I am not going anywhere fast – I have committed to the Board to stay as Executive Director until our Board has recruited and inducted the next Executive Director. Our Board has established a ...

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.

We have applied our human rights tests to the UK's post-Brexit Free Trade Agreements, revealing significant gaps in human rights protections. This presents an opportunity for the UK to set a new trade ...

In December 2021, it was reported that more than 400,000 garment workers in Karnataka, India, had been receiving wages below the legal minimum at more than 1,000 factories since April 2020. Since the ...

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, ...

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 ...

"The increasing demand for transition minerals will deeply affect the global workforce and the very fabric of our societies – and risks further entrenching global inequalities. This year Tracker’s ...

In an order issued on 11 February 2021 in the climate litigation against Total, the Nanterre civil court dismissed the jurisdictional objection raised by the oil company, which requested that the ...

The EU’s ambitious Sustainable Finance and Corporate Sustainability policy agendas are establishing the contours of an ecosystem of regulation with the potential to substantially scale up respect for ...

A new report produced by the Walk Free initiative of Minderoo Foundation, in partnership with Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, WikiRate, and Australian National University assesses 71 hotel ...

Momentum is growing for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD), with companies and investors lining up alongside civil society, workers, governments and unions to call for ...

March 2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The invasion lasted until 2011, with nearly half a million people estimated to have been killed as a result of the war. During the ...