Restoring the Beauty of the Game
By John Morrison, Executive Director, IHRB. For those that follow the human rights impacts of mega-sporting events it has been a busy couple of weeks. First came Amnesty International’s report on the...
View ArticleBriefing: Emerging Good Practices for the Kenyan NAP
This Briefing seeks to enrich the planning process for the Kenyan NAP by highlighting good practices. It is based on IHRB's own experiences in participating in a number of NAP processes around the...
View ArticleInvitation: 2nd Extractives Sector Forum - Stakeholder engagement in the...
IHRB's Nairobi Process and the Institute for Law and Environmental Governance (ILEG) will host the second Extractives Sector Forum on 20 April 2016. Wednesday, April 20th 2016 8.30am – 4.30pm IHRB's...
View ArticleInvitation: Companies & Climate Change - Legal Liability and Human Rights...
An official side event of Climate Action 2016, the first major international event on the implementation of the Paris Agreement since it was adopted by governments at COP21 in 2015. 5 May 2016,...
View ArticleBriefing: Forced Labour
This briefing is intended to provide companies, governments and others an overview of the human rights impacts around forced labour and some key steps and resources to prevent them. The global nature...
View ArticleBriefing: Recruitment Fees
This briefing is intended to provide companies, governments and others an overview of the human rights impacts facing migrant workers via the recruitment process and some key steps and resources to...
View ArticleEmployer Pays - Time for a New Model in Migrant Worker Recruitment
by Ed Potter, former Director of Global Workplace Rights at the Coca-Cola Company, IHRB Board Member and Chair of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment. Over 30 years in addressing supply...
View ArticleThe Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment
A collaboration between five leading global companies and expert organisations, the Leadership Group will work towards a new business model in migrant worker recruitment. The Coca-Cola Company, HP...
View ArticleVoices: Richard Boele
For more than two decades, Boele has advised companies dealing in natural resources, retail, and property on human rights and social impacts. Recently he spoke to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the...
View ArticleMega-Sporting Events and the Asia Forum on Business & Human Rights
IHRB took part in a range of sessions at the 1st UN Asia Forum on Business & Human Rights in Doha, Qatar from 19-20 April 2016. This series offers a brief recap of two sessions IHRB moderated on...
View ArticleCentral banks and human rights: Signs of alignment
by Motoko Aizawa, Managing Director, IHRB USA. This commentary was originally published on RightingFinance and reproduced here with permission. The work of central banks is not easily understood and...
View ArticleBriefing: Emerging Good Practices for the Kenyan NAP
This Briefing seeks to enrich the planning process for the Kenyan NAP by highlighting good practices. It is based on IHRB's own experiences in participating in a number of NAP processes around the...
View ArticleBusiness Briefing on Responsible Recruitment - 28th June, London
IHRB and Verité, in partnership with ETI and SEDEX, are convening a business briefing on responsible recruitment. The event will address this emerging issue and provide a forum to discuss risks,...
View ArticleVoices: Michael Sandel
For more than two decades, Boele has advised companies dealing in natural resources, retail, and property on human rights and social impacts. Recently he spoke to IHRB's Salil Tripathi about the...
View ArticleInvitation: The UN Guiding Principles 5-Year Anniversary Event
IHRB and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) are pleased to invite you to the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights Five-Year Anniversary Event Reflections on...
View ArticleTime to deliver on responsible supply chain commitments
by Scott Jerbi, Senior Advisor for Policy & Outreach, IHRB. As G7 leaders meet in Japan later this week, will we see scaled up joint action to ensure that all business activity, wherever it takes...
View ArticleForthcoming Guidance on Respecting LGBTI Rights
by Salil Tripathi, IHRB. The idea of human rights rests on the central premise that all humans are equal. It follows that all humans should be treated as equal, and all humans have dignity. Anything...
View ArticleVoices: Kathryn Dovey
Kathryn Dovey is the manager for National Contact Point (NCP) coordination at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris. Kathryn Dovey is the manager for National...
View ArticleReport: In Search of Policy Coherence - Aligning OECD Infrastructure Advice...
In a continuing effort to foster coherence among economic, social and environmental policies, the Heinrich Böll Foundation engaged IHRB to review key OECD deliverables to the G20 as they relate to...
View ArticleThe Infrastructure We Don’t Want: OECD Infrastructure Advice to the G20
by Motoko Aizawa, Managing Director, IHRB USA, and Nancy Alexander, Heinrich Boell Foundation-North America. This commentary was originally published on the Heinrich Böll Foundation website. As...
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