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This article identifies some of the key lessons that emerged from human rights snapshot assessments of companies in Denmark, Finland, Ireland and Belgium.

On 23 February 2022, the European Commission ("Commission") issued its long-awaited Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence to tackle human rights and environmental impacts across global value chains ("the Proposed Directive").1 The Proposed Directive would impose a corporate due diligence duty on large EU and third-country companies, and smaller companies in certain "high-risk" sectors, to identify and take steps to remedy actual and prevent or mitigate potential adverse impacts on human rights and the environment in the companies' own operatio

KnowTheChain benchmarks how companies implement policies and practices to eliminate one of the most egregious human rights abuses: forced labour. Over the past five years, KnowTheChain has assessed the efforts of the largest companies in the highest-risk sectors to prevent forced labour in their...

The implications of these delays are not just administrative – they have serious consequences. Since the beginning of 2020, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) has approached European companies over 600 times in response to allegations of human rights abuses, with 500 of those...

ECCJ's Dutch member MVO Platform welcomes the announcement by minister De Bruijn (D66) that the government will develop and introduce a national law on human rights and environmental due diligence.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre addressed this gap by approaching 65 companies with a request for them to disclose the estates and bought-leaf factories that they source their tea from, to be held centrally in the first Tea Transparency Tracker.

Today sees the launch of a landmark Code of Conduct and Self-Assessment Tool developed by IHRB and SSI with industry stakeholders to protect the human rights and welfare of the world’s nearly two million seafarers.

Nestlé hopes that a new interactive platform, Beneath the Surface, will give viewers better insight into the complexity of palm oil supply chains and insight into how choices they make under different scenarios can lead to a range of outcomes and consequences.

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre monitors national and regional developments towards mHREDD legislation. In 2021, mHREDD laws were passed in Germany and Norway, and similar laws are under consideration in the Netherlands and Finland.

What are 1,000 of the world’s most influential companies are doing to respect human rights, promote decent work and act ethically?

On December 16, 2021, Congress passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA or Act), the la

BALI, Indonesia — Palm oil industry watchdogs are warning of a possible surge in deforestation across Indonesia, after the government ended a three-year freeze on issuing permits for new plantations. The moratorium had been imposed in 2018, ostensibly to allow the industry to address the problems of deforestation, land conflicts and labor abuses long associated […]

In its latest report entitled "Seeds of Conflict", Global Witness shared the results of an investigation developed by the organization which revealed that three of the largest global commodity traders, ADM, Bunge, and Cargill, are allegedly trading soybeans from farmers linked to land conflicts...

A proposal for an EU-wide law is expected from the European Commission by the close of 2021. To support the inclusion of safe and effective stakeholder engagement, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Front Line Defenders, Indigenous Peoples Rights International & ProDESC, with the support of...

Developed with the Value Chain Innovation Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business, this video surveys the continued growth of sustainable procurement following the COVID-19 pandemic

PRESS RELEASE - The World Benchmarking Alliance has launched its Food and Agriculture Benchmark, the first assessment of the entire food value chain.