4 days ago · As set out in the UN Guiding Principles, human rights due diligence is a process for identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for human rights impacts.This includes both actual impacts occurring in the present and potential impacts that could occur in the future. Human rights due diligence is not an end in itself, but a means to an end, which is respecting …

4 days ago · Annual Impact Report 2023/24. This year the Resource Centre’s Global Team, in over 30 locations worldwide, has worked to deliver solidarity for those facing repression, insights and propositions for those developing policy, and evidence for those seeking accountability – from repressive supply chains in Myanmar; to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, to the dispossession …

5 days ago · Introduction. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that requires each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every 4.5 years. The UPR provides each State the opportunity to regularly: Report on the actions it has taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and …

6 days ago · As Myanmar marks the fourth anniversary of the military coup, new research shows that factories supplying major high street fashion brands including H&M, Frasers Group, BESTSELLER (and its brand Vero Moda) and Reserved are linked with allegations of serious labour rights abuses.. 108 allegations of labour rights abuses linked to 80 international apparel …

3 days ago · On September 1, 2023, the "Act on Human Rights and Environmental Protection for Sustainable Business Management," the first mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (mHREDD) bill proposed in Asia, was proposed to congress by Representative Jung Taeho (Democratic Party of Korea, Gwanak-eul, Seoul) and Transnational Corporations …

5 days ago · "Report on the Human Rights and Environmental Impact of Taiwanese Businesses in Indonesia" 10 November 2024 [The report] examines labor violations in Indonesia by a Taiwanese garment manufacturer, Tainan Enterprises ( 台南企業 )...Pegatron ( 和碩 ) in the electronics sector...Walsin Lihwa Corporation ( 華新麗華 ) and Yieh Phui Enterprise ( 燁輝 ), both of which …

5 days ago · UPDATED 9:00 GMT 21 November 2022. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has been closely monitoring company activity and the private sector response to the rapidly changing situation.. Under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), in situations of …

4 days ago · ‘US measure would ban products containing mineral mined with child labor in DRC’ 3 July 2023. A measure has been introduced in the U.S. House to ban imported products containing minerals critical to electric vehicle batteries but mined through child labor and other abusive conditions in DR Congo.

6 days ago · KnowTheChain is a resource for companies and investors who need to understand and address forced labor risks within their supply chains. In 2020/2021 KnowTheChain benchmarked 180 companies in three sectors.. June 2020: The ICT benchmark provides an investor brief, findings report, and a recruitment brief.; October 2020: The food and beverage …

5 days ago · Updated: January 2024. Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (the Resource Centre) presents company 'dashboard' pages for technology companies around the world to provide workers, rights advocates, investors, and others easy-to-access information about company practices on human rights.. Each dashboard page includes company and financial …