Nike is facing a new wave of anti-sweatshop protests
On July 29, students and activists around the world participated in a day of protest against Nike, organized by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The demonstrations, in cities such as Boston, Washington D.C., Bangalore, and San Pedro Sula in Honduras, represented an escalation of allegations against Nike that have been slowly bubbling up.
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HRDs’ work is essential to the business and human rights movement because of their critical importance for ensuring corporate responsibility and accountability. Yet, attacks on them are growing. This hub brings together news on these advocates and communities - specifically on land, environmental and labour defenders, guidance for companies ...
Annual impact report 2021/22 - Business & Human Rights …
In June 2021, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre released Digging in the Shadows, an analysis of the human rights policies and performance of the largest extractives projects in Armenia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. The report found serious allegations around violence and killings, labour rights violations, environmental destruction ...
While Nestlé extracts millions of litres from their land, residents ...
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Conflict minerals - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Oct 1, 2024 · Conflict minerals could be in any of the electronics you use. Certain minerals (including tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold) have been linked with funding killings, violence, rape, and other human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo and other conflict zones. These minerals can enter multinational companies' supply chains, and are ...
Strategic Plan - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Apr 14, 2021 · Strategic Plan. Since our founding in 2002, the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has played a constructive role at the heart of the global business and human rights movement. Current conditions in this and the next decade encourage us to continue working for the advancement of human rights in societies and seizing opportunities and ...
Annual impact report 2020/21 - Business & Human Rights …
Since 2014 the Resource Centre has been highlighting the urgent need for a fair and fast transition to clean energy. In 2020 we published the first-ever human rights benchmark of renewable energy companies. The scores were dreadful (average of 22%), but this has been a wake-up call to more responsible companies, and investors, regarding abuse ...
15 case studies of businesses addressing human rights impacts …
Jul 5, 2018 · "The Human Rights Opportunity 15 real-life cases of how business is contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals by putting people first", Shift’s “The Human Rights Opportunity” offers 15 practical examples of how companies and multi-stakeholder initiatives are aiming to address human rights impacts and, at the same time, are showing great promise in delivering significant ...
Supreme Court throws out child slavery lawsuit against Nestle, …
Jun 30, 2021 · The Supreme Court on Thursday threw out a lawsuit alleging that the food companies Nestle and Cargill aided and abetted child slavery in the Ivory Coast.
Modern Slavery - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
The recent growth of modern slavery can be connected to a number of geopolitical issues, including: increasing poverty and inequality, global conflicts and the consequent large scale population movements, as well as consumer demand for ever more things at lower cost. Our reports and analyses have highlighted the limits of transparency-based ...