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The Guardian, Humanity United and the Institute for Human Rights and Business are co-organising a one-day summit designed to build the business case for effective management of risks related to human trafficking and forced labour throughout multinational...

On Wednesday 26th February 2014, GBI Executive Director, Mark Hodge, addressed 25 participants on the subject of business and human rights in a keynote speech at the Financial Club in Jakarta, Indonesia. After delivering the speech, Mark Hodge participated...

On 3 & 4 December, the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights will organise the second UN Forum on Business and Human Rights in Geneva,...

The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Government of Colombia will co-host this first Regional Forum on Business and...

As the Indian Nobel Laureate for literature, the poet Rabindranath Tagore writes in Stray Birds - “He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” The new Companies Bill in India fails to heed this lesson. Equally important, it fails to see...

Blog Post on the Business Fights Poverty Website by Katryn Wright, Programme Manager, Global Business Initiative on Human Rights “For a long time, the policy debates, advocacy campaigns and practice sharing about business and human rights has been...

Kathryn Dovey, Director of GBI along with representatives from Total and General Electric Company took part in a side session at the World Economic Forum in Naypyidaw, Myanmar on 5 June entitled “Implementing standards for Responsible Business and...

The Conference Board Knowledge Series presents ‘Human Rights Risk’, including guest speaker Mark Hodge – Executive Director of GBI “We will learn the who, what, why, and how of human rights risks. While many think of this as an...