As human rights defenders expose and oppose injustices perpetrated by powerful economic and political actors, they may take ...

A growing wave of legal action around the energy transition is raising concerns about its implementation – and revealing ...

Calls to boycott McDonald’s also began days after October 7, when the fast food giant’s Israeli franchisee announced on social media it had “donated and continues to donate tens of thousands of meals ...

...Companies around the world have poured hundreds of millions of dollars into conservation projects in Brazil designed to ...

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is developing a new tracker – to be published by the end of 2025 – to deter and ...

In July 2023, an updated draft of the legally binding instrument was released, ahead of the ninth session of the open-ended intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other ...

“China denies millions of lives at risks as catastrophic flooding threatens Three Gorges Dam”, 23 June 2020 As many as 400 million lives may be at risk as torrential rain in China threatens the ...

Snapshot The plaintiffs (four Nigerian farmers) filed suit in 2008 against Shell in The Netherlands, where Royal Dutch Shell (the parent company) is headquartered. The plaintiffs filed three separate ...

In 2010, hundreds of lawsuits were filed against companies involved in the explosion of the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon which killed 11 workers and injured 17. Plaintiffs have a range of ...

Snapshot Starting in 1998, multiple lawsuits were filed in US courts against chemical company DuPont in relation to PFOA used to produce Teflon. Local farmers, residents and company workers claimed to ...

Workers in apparel supply chains are among the hardest hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. Even before the pandemic, workers had to survive on poverty wages; in the first three months of the pandemic alone, ...

Recommendations for companies in the Just Energy Transition: Assign clear Board responsibility for and oversight of respect for human and environmental rights: Board approves policies and regularly ...