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An overview of modern slavery, the relevant legislative trends and regulations, a brief analysis of responsible recruitment, and an introduction to BSR’s service offerings to address modern slavery. 

Human Rights

Updated: April 2024. A tool that identifies countries prone to conflict and high human rights risks, focused on conflict and fragile states/areas.

Human Rights

This briefing provides an overview of business implications and recommended actions related to Myanmar’s military conscription law.

Human Rights

Explore BSR's presentation on the main human rights issues raised by AI with a particular focus on financial services sector impacts. It highlights key regulatory trends, actions other companies are taking, and high-level recommendations.

Technology, Human Rights, Financial Services

The following worksheet has been compiled based on BSR’s Supplier Code of Conduct Review tool. The best practices listed are compiled based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights as well as leading guidance from the Responsible Business Alliance.

Supply Chain, Human Rights

International humanitarian law—which applies in situations of armed conflict and war—creates additional areas of heightened risk for companies operating in such contexts, necessitating a heightened level of due diligence. This short briefer provides an overview of these risks and actions to both prepare for and respond to crisis in a rights-respecting way.

Human Rights

Challenges, recommendations, and best practices related to human rights abuse and remedy.

Human Rights

This FAQ sets out BSR’s perspective on generative AI and its implications for ethics and human rights.

Human Rights, Technology

A dive into the potential and ongoing impacts of the EU's Force Labor Product Ban Proposal.

Human Rights

This memo provides a brief overview of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Azerbaijan, including background on the history of conflict and timeline of events, as well as resources and recommendations for response aligned with international human rights standards. This memo follows outreach by civil society alerting BSR to the crisis, the role of business, and potential connections to gross human rights violations. It includes information that companies might anticipate seeing in the media or hearing from civil society in the near term.

Human Rights

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.

Financial Services, Human Rights

Updated, June 2023

Sustainability Management, Sustainability Reporting, Human Rights

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.

Consumer Products, Human Rights, Technology

A tool that helps companies review their human rights policies, structured around minimum requirements and leading practice.

Human Rights

An overview of modern slavery, from emerging frameworks to company involvement through individual corporate and collective action.

Human Rights

A tool designed to assess grievance mechanisms against the eight “Effectiveness Criteria” in the UNGPs.

Human Rights

Guidance on design and implementation of human rights strategies and best practices from companies.

Human Rights

Guidance on the elements of human rights governance, featuring example structures and company insights.

Human Rights, Governance

This toolkit provides analytical and operational decision-making guidance for tech companies on navigating conflict-related issues.

Human Rights, Technology

This FAQ sets out the BSR perspective on the relationship between climate change and people. 

Climate Change, Human Rights

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.

Human Rights

Explore the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for businesses operating in the beauty and personal care sector.

Human Rights, Consumer Products

By understanding human rights risks and impacts across the food, beverage, and agriculture supply chain, companies can better mitigate potential negative effects and advance human rights for all.

Food, Beverage, and Agriculture, Human Rights

The luxury sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities. While each has its own human rights profile and challenges, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for companies operating in this sector. 

Consumer Products, Human Rights

Explore the most urgent human rights impacts for the industrial manufacturing sector as well as opportunities for companies in this sector.

Human Rights, Industrials

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.

Technology, Human Rights

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.

Human Rights

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.

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.

Human Rights, Climate Change

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.

Human Rights

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.

Supply Chain, Human Rights, Collaboration

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.

Human Rights

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.

Human Rights

In recent years, society’s expectations for the biopharmaceutical industry to advance the right to health has broadened. Gathered from BSR’s direct engagement with pharma companies, we share the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the healthcare sector.

Healthcare, Human Rights

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.

Human Rights

Women’s Empowerment, Supply Chain, Human Rights

This report explores the intimate connection between climate resilience and human rights and outlines how companies can address this nexus.

Human Rights, Climate Change

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.

Technology, Sustainability Management, Human Rights

The extractives sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for companies operating in this sector. 

Human Rights, Energy and Extractives

Based on interviews with member companies operating in the Transport and Logistics sector, BSR shares the 10 most relevant human rights impacts for such businesses.

Human Rights, Transport and Logistics

Learn about the most relevant, urgent, and probable human rights impacts for the power and utilities sector, as well as opportunities that companies can take to make positive impact.

Energy and Extractives, Human Rights

The financial sector comprises a wide range of businesses and activities, each with its own human rights profile and challenges. In this primer, BSR shares universal human rights risks and opportunities for financial services companies. 

Human Rights, Financial Services