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 ...

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.

In an era of heightened public scrutiny, companies which regress on gender and equity risk becoming targets of boycotts, bad ...

Five years ago, BP set some of the most ambitious targets among large oil companies to cut production of oil and gas by 40% ...

"In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples", 25 February 2025. Brazil’s ...

EU: European human rights body rules Facebook algorithms enable gender discrimination in job ads; incl. co. comment Opinion ...

"UN expert launches Guiding Principles on Sanctions, Business and Human Rights," 25 February 2025 The Special Rapporteur on ...

Food companies Nestlé and Unilever and cosmetics company l'Oréal distanced themselves from many of the objections their fellow multinationals raised in the pages before against the only ...

Opinion pieces, interviews and blogs from across the business and human rights movement. Explore the big challenges, ...

On January 26, the Council of the European Union formalised its position on banning the introduction of products made using forced labour on the EU’s internal market. The position assigns the ...

Between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (the Resource Centre) recorded 665 cases of alleged abuse of migrant workers globally in our Migrant Worker ...