On 22 March 2013, the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) together with the UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) brought together a range of OECD National Contact Points (NCPs), businesses within the extractive sectors, and trade union and civil society organisations. Focused on NCP “specific instances” in the extractives sectors for a second meeting of stakeholders since the establishment of the updated OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) in 2011, participants discussed progress since the March 2012 meeting and in particular looked at the “proactive agenda” as it might relate to high-risk investment contexts.
How should businesses respond to an age of conflict and uncertainty?
As 2024 began, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen aptly summed up our deeply worrying collective moment. As she put it, speaking at the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland, we are moving through “an era of conflict and...
26 March 2024 | Commentary
Commentary by Scott Jerbi, Senior Advisor, Policy & Outreach, IHRB