Resources in 'HRDD'

More than 370 votes were held last year, breaking a record for the third consecutive year, but shareholder support has been receding.

The year is off to a rapid start, bringing with it a continued need to focus on the unique role of the financial sector in advancing respect for human rights. Conversations at the 2024 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, the 12th UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, and COP28 all demonstrated the...

A slew of investor groups, including the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, the Principles for Responsible Investment, the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights similarly released a statement on Tuesday reiterating their support for...

The EU's due diligence directive will empower governments, stakeholders and investors to hold companies accountable, say Rebecca DeWinter-Schmitt and Richard Gardiner.

The race for renewable energy faces a major hurdle: Uyghur forced labor.

Co-authors Anti-Slavery International, the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Sheffield Hallam University, and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights have launched new investor guidance and a policy briefing advising more effective and proactive strategies to address systemic forced...

By Christen Dobson, Co-Head, Civic Freedoms & Human Rights Defenders Programme, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Twenty-five years ago, the landmark Declaration on Human Rights Defenders was adopted by the UN General Assembly reinforcing that we all have the right to defend human rights. It...

An open consultation took place at today’s Forum, as the UN Working Group prepares a report for June next year on how to align Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) approaches in the financial sector with the UN Guiding Principles. Speakers called on investors to themselves use a rightsholder...

Throughout the human rights and environmental due diligence process, businesses should meaningfully engage with actually and potentially affected stakeholders or their appointed representatives.