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Business Learning Project China |Starting in 2012, GBI has been working with national and international partners to engage private and state-owned Chinese companies on human rights and responsible business. We co-convened a first of its kind event series in...

South Africa Business Leaders’ Dialogue |In 2016, GBI, the National Business Initiative (NBI) and the Global Compact Network South Africa (GCNSA) convened a business-to-business meeting on corporate respect for human rights. The conference was attended by...

Access to Remedy|Access to remedy is a crucial component of companies’ responsibilities to respect human rights. For companies, this involves the establishment of grievance mechanisms to process complaints and allegations and co-operating in remedial...

A Business and Human Rights Treaty|In July 2018, the intergovernmental working group (IGWG), tasked with elaborating a treaty on transnational corporations and human rights, released the zero draft. This has been the next step in a process that began in 2014...

National Action Plans|The development of National Action Plans (NAPs) is a process through which all States can create momentum towards the full realisation of their human rights obligations and the transformative vision set by the UN Guiding Principles on...

The Sustainable Developments Goals|The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in September 2015, present an ambitious global framework to address inequality, and a transformative vision of a world that places people and planet at its core. GBI joined...

The transformative nature of respect|The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights was established in 2009 with a vision of all companies, in all parts of the world, respecting the dignity and rights of people they impact and interact with. Since then, the...