Explore our library of useful member resources, including implementation toolkits, deep-dive topic briefings and reports, and other valuable content from our global team of sustainability experts. You can also access past video recordings of BSR webinars and events that you may have missed.
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Tools
Human Rights
Modern Slavery Legislative Overview
Proposal for EU Trade Instrument to Ban Products made with Forced Labor
A dive into the potential and ongoing impacts of the EU's Force Labor Product Ban Proposal.
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Reports
Human Rights
AI and Human Rights in Financial Services
Financial institutions are increasingly using AI technologies, from reducing operational costs to delivering customer service. Yet this evolution may bring human rights risks—as well as opportunities—that companies can’t ignore.
This report identifies human rights issues associated with the growing importance of AI technology to financial services and provides recommendations to companies on addressing these impacts.
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Reports
Human Rights
AI and Human Rights in Extractives
AI is driving change within the extractives sector, potentially leading to major human rights impacts throughout company operations, from geologic risk analysis to workplace management.
This report identifies human rights issues associated with increased use of AI in extractives companies and provides recommendations on addressing these impacts.
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Events
Human Rights
Generative AI and Human Rights, Presented by BSR’s Human Rights Working Group
Webinar / June 27, 2023 / 11:00 am-12:00 pm EDT
This is a follow-up to an in-person event on the same topic taking place in London on June 22.
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Events
Human Rights
Generative AI and Human Rights: The Long-term View
London, UK / June 22, 2023 / 5:00 pm-7:30 pm BST
Join us to explore the potential impacts of new AI technologies on human rights and what this means for companies.
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Tools
Human Rights
European Commission CSDDD, Member Briefing
Updated, June 2023. BSR member-only brief on the European Commission's Proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD).
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Tools
Human Rights
Due Diligence Legislation Developments in Europe, Member Briefing
Updated, June 2023
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Reports
Human Rights
AI and Human Rights in Retail
Explore human rights issues associated with the increased use of AI technology in the retail sector and recommendations to companies on how they can address the human rights impacts of AI in retail in BSR's new report.
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Tools
Human Rights
Human Rights Policy Review Tool
A tool that helps companies review their human rights policies, structured around minimum requirements and leading practice.
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Tools
Human Rights
Modern Slavery Member Briefing
An overview of modern slavery, from emerging frameworks to company involvement through individual corporate and collective action.
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Tools
Human Rights
Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas Risk Tool
A tool that identifies countries prone to conflict and high human rights risks, focused on conflict and fragile states/areas.
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Tools
Human Rights
Human Rights Grievance Mechanism Gap Assessment Tool
A tool designed to assess grievance mechanisms against the eight “Effectiveness Criteria” in the UNGPs.
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Tools
Human Rights
Human Rights Strategy Development
Guidance on design and implementation of human rights strategies and best practices from companies.
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Tools
Human Rights
Human Rights Governance Structures
Guidance on the elements of human rights governance, featuring example structures and company insights.
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Reports
Human Rights
Conflict-Sensitive Human Rights Due Diligence for ICT Companies
Guidelines and Toolkit for Corporate Human Rights Practitioners
This toolkit provides analytical and operational decision-making guidance for tech companies on navigating conflict-related issues.
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Events
Human Rights
How to Integrate a Human Rights Approach in the Financial Sector’s ESG Efforts in Latin America?
Webinar / November 21, 2022 / 10:00 am-11:00 am EST
BSR and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) are pleased to invite you to join an event on Monday, November 21st at 10:00 AM (EST) to discuss how financial actors based and/or operating in Latin America can integrate a human rights approach in their ESG efforts.
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Events
Human Rights
The Evolving Children’s Rights and Business Agenda: Exploring Challenges and Opportunities Ahead
Webinar / November 17, 2022 / 3:30 pm-4:30 pm Singapore Standard Time
Join us to explore why and how children’s rights should be integrated in human rights and environmental due diligence.
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Sustainability FAQs
Human Rights
Climate Change and People
This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the relationship between climate change and people.
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Sustainability FAQs
Human Rights
Human Rights Assessment
This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on human rights assessments. We believe that identifying and prioritizing the actual and potential human rights impacts with which a company may be involved is a first critical step in avoiding, preventing, and mitigating harm to people associated with business activity.
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Events
Human Rights
Human Rights in Manufacturing: Developing Your Strengths
Webinar / September 26, 2022 / 8:00 am-9:00 am PDT
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Primers
Human Rights
Human Rights Priorities for the Beauty and Personal Care Sector
Explore the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for businesses operating in the beauty and personal care sector.
