All Articles About Human Rights

BSR Insight Article: New Online Forum for UN Business and Human Rights Mandate

Faris Natour, Director, Human Rights

UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights John Ruggie has launched an online forum for companies and other stakeholders to provide input as Ruggie develops guiding principles to operationalize the UN "Protect, Respect, Remedy" framework. The framework is composed of three pillars: the state duty to protect against human rights abuses, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and greater access to effective remedy for victims of corporate-related abuses. Read more →

Posted: December 15, 2009 | Topics: Human Rights

BSR Insight Article: New Online Forum for UN Business and Human Rights Mandate

Faris Natour, Director, Human Rights

UN Secretary-General's Special Representative on Business and Human Rights John Ruggie has launched an online forum for companies and other stakeholders to provide input as Ruggie develops guiding principles to operationalize the UN "Protect, Respect, Remedy" framework. The framework is composed of three pillars: the state duty to protect against human rights abuses, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and greater access to effective remedy for victims of corporate-related abuses. Read more →

Posted: December 15, 2009 | Topics: Human Rights

BSR Insight Article: A Visit to Saudi Arabia: Key Trends in CSR and Human Rights

On our recent trip to Saudi Arabia, we received a refresher lesson on globalization as soon as we stepped off the plane. In this conservative country steeped in Arab and Muslim history and tradition, all the big American and European retail chains are well represented, and you can neatly divide the young professionals into Blackberry and iPhone camps. One of our business meetings even began with a question about whether we had seen a recent edition of Oprah. More importantly, we found that another core element of globalization—corporate social responsibility (CSR) —is increasingly viewed as a key driver for global competitiveness of Saudi business. Read more →

Posted: December 15, 2009 | Topics: Human Rights, Labor Migration, Strategy & Integration, Supply Chain

Report: Can Women Solve the World’s Woes? A Q&A with 'Half the Sky' authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Racheal Meiers (née Yeager), Director, HERproject

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn—authors of a new book about how to turn oppression into opportunity for women—talk with us about what they say is the key to economic progress: investing in women and girls. Read more →

Posted: December 11, 2009 | Topics: Economic Development, Human Rights, Supply Chain, Women & Sustainability | Download (PDF)

BSR Insight Article: Mary Robinson Calls on Companies to Issue Human Rights Statements

By Nikki Weston

Now through the end of June 2010, Realizing Rights, a human rights organization headed by Mary Robinson—the former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights—is encouraging major companies to adopt a formal human rights policy statement, which will be posted on the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre's website. Read more →

Posted: December 8, 2009 | Topics: Human Rights, Reporting & Communications, Strategy & Integration