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2024年12月16日 · As pressure to extract transition minerals ramps up, meaningful engagement with mining-affected rights-holders must be a core feature of state and corporate commitments to a just energy transition - one that is built on fair negotiations and true access to information, respect for human and environmental rights and shared prosperity.
Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
5 天之前 · 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 human rights and ...
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UN Guiding Principles - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to prevent, address and remedy human rights abuses committed in business operations. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights are a set of guidelines for States and companies to ...
UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights presents …
2024年12月17日 · 'The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: guidance on ensuring respect for human rights defenders Report of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises', 28 June 2021
Latest from the UN Business and Human Rights Forum 2024
2024年11月27日 · The 13th annual UN Business and Human Rights Forum takes place from 25 to 27 November in Geneva, and is the world's largest annual gathering on business and human rights with more than 2,000 participants.. Our team is reporting live throughout the event with a series of audio posts giving our perspective on conversations and issues arising – but even more importantly, we’re also speaking ...
UN Business and Human Rights Treaty Negotiations
Timeline HRC52: Next steps toward a binding treaty on business and human rights Date: 3 Apr 2023 Content Type: Article "Updates on the binding treaty process on business and human rights led by the open-ended intergovernmental working group (OEIGWG) have been presented to the Human Rights Council.
UN Treaty Process on Business and Human Rights: Further …
2024年12月8日 · Human rights are a high priority for the international business community. BIAC, ICC, IOE, and WBCSD and their millions of member companies around the world have been engaged in this subject for many years...As part of this ongoing activity, BIAC, ICC, IOE, and WBCSD and their members have constructively participated in the work of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IWG).
Modern Slavery - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
2024年12月16日 · According to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) around 40 million men, women and children around the world are victims of modern slavery: 24.9 million are in forced labour of which an estimated 16 million are in forced labour in the private economy. The illicit profit estimated by the ILO is $150 billion a year, much of it in corporate supply chains.
Labour Rights - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Rush to renewables: Toward migrant worker rights and a just energy transition in the Gulf. This analysis by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and Equidem establishes how the renewable energy sector risks falling woefully short in identifying and mitigating risks to migrant workers' rights, even as it expands at pace in the Gulf region - a region ranking among the lowest on all human ...