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A number of recent events, including this week’s Associated Press’ report linking Thai shrimp producers – such as those that ship to popular U.S. grocery stores and restaurants –  to slave labor, recent decisions by large publicly traded companies to establish corporate human...

Each year, the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) releases a list of what they consider the top issues in the field of business and human rights for that coming year. This year is no exception and the BHRRC has announced that the list for 2016 will be released in...

Today, human rights investigators have unprecedented access to information. Access to government archives, corporate information and a range of data on people around the world abound. In recent years, human rights activists have also turned to satellite imagery as another means...

Recently the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced an updated, second version of their Toolkit, Addressing Security and Human Rights Challenges in Complex Environments. Human Analytics...

On June 24, the Swiss government published a detailed decree relating to the Swiss law on Private Security Companies (PSCs) and announced that it will go into effect on September 1, 2015. The Swiss government, through its Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), has taken...

Sponsored by the International Stability Operations Association (ISOA) Co-sponsored by Fund for Peace/Facilitated by Human Analytics MANAGING HUMAN RIGHTS RISKS IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS ISOA Members are leaders in the stability operations industry. They provide vital services in...

There is no doubt that business and human rights has gone mainstream when The Economist Intelligence Unit writes a report on the subject. The Road from Principles to Practice: Today’s Challenges for Business in Respecting Human Rights – sponsored by a number of governments,...

Human Analytics, in conjunction with the Human Rights in Business Program of the Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, the Global Governance, Politics & Security Program and the Ethics Peace & Global Affairs Program at American...

Human Analytics, in conjunction with the Human Rights in Business Program of the Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, the Global Governance, Politics & Security Program and the Ethics Peace & Global Affairs Program at American...

  On December 31 2014, Forbes magazine published the article, Eight CSR Trends to Watch Out For in 2015. Of the eight corporate social responsibility trends presented, the prediction from Christine Bader (formerly responsible for human rights matters at BP and the author of...