 Update on oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
- 📄 Report on Alianza Fashion factory in Guatemala & company responses
- 📄 Peaceful protesters against Excellon's La Platosa mine threatened with force (Aug-Sep 2012)
- 📄 Taller Internacional CME
- 📄 Allegations of lack of judicial integrity in Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador) - plaintiffs' lawyers respond // Alegaciones de faltas a la integridad judicial en el caso Chevron/Texaco en Ecuador - los abogados de los demandantes responden
- 📄 Informe de Oxfam: “Divide y comprarás: Una nueva forma de concentrar tierras baldías en Colombia"
- 📄 USA: Report raises concerns about IMO-certified Theo Chocolate's alleged anti-union activities
- 📄 Paraguay: Survival Intl. says Carlos Casado (part of Grupo San José) is destroying indigenous group's lands & calls on investors to take action
- 📄 Ocean Sky El Salvador - report on working conditions & company responses, Jan 2011
- 📄 Tufts University report on Goldcorp's Marlin mine in Guatemala
- 📄 Oil industry lobbying regarding section 1504 of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (USA): Concerns, company responses
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Health of cleanup workers
- 📄 DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
- 📄 Recent allegations of workplace discrimination against Muslims in USA
- 📄 NGO Reactions to defeat of C-300 (Canada) - Oct 2010
- 📄 Kiobel: US Supreme Court Review of Alien Tort Claims Act - Background Materials
- 📄 Extractives and Ethnic Rights in Colombia, 2012
- 📄 Deepwater Horizon explosion & spill: Coverage of first anniversary, Apr 2011
- 📄 US Supreme Court decision re Wal-Mart - analysis (Jun 2011)
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon exploision & oil spill Lawsuits - Health of residents
- 📄 Human Rights First letter and Vigeo statement re tech companies and US Govt's PRISM program - and company responses / non-responses
- 📄 Concerns about the impacts of oil projects on indigenous rights in NE Peru - responses by Perenco, Repsol
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Consolidated proceedings
- 📄 US Senate Internet freedom hearing - 2 Mar 2010
- 📄 US extractive industries transparency law - NGO responses
- 📄 Blackfire Exploration response re allegations of human rights abuses in connection with its mine in Chiapas, Mexico
- 📄 US Dodd-Frank law - SEC vote on extractive industry revenue transparency, Aug 2012
- 📄 Guatemala: San Rafael mine violence - Sep 2012
- 📄 Alleged death threats against protesters of wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012
- 📄 Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut - arms firms and investment in the arms industry
- 📄 Exchanges between Excellon Resources and ProDESC, Mexico, Sep-Oct 2013
- 📄 Statements by human rights groups on forced labour in Florida, USA - Dec 2008
- 📄 Mossville report - July 2007
- 📄 Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, Colombia, July 2008
- 📄 Terremoto en Haití - contribuciones de empresas a la ayuda humanitaria (enero, 2010)
- 📄 Burger King & tomato workers in Florida, USA
Europe and Central Asia
- 📄 Russian banks accused of funding pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine
- 📄 EU requirements on companies' non-financial reporting (2014)
- 📄 UK Joint Committee on Human Rights - Report on business & human rights
- 📄 UK Joint Committee on Human Rights - Inquiry on business & human rights
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign concerns re anti-union activity at Menderes Tekstil, Turkey
- 📄 Accusations des violations des droits du travail chez Menderes - réponses des grandes marques
- 📄 Lobbying on Armenia genocide bill in USA - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Death of Anita Roddick, 10 September 2007: Articles & tributes
- 📄 Howitt draft
- 📄 RusHydro dam disaster
- 📄 EJOLT workshop in Italy (Nov 2013)
- 📄 Access to Justice & Extractive Industries event (London, 13 March 2014)
- 📄 "Business and Human Rights: The Italian case"
- 📄 Greece: Locals continue to protest over environmental & social impacts of Eldorado Gold's mine in Halkidiki – company response provided
- 📄 Moscow - Saint Petersburg motorway project - 2011
- 📄 Friends of the Earth report alleging European banks fuel food price volatility & hunger
- 📄 Cotton Campaign calls for stronger commitment from H&M to rid supply chain of Uzbek child & forced labour
- 📄 Labour Behind the Label examines living wage payments to workers in supply chain
- 📄 SOMO report re Dutch financial institutions & food speculation
- 📄 Concerns over human rights abuses at hotels in Azerbaijan
- 📄 Resource Centre mission to Kazakhstan & Kyrgyzstan, May 2012
- 📄 Worker Rights Consortium report re alleged anti-union activities of Palermo's
- 📄 Human rights concerns related to May 2012 Eurovision Song Contest in Azerbaijan
- 📄 Conference of National Human Rights Institutions, Oct 2010
- 📄 Special event: Martyn Day & Paul Hoffman
- 📄 Concerns over human rights abuses at hotels in Azerbaijan
- 📄 UK corporate tax avoidance - 2012-2013
- 📄 UK Chancellor, George Osborne, pledges to help world's poor fight corporate tax abuse
Middle East and North Africa
- 📄 Human Rights in Jordan & Lebanon's Construction Sector
- 📄 Cairo meeting on business & human rights, 6 May 2014
- 📄 Iraq - Blackwater incident, 16 Sep 2007
- 📄 Egypt: Telecoms & internet blackout Jan-Feb 2011, and company responses
- 📄 Business and Human Rights in the Middle East, 11 Oct 2012, NYC
- 📄 New York, 11 Oct 2012: "Business and Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa"
- 📄 Norwegian Govt. decision to revoke exclusion of Africa Israel from pension fund (Aug 2013)
- 📄 Bahrain protests & links to business - 2012
- 📄 Western Sahara Resource Watch - Spectrum, San Leon, Longreach - 2011
- 📄 Human Rights First & OWNI Digital articles on surveillance technology & oppressive regimes
- 📄 Human rights concerns over 2013 Formula One Bahrain Grand Prix, April 2013
- 📄 Kraft responses re alleged anti-union activities in Egypt & Tunisia - Sep-Oct 2012
- 📄 Bahrain Watch: "PR Watch", company responses and non-responses
- 📄 EU Guidelines on Israeli settlements in Palestine
Ungrouped in-depth areas
- 📄 COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak
- 📄 Gender, Business & Human Rights
- 📄 Project CERLA
- 📄 Jordan garment sector: exploitation of migrant workers
- 📄 Maritime Industry
- 📄 Voices from Asia on business & human rights
- 📄 Business action
- 📄 Community-driven initiatives
- 📄 Browse by sector
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- 📄 Browse by region
- 📄 Chinese Investment Overseas: Guidance by government, business, civil society
- 📄 Training
- 📄 Major sporting events
- 📄 Binding treaty
- 📄 UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on business & human rights
- 📄 Right to Freedom of Association
- 📄 Sector-specific guidance
- 📄 Conflict & Peace
- 📄 Health - an introduction
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: NGOs & trade unions
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Universities, institutes & academics
- 📄 Complicity
- 📄 Displacement
- 📄 Right to food
- 📄 Living wage
- 📄 Housing
- 📄 Raising human rights issues with governments
- 📄 Access to medicines
- 📄 Development & poverty
- 📄 Environment
- 📄 Health & safety in the workplace
- 📄 Privacy
- 📄 Labour rights
- 📄 HIV/AIDS
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