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  • ‘Protecting the vulnerable is the litmus test for stakeholder capitalism’

    Caroline Rees, (May 2, 2020)

    Comment: Caroline Rees of Shift says the pandemic has demonstrated that there is no longer ambiguity about what is expected by investors, public figures, civil society and business commentators

  • ‘Banks still only pay lip service to the UN Guiding Principles, with dire consequences’

    Ryan Brightwell, (Dec 6, 2019)

    BankTrack’s Ryan Brightwell says its latest human rights benchmark shows only ABN Amro can be considered a 'leader', while four out of five banks meet fewer than half of the benchmark’s requirements

  • It’s time for business leaders to raise their voices for human rights

    Kitrhona Cerri, (Nov 12, 2019)

    Kitrhona Cerri of World Business Council for Sustainable Development says Unilever’s Alan Jope and Microsoft’s Brad Smith are among 35 senior business executives that have responded to WBCSD’s call for companies to work together to drive transformational change in supply chains

  • ABN AMRO gets to grips with salience in second human rights report

    Mike Scott, (Aug 6, 2019)

    Mike Scott reports on how the Dutch bank is applying the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework to the company's impact on rights holders

  • ‘Time to end the farce about banks and client confidentiality’

    Ryan Brightwell, (Mar 27, 2019)

    Ryan Brightwell of BankTrack argues that people have the right to know who is financing companies that commit human and environmental rights abuses

  • ‘We have to make sure our clean-energy future is good for people, too’

    Eniko Horvath, (Oct 5, 2018)

    The renewable sector's dirty secret is that it is one of the worst performing on protecting community and worker rights. Eniko Horvath of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre gives five steps for companies to ensure their projects are as clean as the power they produce

  • 'We need better tools to evaluate how well business respects human rights'

    Caroline Rees, (Oct 4, 2018)

    Caroline Rees of Shift gives the first findings from Valuing Respect, a collaborative platform to come up with better ways to evaluate corporates’ efforts to safeguard human rights in their supply chains

  • 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

  • 'Charities should be held to the same human rights standards as business'

    John Morrison, (Feb 16, 2018)

    John Morrison, head of the Institute for Human Rights and Business, says the Oxfam crisis shows we should say 'no' to cuts in aid, but yes to greater accountability by charities

  • Refusing to dance with dictators

    Nadine Hawa, (Apr 27, 2017)

    ICT firms that operate in repressive regimes have to find a balance that respects the human rights of users and fulfills their legal obligation to respond to authorities’ lawful demands

  • Human rights: The business case for backing civil rights defenders

    Terry Slavin, (Nov 17, 2016)

    A new report from Charities Aid Foundation argues that companies can - and should - be at the vanguard of protecting human rights

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