2012

Vale is a Brazilian multinational diversified metals and mining corporation and one of the largest logistics operators in Brazil. In addition to being the second-largest mining company in the world, Vale is also the largest producer of iron ore, pellets, and...

Senior UAE business leaders met today to discuss the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and how they might use these to help inform their business practices. The Guiding Principles were adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011 and...

On 8 November 2012, a Business Roundtable entitled East African Roundtable for Business Leaders: Implementing Corporate Respect for Human Rights provided space for a unique exchange among business leaders in relation to this rapidly developing area of...

GBI members ABB, The Coca-Cola,  Company, Total S.A. and GBI Director Kathryn Dovey are participating in the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council in Dubai, UAE from 12 to 14 November as members of the Global Agenda Council on Human Rights. ...

This one-day Roundtable is aimed at business leaders from Kenya and East Africa. Participants will include business leaders committed to integrating human rights in their own corporations from Kenya, East Africa and internationally. Discussions will be...

GBI announced today that the membership of the core group of companies has been joined by A.P.Moller Maersk (Maersk Group), BASF and Syngenta, making a significant addition to the industry and sectoral diversity of the group.  Maersk...

“Business and human rights is now a permanent, if somewhat, nascent fixture of European public policy. It first came to prominence under the Swedish Presidency of the European Union in 2009 and was the focus of the Danish EU Presidency Conference of...