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This GBI Business Roundtable entitled Human Rights and Business Practices: Understanding Responsibilities brought together experiences of 150 individuals – over 120 business representatives (with almost 60 domestic Brazilian companies represented),...

United Nations releases much-anticipated set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights. The Guiding Principles seek to provide for the first time an authoritative global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of...

GBI announces that the Initiative’s core group of members has been joined by Malaysia-based diversified multinational Sime Darby (click here for Sime Darby’s website)

GBI members Mansour, Novo Nordisk A/S, Shell, The Coca-Cola Company, Total S.A. and Unilever plc. join United Nations Global Compact LEAD along with nearly 50 other companies from 25 countries. LEAD is a new platform for corporate sustainability leadership,...

Cairo, Egypt – International Human Rights Day 2010 – GBI releases statement supporting publication of the ‘Draft Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the United Nations ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’...

The Global Business Initiative on Human Rights Roundtable in Cairo featured keynote speakers Prof. John Ruggie and Youssef Mansour. This one-day roundtable comprised an exchange among senior business leaders in relation to human rights in a business...

GBI has formally announced that the Initiative’s core group of members has been joined by Unilever, a leading supplier of fast moving consumer goods. The breadth of Unilever’s global presence marks a significant step in the Initiative’s...

This Global Compact Network Vietnam workshop on “Managing Human Rights Issues in your Companies and Organization” was chaired by GBI Director Mark Hodge and provided an overview of current Human Rights issues in the Asian...