Updates & Resources
Global Resource Initiative recommends the introduction of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
The Global Resource Initiative is a government-convened task force which looked at measures to tackle deforestation and land conversation for global supply chains to have a positive impact on people and planet. It recommended the introduction of mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence for agricultural and forestry commodities with scope to extend it in the future. It was recommended that the financial sector should be covered by a similiar obligation.
Human Rights and Business 2017: Promoting responsibility and ensuring accountability
Report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the UK’s commitment to human rights.