Businesses have human rights responsibilities under the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, an international standard endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011.

Holocaust Remembrance – new UNESCO Guidelines To mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, UNESCO has published three new guides to help educators and journalists ...

The adoption has largely influenced this development in 2011 of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), which has become the most ...

This comprehensive toolkit aims to help financial institutions integrate human rights considerations into their operations by providing actionable steps aligned with the United Nations Guiding ...

with a particular focus on promoting human rights due diligence in global supply chains and leveraging the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.” Since the endorsement of the United ...

(IN BRIEF) The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has launched a Human Rights Resource Kit developed with support from the European Investment Bank. This comprehensive toolkit aims ...

The United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) articulate the corporate responsibility to respect human rights. This responsibility is fast being hardcoded into new and ...

Dear Participants of the UN Global Compact ... businesses and nearly 3,000 non-business signatories worldwide, with five regional hubs and 63 Country Networks. For twenty-five years, our Ten ...

Last week, United Nations member states began negotiating ... in revenue and undermines their capacity to deliver on human rights. Currently there are few measures to prevent or deter ...

The U.N. human rights chief appealed on Thursday for $500 million in funding for 2025 to support its work investigating human ...

JERUSALEM/GENEVA, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Israel has told the United Nations Human Rights Council that it is disengaging from the body, alleging it was biased, Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday.

"The potential of the United Nations is fantastic, if properly run." Trump had withdrawn the U.S. from the U.N. Human Rights Council during his first administration, but former President Joe Biden ...