Human Rights

This IHRB occasional paper was written to explore the impacts of big data on fundamental rights, highlight current expert opinion, and provoke deeper discussion and critical assessment of the roles and responsibilities of companies in the collection, storage, processing and sharing of personal data.

Marking International Human Rights Day today, the 10th of December 2016, the Institute for Human Rights and Business has published the seventh annual list of the Top 10 Business & Human Rights Issues for the forthcoming year.

A new report published by China Labor Watch demonstrates that the same legal and ethical violations that attracted media attention in 2012 continue unabated at Apple supplier factories today.

Today is International Friendship Day, and there is everywhere greater awareness of human problems and difficulties and of the need of settling them on the basis of good will and understanding.

Delegates at the 2016 International Labour Conference should initiate a process to develop a binding, international convention to protect human rights in global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday.

A Call for a Binding Global Standard on Due Diligence - Human Rights in Supply Chains sets out some of the most pervasive human rights problems documented by Human Rights Watch in global supply chains.

Apple has been working since 2010 to remove minerals connected to its supply chain, and while it isn’t yet declaring its products totally conflict-free, the company said all of its 242 smelters and refiners of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold are now subject to third-party audits.

DHL has grievously and systematically failed to live up to international standards, as well as its own procedures, aspirations and promises.

The report, by Dr Victor Figueroa Clark of the London School of Economics, released yesterday, has found global logistics giant DHL guilty of breaking its own – and international – rules on the way its workers are treated.

The global supply chains of 50 companies employ only six per cent of people in a direct employment relationship, yet they rely on a hidden workforce of 94 per cent according to new research from the International Trade Union Confederation.

The ITUC report exposes an unsustainable business model, with a global footprint that covers almost every country in the world and profiles 25 companies with headquarters in Asia, Europe, and the United States.

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International has found a pretty big problem with the supply chains behind popular devices from Apple, Samsung, Sony, Microsoft, and other technology companies.

This report is the first comprehensive account of how cobalt enters the supply chain of many of the world’s leading brands.

The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) has called on world leaders meeting at the United Nations this week to work together to find solutions to the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe.

Through the company’s monetary and transportation contribution, FedEx will deliver immediate relief and longer-term support for those affected by the crisis.