Africa – Here Comes the Judge
The significant reform of many of the commercial justice systems in Africa means that the economic growth the continent has generated in recent years is likely to accelerate. At a moment when global investors are conducting half-year reviews of where the most promising opportunities are for the next six months and beyond, the implications of […]
Désirée Abrahams: Human Rights Impact Assessments are Like a Promising School Band
Last week, I attended the 31st International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) Conference, held in the stunning, colonial Méxican city of Puebla. I was honoured to be invited to this amazing conference; not only to listen and learn from those working at all levels in the impact assessment (IA) field but also because the session […]
Brook Horowitz: Corporate Culture that Has Less Vertical Power
The simultaneous visit to Moscow last month of two of the world’s most senior anti-corruption regulators highlights the attention governments are devoting to fighting corruption and the challenges they face in some of the biggest emerging markets. Lanny Breuer, head of the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal division, which manages the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and […]
Peter Brew: Business Must Play its Role to Ensure Sustainable Growth in China
China, with the rest of Asia, has become the engine of growth that can fuel recovery in Europe and North America. It is imperative that a new mutually enhancing partnership is forged by governments and business based on sustainable economic, social, ethical and environmental practices. The role of business, however, in making this sustainable growth […]
Désirée Abrahams: Where is the Business and Human Rights Arena Headed?
In December last year, IBLF advertised for a Programme Coordinator to work on business and human rights. Needing to get someone in quickly, we set a one-week deadline and an essay of 250 words, themed ‘In your opinion, what does the future hold for business and human rights over the next five years?’ We were […]
IBLF – Expert Insight: Dr Mo Ibrahim
IBLF – Expert Insight: Dr Mo Ibrahim from Business Fights Poverty on Vimeo. IBLF’s latest Expert Insight webcast features one of Time magazine’s top 100 influential people in the world – Dr Mo Ibrahim. As the founder of CelTel, that spans over 15 African countries with more than $750 million in investments, and the head […]
Stakeholder Governance: An Analysis of BITC Corporate Responsibility Index Data on Stakeholder Engagement and Governance
Some critics of Corporate Responsibility falsely claim that it represents surrendering the running of business to Greenpeace and other NGOs. That is nonsense. Engaging stakeholders is not an abdication of management responsibility. It is how effective and successful modern management thrives. Good management involves reconciling customers, employees’, suppliers’, owners’ and society’s wants and needs with […]
Partnering to Strengthen Public Governance
Jan 08 – The report offers CEOs and Boards of Directors guidance on the development of an effective engagement strategy on relevant public governance challenges.
Development, Peace and Human Rights in Colombia
Jul 06 – The report draws together the latest thinking from overseas combined with examples of pioneering efforts in Colombia, to show how companies can work in partnership with other stakeholders to create conditions for lasting prosperity.
Better Corporate Governance: More Value for Everyone.
The state of corporate governance can have an important effect on the availability and cost of capital for all firms, and good corporate governance of financial firms is essential in fostering financial stability and healthy economic growth. Good corporate governance frameworks help firms and countries improve accountability, more efficiently use capital, and attract quality and […]
Human Rights: It is your Business
Dec 05 – The paper summarises the expectations for companies to take responsibility in reducing human rights abuses and describes good practice on how the corporate response can be managed.
First to know: Robust internal reporting programs
Aug 04 – This guidebook is designed to help managers establish programs to investigate and resolve reports of compliance problems in their global operations.
Human rights & the private sector
May 04 – This publication provides relevant frameworks for those interested in corporate practice and policy implementation on human rights.
Human rights & the private sector
May 04 – This publication provides relevant frameworks for those interested in corporate practice and policy implementation on human rights.
Human Rights: Is It Any of Your Business?
2000 – This publication, published jointly by IBLF and Amnesty International, offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to a subject now on the agenda of responsible companies and at the forefront of public attention.
Business & Human Rights: A geography of corporate risk
2002 – Amnesty International and IBLF have collaborated to produce a series of seven detailed world maps, which depict where human rights abuses and violations exist and where leading North American and European multinational companies are at risk of being associated with them.
Business and human rights: Policy commitments and disclosure in the extractive sector
The Power to Change: Mobilising board leadership to deliver sustainable value to markets and society
2001 – The Power to Change report explores how boards need to be engaged both internally and externally in responding to changing societal expectations of the role of business and communicating what they consider to be realistic expectations of what business can and cannot achieve.