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Article quoting UN SRSG John Ruggie, Uddesh Kohli of UNGC India, Salil Tripathi of IHRB and Mark Hodge, Director of GBI more

“Building a strong human rights policy from within”, a commentary by GBI Director Kathryn Dovey, is now available on the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre’s Tools and Guidance Portal via this link

Attended by over 300 representatives from business, civil society and government, the event provided an opportunity to highlight the work being done by the Special Representative on Business and Human Rights Professor John Ruggie, and also draw attention to...

This roundtable event was held on 24 May 2010 and focused on integrating human rights into business. The event, directed at the Colombian business community, was organised by Fundación Ideas para la Paz in partnership with the Global Business...

The UN SRSG Professor John Ruggie’s 2009 report on “Business and human rights: Towards operationalizing the ‘protect, respect and remedy’ framework” has recently been issued, and includes reference the work of GBI members...

Human Rights Chapter in Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability by GBI Director Kathryn Dovey. To view visit

GBI Director Kathryn Dovey and representatives from GBI core company members ABB and Mansour addressed the meeting of the AMCHAM CSR Committee on the subject of Safeguarding Human Rights in Business Practices. This address marked the start of GBIs engagements...

GBI today formally announced that the Initiative’s core group of members will be joined by Singapore-based electronics manufacturing services provider Flextronics and Colombian mining company Cerrejón. This follows on from the announcement of...