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GBI Executive Director Mark Hodge addressed Chatham House as part of a panel held on 28 September 2015 discussing emerging business and human rights trends for the next decade in response to Chatham House research paper. Mark’s comments focused on...

This week, GBI joined the world’s major business organisations, industry groups and corporate responsibility initiatives, to affirm the critical link between the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,...

GBI has collaborated with Clifford Chance to publish a briefing for business on the development of National Action Plans on Business and Human Rights (NAPs). This briefing identifies key recent developments relevant to the business community; identifies...

GBI today formally announced that Hilton Worldwide will join the Initiative’s core group of members. Hilton Worldwide is a leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxury and full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay...

A GBI workshop entitled ‘Respect in Practice – Understanding and Addressing Human Rights Impacts’ was held at the 9th annual CSR Asia Summit, in Kuala Lumpur on 8 October 2015. The workshop, moderated by GBI’s Executive Director...

Mark Hodge, Executive Director of GBI, addressed the IBA Annual Conference on the role of In-house Lawyers in UNGPs implementation in practice on 5 October 2015. GBI’s interventions followed keynotes from the former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and...

A summary report has today been released of a consultation on the U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on Responsible Business Conduct, co-hosted by the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI), the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)...

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...