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  • Mining firms ‘failing to get to grips with worsening water security crisis’

    Catherine Early, (Nov 8, 2020)

    The sector is facing increasing demand to supply raw materials needed for the energy transition, but its license to operate is threatened by increasing water demand and pollution. Catherine Early reports

  • 'Companies that pay attention to people in their supply chains will lead the recovery from Covid-19'

    Pauliina Murphy, (Jun 18, 2020)

    Comment: Pauliina Murphy of the World Benchmarking Alliance says hitting the pause button on the global economy has highlighted societal demands for more transparency from companies on their social, economic and environmental sustainability

  • Why 176 institutional investors are calling out brands for failure to respect human rights

    Camille Le Pors, (Apr 2, 2020)

    Canon, Carlsberg, Ralph Lauren and Starbucks are among 95 companies that are being pressed by investors worth $4.5tn to take prompt action to respect the rights of workers and communities, say Camille Le Pors of the World Benchmarking Alliance and Paloma Munoz Quick of the Investor Alliance for Human Rights

  • ‘The clock is ticking on holding companies accountable for delivering the SDGs’

    Paul Druckman, (Jan 2, 2020)

    Paul Druckman of the World Benchmarking Alliance explains his organisation's mission to provide the first free, transparent and publicly available tools to assess companies' performance towards meeting the UN Global Goals

  • 'We need companies to promote social protectionism in the coming trade wars’

    John Morrison, (Jan 2, 2020)

    John Morrison of the Institute for Human Rights and Business argues that initiatives to safeguard both environment and human rights will be critical for the radical transformations that will be required in decade ahead

  • ‘Do we need a Paris Agreement on social issues to get companies to take them seriously?’

    Mike Scott, (Aug 6, 2019)

    With transparency on human rights lagging climate change in corporate reporting, Mike Scott looks at the rising reputational, legal and brand risks, and some of the companies that are leading the way

  • ‘Open Apparel Registry is a powerful new tool shining a light on the garment industry’

    Phil Bloomer, (May 10, 2019)

    Phil Bloomer and Alysha Khambay of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre explain how the open-source map of garment facilities across the globe is helping human rights campaigners to respond quickly to abuse in supply chains

  • Vale suspended from Corporate Human Rights Benchmark over dam disaster

    Terry Slavin, (Feb 1, 2019)

    Terry Slavin reports on the fallout from Brazil's latest deadly mining accident and investor calls for an global independent body to monitor mines from a group led by the Church of England Pensions Board

  • A year of straddling the fault lines on human rights

    John Morrison, (Dec 18, 2018)

    John Morrison of the Institute for Human Rights and Business says 2018 saw business find common cause with civil society on fundamentals such as rule of law and freedom of expression

  • US companies perform twice as badly as Europeans on human rights ranking

    Terry Slavin, (Nov 15, 2018)

    Starbucks and Kraft Heinz are among a dubious roll call of American firms that scored less than 10% on the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, where Germany’s Adidas took first place

  • New human rights ranking shows most firms have barely left the starting line

    Phil Bloomer, (Nov 11, 2018)

    Phil Bloomer of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre assesses the results of the 2018 Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and finds that while there has been welcome progress among a small group of leaders, the vast majority of companies are content to under-perform

  • Comment: ‘Benchmarking has started a race to the top on human rights reporting’

    Magdalena Kettis, (May 18, 2018)

    The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark has led to a surge in human rights reporting since it was launched a year ago, but the failure of more than a quarter of companies to engage is cause for deep concern, says Magdalena Kettis of Sweden’s Nordea Bank

  • Top stories of 2017: #5 Focus sharpens on human rights in supply chains

    Nadine Hawa, (Dec 13, 2017)

    Nadine Hawa charts a momentous year, including the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and UNGP assurance guide, new stakeholder alliances, the spread of disruptive technology and France's due dilligence law

  • Analysis: Human rights – New benchmark to rank companies on human rights performance

    Nadine Hawa, (Jan 14, 2015)

    Index will rank companies on human rights in effort to drive better performance

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