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New report and guidance launched to help companies address exploitation of women migrant workers

Summary

  • IHRB has published a new report highlighting the disproportionate and unique challenges facing women migrant workers worldwide, and the consistent failure on the part of governments and businesses to ensure the rights of women migrant workers are respected and protected in supply...more

08 March 2024.

New report: collective action needed to eliminate practices detrimental to seafarer wellbeing

Issues such as illegal recruitment fees are negatively impacting the lives and wellbeing of seafarers and jeopardising the profession’s future, according to the latest annual progress report on seafarers’ rights.

The Delivering on Seafarers’ Rights Annual Progress Report, published by the...more

31 January 2024.

IHRB publishes Top 10 Business & Human Rights Issues 2024

In a time of conflict, climate crisis, rapidly evolving technologies, and persistent inequalities, what are the frontiers where responsible business will be critical? How can business leadership help renew a global commitment to human rights over the decades to come? 

Each International Human...more

10 December 2023.

Vicky Bowman receives honour for outstanding contribution to human rights

Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB), and member of IHRB’s International Advisory Council, has been appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) for her ‘sustained and brave contribution to promoting human rights, democracy and...more

31 October 2023.

IHRB joins the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance

IHRB has recently joined IRMA, the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance, a global, multi-stakeholder, standard-setting organisation whose mission is to protect people and the environment directly affected by mining.

Since 2009, IHRB has worked extensively on human rights issues related to...more

23 October 2023.

Help shape a new course on human rights in the built environment

The world faces interconnected challenges, many of which play out in how we plan, finance, design, build and manage cities and towns, infrastructure and buildings.

The Institute for Human Rights and Business, with support from the Ove Arup Foundation, is developing an international professional...more

11 August 2023.

IHRB and Dark Matter Labs to map land ownership patterns in four European cities

As part of our work to advance a just transition in the built environment, IHRB has partnered with Dark Matter Labs to map the largest public and private owners of land in four European cities: Copenhagen, Lisbon, Prague and Athens. 

Land owners of land in urban areas have a significant influence...more

21 July 2023.

Global Forum returns to tackle recruitment fees charged to migrant workers

Representatives of global companies, along with governments and civil society organisations from around the world, are meeting today at the sixth Global Forum for Responsible Recruitment in-person (New York) and online.

The Forum, hosted by the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB) and...more

13 June 2023.

New research finds charging of ‘recruitment fees’ most common illegal practice experienced by seafarers

IHRB and partners are calling for an end to recruitment fees, an illegal practice prohibited under the Maritime Labour Convention.

The results of a new study of seafarers launched today finds that over two thirds (70%) of seafarers who have experienced violations of their workers’ rights say they...more

18 April 2023.

New report highlights roles of government, business and investors in addressing climate impacts on housing rights

The UN Rapporteur on the Right to Housing has shared a new report about the impact of climate change on housing rights. IHRB's Annabel Short explains what business and investors should know, including the report's recommendations.

The report sets out the multiple ways that climate change impacts...more

22 March 2023. Commentary by Annabel Short, Principal, It's Material; Research Fellow, IHRB

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