By GBI Legal and Climate Advisor Catie Shavin The intersections between human rights and environmental risks are being discussed more widely than ever before – with a clear trajectory of change in legal and policy developments, reporting standards, benchmarking initiatives and stakeholder expectations.The connections between biodiversity and human rights have also come more sharply into focus due to increasing regulation, coupled with stakeholder, investor and media pressure. It’s an area where stronger and more widespread business practice is currently lacking. Greater efforts to identif ..read more

GBI is seeking a dynamic new Director for our Member Peer Learning programme who has expertise in international business and human rights standards and legal ..read more

On 18 October 2023, GBI CEO Ron Popper gave a keynote address to the Swiss Business and Human Rights Forum. The full speech is available below.    ..read more

Summary of activities by Sophia Areias, GBI Director With the support of the Swiss Embassy in India, the Swiss Consulate General in Mumbai, and the Swissnex in India, Swiss Consulate General in Bengaluru, GBI organised two workshops for business practitioners in Mumbai and Bengaluru on Engaging Suppliers in Human Rights Due Diligence. The workshops were focused on three challenges related to engaging suppliers in human rights due diligence: 1)  engaging with challenging suppliers; 2)  getting Beyond Tier 1 in human rights due diligence; and 3)  supplementing socia ..read more

On 6 June 2023, the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI), the Remedy Project and the UN Global Compact Network Thailand co-organised a Roundtable on ..read more

GBI Director Benn Hogan and GBI COO Jo Reyes recently published a Developments in the Field piece in the Business and Human Rights Journal on "Downstream Human ..read more

GBI Director Benn Hogan and GBI COO Jo Reyes recently published a Developments in the Field piece in the Business and Human Rights Journal on "Downstream Human ..read more

On 25 May 2023, the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI) and the Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CEBDS) co-organised a workshop for business practitioners on climate and human rights in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The workshop was aimed at better exploring how businesses can better address the human rights impacts in their responses to the climate crisis. This includes identifying, preventing and mitigating the human rights impacts of company strategies to mitigate or adapt to the climate crisis, as well as strategies to transition to zero carbon emi ..read more

On 25 May 2023, the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI) and the Conselho Empresarial Brasileiro para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável (CEBDS) co-organised a workshop for business practitioners on climate and human rights in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The workshop was aimed at better exploring how businesses can better address the human rights impacts in their responses to the climate crisis. This includes identifying, preventing and mitigating the human rights impacts of company strategies to mitigate or adapt to the climate crisis, as well as strategies to transition to zero carbon emi ..read more

 It is a truism that business activities and relationships can impact human rights at all stages of the value chain.In 2008, the late Professor John Ruggie’s "Protect, Respect and Remedy" Framework noted that the risk of a siloed approach to managing human rights risks within a company could lead to “inconsistent or contradictory actions”, including “product developers [who] may not consider human rights implications” and “sales or procurement teams [that] may not know the risks of entering into relationships with certain parties”.It is clear then, that human rights risks from the product ..read more