The 2nd Forum on Business and Human Rights opens in Geneva on 2nd December…With 1700 people registered, this is the largest-ever meeting on business and human rights issues…[At] the first parallel event…a group of PhD students present a research project on measuring business and human rights indicators…to advance the capacity of corporate stakeholders to measure the degree to which companies meet their responsibility to respect human rights…[T]he Danish Institute on Human Rights launches the human rights and business country guide project, which provides country specific guidance to protect human rights…Communities from Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, Africa and North America express their concerns at the increasing impacts of companies of the energy, oil and gas and extractive sectors on their land, culture and environment, and on their survival…The UN Global Compact launches the business reference guide on indigenous peoples' rights…