June 2015

Is bad business dead?

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Tuesday, 13 October 2026

On Monday 23 November 2026 at the ICRC Geneva, GBI will host a timely discussion between our Senior Advisor, Gerald Pachoud and President and Co-founder of Shift, Caroline Rees. Fifteen years on from the UNGPs, companies have human rights policies, due diligence systems, specialist teams, many companies have board oversight and, more and more, legal obligations. Things that were fairly normal in 2011 are now much harder to defend. But has any of that really changed what companies decide when human rights collide with commercial interests, geopolitical pressures or tough operating environments? Can a company have excellent HRDD and still make bad calls? Has the...

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GBI releases statement calling for governments to demonstrate leadership on business and human rights through National Action Plans

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

In a public statement released today, the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI) calls on States to develop National Action Plans (NAPs) on business and human rights and provides recommendations for the content of such plans. GBI’s statement...

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OECD blog - Corporate respect for human rights in the Chinese context

Thursday, 18 June 2015

The OECD today published a blog on ‘Corporate respect for human rights in the Chinese context’  by GBI Director Katryn Wright. It calls for greater stakeholder collaboration to scale efforts by companies to implement corporate respect for...

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G7 leaders’ declaration highlights value of the UNGPs

Wednesday, 10 June 2015

G7 leaders indicate support for the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the role of National Action Plans (NAPs) in a statement released following their annual Summit on 7 and 8 June 2015, hosted by Germany under their presidency of...

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UN Working Group publish report on reflections from the 2014 Third Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights

Wednesday, 03 June 2015

This report presented at the 29th session of the UN Human Rights Council focuses on the actions that business enterprises have taken to meet their corporate responsibility to respect human rights. It is based on the presentations and key lessons from the...

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