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The Privacy Commissioner says facial recognition technology in supermarkets has potential safety benefits, despite raising ...
Opinion pieces, interviews and blogs from across the business and human rights movement. Explore the big challenges, ...
Individual fights like ours matter, but so do uniform mandatory legislative standards at all levels. This is why we advocate ...
Stories like Thangamal’s aren’t rare. Across Tamil Nadu’s garment factories, women are increasingly reporting heat-related ...
As this devastation continues, the spotlight is rightly turning to the private sector – particularly technology firms – for its alleged role in augmenting the suffering of a population under siege. As ...
The list below is divided into three chapters, based on the type of signatories: (a) financial and non-financial corporations and industry representatives; (b) civil society organisations; and (c) ...
The European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) entered into force in July 2024... The directive has been welcomed by a wide spectrum of business enterprises, ...
From fighting deforestation and illegal mining in the Amazon to raising concerns about the impacts of megaprojects in Mexico and protecting sacred Indigenous sites in Nicaragua, communities, workers ...
Climate change is the biggest risk to human rights. Meeting its challenge requires unprecedented roll-out of renewable energy projects across all regions in the coming years and decades. This ...
Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team.
The urgency to fight the climate crisis is driving a global scramble to extract the transition minerals required to power vast solar operations, wind farms, and transport electrification at enormous ...
Amid further escalations of attacks in Palestinian Gaza and the West Bank, technology companies are facing criticism for failing to address hate speech, misinformation, and disinformation which is ...