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Aug 12, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Salil Tripathi
A jury in Florida recently reached a momentous verdict in the history of the business and human rights agenda. Chiquita, the brand synonymous with bananas, was found liable under US domestic law principles of ‘negligence’ and ‘wrongful death’ as well as Colombian principles of tort liability, for killings that took place in Colombia in the 1990s.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Rae Lindsay
The EU's long-awaited Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) is now in force, having finally been agreed by EU lawmakers after lengthy negotiations and last-minute political brinkmanship.
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May 31, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Mark Taylor
The effects of violence ripple throughout a community. Victims, perpetrators, families, friends, neighbours, colleagues are all touched by events. But we are all affected differently. The effects of war and mass atrocities ripple out across our international system. Palestine. Ukraine. Sudan. The violence of events in these and other places touches us. War and its atrocities kill and maim people we know, destroy places we call home, polarize our politics, and dominate the conversation.
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May 15, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Salil Tripathi
Global tech giants are engaged in a battle over human rights in India, the country described as the world’s largest democracy, which is at the half-way stage of its marathon, three-month long elections. At stake are fundamental concerns of privacy, individual liberty, and multinational companies’ responsibility to respect these human rights.
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Feb 8, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Steven Jones
The dangerous security situation unfolding in the Red Sea over recent weeks, in which commercial ships have come under attacks from Houthi militia groups, is forcing shipping companies to take extraordinary measures in order to address significant challenges for global trade. Often overlooked at such moments is how shipping companies themselves must respond to conflict and security threats that impact employees and wider communities.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Rakesh Ranjan
This month, officials from India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, and Haryana (which neighbours Delhi) are hosting a delegation of Israeli businesses seeking workers from the two states for jobs in Israel. The Israel Builders Association requested Indian workers to replace Palestinian and other workers who have been displaced, laid off, or may have died during the ongoing conflict. The reported salary is generous by Indian standards.
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Jan 22, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | John Morrison
The dark clouds gathering over Davos at the end of the World Economic Forum are not just of the snow-bearing variety (although it is due to be a very chilly minus 17C tonight). The heaviness comes from a growing sense of an unravelling international order. This is seen in wide-scale distrust of institutions and their leaders alongside horrific conflicts threatening stability around the globe, ongoing inequalities within and between nations, and the ever growing impacts of the climate crisis.
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Jan 18, 2024 | 
ihrb.org | Salil Tripathi
It is remarkable how quickly the controversy around what constitutes permissible campus speech has turned into a full-frontal attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the United States. Most recently, what started as robust criticism of university students supporting Palestine has turned into a full-fledged campaign against DEI, and it already claimed two university presidents, both women, including Harvard’s Claudine Gay, who is black.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
ihrb.org | Salil Tripathi
“Where, after all do human rights begin? In small places, close to home—so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.” Eleanor Roosevelt, who said this in a speech marking the tenth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights named among those places the factory, the farm, and the office.
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Nov 1, 2023 | 
ihrb.org | Salil Tripathi
When an armed conflict as divisive and destructive as the one ongoing in the Middle East dominates public debate, what is the impact on business? Does the private sector have any role to play in such situations? Arguably, a business leader could think their organisation has little to be concerned about if it does not buy or sell products from Israel or the Occupied Territories of Palestine, or does not have employees or investments in either. But no company can ignore the realities of such moments.