In a landmark case, Building and Wood Workers’ International (BWI) has filed a complaint against Saudi Arabia under Article 24 of the ILO constitution, amid widespread human rights violations against ...

Explore the big challenges, opportunities, debates and frameworks for business and human rights. This section contains a selection of key portals curated by our global team.

In 2001, six female employees of Walmart filed suit against their company in US federal court alleging that Walmart discriminated against them in salary, bonuses and training. After extensive ...

" No El Dorado: How Asian Migrant Workers’ Romanian Dreams Became Nightmares", 21 October 2024. Increasing numbers of labour migrants from Asia have been coming to work in Romania with high hopes of ...

"Canadian Workers Win First Walmart Warehouse Union North of Mexico" Eight hundred workers near Toronto have won the first Walmart warehouse union in Canada or the U.S. The Walmart distribution center ...

This section features guidance on how companies and governments should implement the UN Guiding Principles. Under the UNGPs, companies should: express their commitment to respect human rights through ...

…Park also urged Nam Ho-jae, the head of the Employment and Labour Ministry’s Development Cooperation Support Team, who serves as a permanent member of the Korean National Contact Point (NCP), to take ...

Financial Institutions (FIs) – from pension funds, to asset owners and managers, private and commercial banks – have systemic influence in driving better outcomes for people and planet in global ...

This is an unofficial summary of the revised draft of the legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business ...