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Business-HumanRights.org (portal, Human Rights legal cases)

Organization: OnLine Resource
Facility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open

Address:
, WW 00000

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Main/General Business Number: +44 (20) 7636-7774
Website: http://www.business-humanrights.org/Home


Mission: from the website:

he Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has become the world’s leading independent resource on the subject. Our website is updated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide – positive and negative.

We seek responses from companies to allegations of misconduct: thus ensuring that our coverage is balanced and encouraging companies to address concerns raised by civil society.

The website covers over 4000 companies, over 180 countries. It receives over 1.5 million hits per month. Topics include discrimination, environment, poverty & development, labour, access to medicines, health & safety, security, trade.

Purpose

• To encourage companies to respect human rights, avoid harm to people, & maximise their positive contribution

• To provide easy, one-stop access to information for companies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and others, whether they are experienced or new to the subject

• To facilitate constructive, informed decision-making and public discussion

An international organization

The Resource Centre has offices in the UK and USA. We have regional researchers based in Hong Kong, India, South Africa and Ukraine - soon also in Senegal. See Staff for more details.

We plan to recruit further regional researchers in Latin America and the Middle East, who will bring under-reported concerns from those regions to international attention.

Status

The Resource Centre is an independent non-profit, in a collaborative partnership with Amnesty International sections and leading academic institutions.

- UK: Registered Charity in England & Wales (no. 1096664)

- USA: tax-exempt non-profit organisation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code

The website

The website links to a wide range of materials published by: NGOs; companies & business organisations; UN, ILO & other intergovernmental organisations; governments & courts; policy experts & academics; social investment analysts; journalists; etc.

The site contains materials in English, Spanish and French, and a few in Portuguese and German. We are currently expanding our coverage in non-English languages.

The United Nations, ILO, business organisations, NGOs and universities have, at their request, linked their websites to the Resource Centre site.

Client/Case Management Information
Contact Name:Christopher Avery, Director
EMail:avery@business-humanrights.org




This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

From their website:

Weekly Updates: including company responses to concerns

Our free Weekly Updates send the top stories on business & human rights to thousands of opinion leaders worldwide. We invite companies to include responses to reports that criticise their conduct. This keeps the Updates balanced, and encourages companies to publicly address important concerns being raised by civil society. Examples of cases featured in the Updates include:

- Angola: A report on serious abuses by security companies for diamond operations (with responses by the companies and follow-up by the report's author). Click here

- Companies receive awards for their contribution to the Millennium Development Goals. Click here

- China: Allegations that major banks were holding investments in a Chinese company using forced prison labour (with the banks’ responses and journalists’ follow-up). Click here

- So. Africa: Union hails car firms including DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, Volkswagen, Continental Tires for strong HIV/AIDS programmes. Click here

To subscribe to the Updates click here

Custom Alerts

Custom Alerts help you keep track of news and reports about companies and subjects of your choice. Subscribers receive an automatic email when we add an item to the website in one of their selected categories. For example Pfizer could choose to be alerted anytime an item is added about “Pfizer”, “Merck”, “Pharmaceutical“, “South Africa”, “Health” and/or “Access to Medicines”. Find out more here.

International network

Our International Advisory Network of over 80 experts is chaired by Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland.

Our Academic Partners are 20 institutions recognised internationally for their expertise in issues relevant to business and human rights.

UN Special Representative on business & human rights: web portal

The Resource Centre hosts a portal for John Ruggie, UN Special Representative on Business & Human Rights. The portal was set up at his request to facilitate communication and sharing of materials related to his mandate.

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Created At: Tue Oct 27 05:39:20 +0000 2009
Updated At: Tue Oct 27 05:39:20 +0000 2009
Updated By: tfri

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