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Food, Beverage, and Agriculture Sector
Learn about the 10 most pertinent, urgent, and likely human rights impacts for businesses operating in the food, beverage, and agriculture (FBA) sector.
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Luxury Sector
This issue brief identifies the 10 most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for businesses operating in the luxury sector. The information here is gathered from BSR’s direct engagement with luxury sector companies, as well as our 30 years of experience helping companies in all sectors manage their human rights risks.
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Industrial Manufacturing Sector
BSR is publishing a brief on the most urgent human rights impacts for the industrial manufacturing sector and opportunities for positive impact.
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Reports
Human Rights
Human Rights Assessment of the Software-as-a-Service Sector
SaaS services address numerous business needs, and they are behind many of the consumer-facing products and platforms we use every day. This report identifies salient human rights risks and makes recommendations to SaaS providers on how to avoid, prevent, and mitigate adverse human rights impacts associated with their individual services and the sector as a whole.
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Reports
Human Rights
Corporate Action to End Gun Violence
BSR’s Toolkit for Corporate Action to End Gun Violence was developed in collaboration with Everytown for Gun Safety. Gun violence is a national issue in the US. Due to the pervasiveness of gun violence, businesses, their employees, business partners, and customers are all likely to have been impacted by the issue at some point. While many companies see the issue of gun violence as falling outside their sphere of responsibility and influence, companies can and should take action to protect their employees, consumers, and the communities they operate in.
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Reports
Human Rights
Human Rights Assessments: Identifying Risks, Informing Strategy
According to the UNGPs, companies should identify and assess any actual or potential adverse human rights impacts to gauge human rights risks. BSR shares its human rights assessment methodology to help with this important first step of human rights due diligence.
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Reports
Human Rights
Climate Change: Building Resilience While Protecting Human Rights
This report explores the intersection between climate and human rights and makes recommendations on taking first steps to create long-term, resilient business strategies that address human rights impacts related to physical climate impacts as well as the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Reports
Human Rights
Access to Remedy
After 10 years of implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), companies are increasingly expected to address the harms they have caused or contributed to through their business relationships. This brief explains what effective remedy is, the role of business, and five recommendations for companies to improve access.
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Reports
Human Rights
Addressing Forced Labor and other Modern Slavery Risks: A Toolkit for Corporate Suppliers
The Global Business Coalition against Human Trafficking (GBCAT) has released a new toolkit that aims to help businesses that work in corporate supply chains to quickly identify areas of the business which carry the highest risk of modern slavery and develop a plan to identify, prevent, and address risks.
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Reports
Human Rights
Human Rights Due Diligence of Products and Services
Assessing the Downstream Value Chain
We can see and feel the human rights impacts of products and services. This issue brief explains downstream human rights due diligence, why it’s important, coming advancements, and how to get started.
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Reports
Human Rights
Seven Questions to Help Determine When a Company Should Remedy Human Rights Harm under the UNGPs
How can companies determine whether they have caused, contributed, or are directly linked to an adverse impact through their business relationships? A new white paper explores seven questions to help companies determine their connection to negative impacts and how to reframe these questions to identify appropriate actions to prevent and mitigate potential adverse human rights impacts that may occur in the future.
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Healthcare Sector
An issue brief on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the healthcare sector and opportunities for positive impact.
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Tools
Human Rights
Rapid Human Rights Due Diligence
The BSR tool guides companies through human rights due diligence in situations when very little time is available. The tool also makes specific reference to the Siracusa Principles, adopted by the UN Economic and Social Council in 1984, which describe limitations on the restriction on human rights that governments may apply for reasons of public health or national emergency.
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Reports
Human Rights
Making Women Workers Count
A Framework for Conducting Gender Responsive Due Diligence in Supply Chains
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Reports
Human Rights
Climate and Human Rights
This report explores the intimate connection between climate resilience and human rights and outlines how companies can address this nexus.
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Reports
Human Rights
Artificial Intelligence: A Rights-Based Blueprint for Business
Artificial intelligence (AI)—and the big data business models underpinning it—is disrupting how we live, work, do business, and govern. We have published three papers describing a human rights-based blueprint for responsible business practice with regard to AI, both within and beyond the technology sector.
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Extractives Sector
A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the extractives sector and opportunities for positive impact
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Transport and Logistics Sector
An issue brief on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the transport and logistics sector and opportunities for positive impact
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Power and Utilities Sector
This primer lays out the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the power and utilities sector and opportunities for positive impact.
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Primers
Human Rights
10 Human Rights Priorities for the Financial Sector
A primer on the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the financial sector and opportunities for positive impact
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