We work with everyone to advance human rights in business and eradicate abuse.
We amplify the voices of the vulnerable, and human rights advocates in civil society, media, companies, and governments.
- Our Regional Researchers – located all over the world – go to local communities to understand the impacts of businesses on the ground, and regularly talk with businesspeople and government officials.
- We release briefings and analysis, synthesising the work of hundreds of advocates across the world and make recommendations for companies, governments, regions, and sectors.
We help communities and NGOs get companies to address human rights concerns, and provide companies an opportunity to present their response in full.
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- We take up alleged abuse quickly and directly with companies. We’ve made over 6,000 approaches to companies asking them to respond to specific human rights allegations. Our global response rate is 55-60%.
- We systematically follow up on company responses, pursuing companies that fail to respond adequately to allegations of egregious abuse. See examples of our impact.
- Advocates and communities thank us for eliciting responses from companies. Companies thank us for providing them the opportunity to present their responses in full.
We collect data on the human rights policy and performance of over 10,000 companies in over 180 countries, making information publicly available. We engage with companies and governments to urge them to share information publicly.
- Our website is the only global business and human rights knowledge hub, delivering up-to-date and comprehensive news in 11 languages. We receive over 415,000 page views on our site every month.
- Our free Weekly Update e-newsletter has over 14,000 subscribers around the world, including advocates, activists, businesspeople, governments, investors and the UN (Sign up / View archive).
