A group of investors, an NGO, a think tank and an investor research agency...announce the launch of the first wide-scale project to rank companies on their human rights performance...Over the next three years the six organisations, making up the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) Steering Group, will conduct a worldwide consultation on the methodology and results with diverse stakeholders, and incrementally collect and release information on 500 companies’ human rights performance. Powerful information will be made available through an open source, online portal to empower the range of business and human rights advocates among companies, investors, governments, local communities and NGOs...[Includes quotes from Phil Bloomer, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; Steve Waygood, Aviva Investors; Bennett Freeman, Calvert Investments; Peter Webster, EIRIS; John Morrison, Institute for Human Rights and Business; Giuseppe van der Helm, VBDO; Amol Mehra, Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)]