What key moments have shaped corporate responsibility?

How did the business and human rights movement evolve? What important moments and historic cases have helped shape responsible business today?

Anita Ramasastry, Professor of Law at the University of Washington and faculty member on IHRB’s Masters course in Business and Human Rights, joins IHRB’s Salil Tripathi to discuss the evolution of the business and human rights movement by exploring the pivotal moments that shaped it.

Learn more about landmark legal cases; the creation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; important multi-stakeholder initiatives; and inspiring figures who shaped the field such as Ken Saro-Wiwa and John Ruggie.

Relevant links:

• UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
• Beyond Voluntarism
• Chronicling the business and human rights movement History page 

You can find out much more about some of the issues discussed in this episode by joining IHRB’s Masters Course on business and human rights at the University of Bergen, Norway, this September. The course brings together corporate leaders, lawyers, academics, and human rights defenders from around the world.

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Host: Deborah Sagoe, IHRB's Communications Coordinator
Producer & Editor: Helen Brown
Additional Contributors: Sam Simmons, IHRB's Head of Communications