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A blog from the Amnesty International Business and Human Rights (BHR) group in Vancouver, documenting events and issues that interest us. Please also use our extensive list of BHR links.
What does "Business and Human Rights" mean?
From AIC's 2006 BHR brochure: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights calls on every part of society -- including companies -- to respect human rights. This means that companies have a responsibility to comply with international human rights law. They must not violate human rights or tolerate such violations in their field of operation.
What we do
The BHR Vancouver group supports the strategic goals of the AIC(ES) Business and Human Rights Campaign:
1. To improve the human rights performance of Canadian and transnational companies operating outside Canada.
2. To advocate for national and international standards and legislation to hold Canadian corporations accountable for their human rights performance.
3. To raise awareness and build capacity, both within and outside AI Canada, to advance the ongoing BHR work addressing the relationsip between corporations and human rights.
Get involved
For more information or to get involved with Amnesty's Business & Human Rights Campaign, contact Fiona Koza, the BHR Campaigner at Amnesty's Vancouver office, at fkoza@amnesty.ca
Disclaimer
This is not an official Amnesty International website. The opinions expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect the positions of Amnesty International.
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (news feed)
Organizations
- AI Canada: Business and Human Rights
- AI USA: BHR
- Aim for Human Rights: Human Rights and Business
- Amazon Watch
- BankTrack
- Business Council for the United Nations
- Business Ethics and Stakeholder Relations Program (U. of Ottawa)
- Business for Social Responsibility
- Business Leaders for a Fair Economy
- Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights
- Caiteur Group
- Campaign for Labor Rights
- Canadian Centre for the Study of Resource Conflict
- Canadian Council for International Co-operation
- Canadian Friends of Burma
- Caux Roundtable
- CBERN
- Centre for Social Markets
- Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
- Corporate Accountability International
- Corporate Ethics International
- Corporate Knights
- Corporate Responsibility Coalition
- Corporate Watch
- Council of Canadians
- Cultural Survival
- Development and Peace
- DIHR: Human Rights and Business Project
- ESCR-Net: Corporate Accountability Working Group
- Ethical Funds Company
- Ethical Trading Initiative
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
- Friends of the Congo
- Friends of the Earth Canada
- Global Compact Critics
- Global Exchange: Democratizing the Global Economy
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Global Response
- Global Witness
- Good Practice
- Guyana's Amerindian Peoples Association
- Halifax Initiative
- Human Rights Watch - Business
- ILHR: HR Auditing Standards and Procedures Project
- Institute of Business Ethics
- Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
- International Business Leaders Forum: Human Rights
- International Chamber of Commere: Business in Society
- International Labour Organization: CSR
- International Simultaneous Policy Organization
- Investor Responsibility Research Center
- ISO: Social Responsibility
- KAIROS: Corporate Accountability
- Kimberley Process
- Mimundo.org
- Mine Labour Protection Campaign
- Mines and Communities
- Mingas
- MiningWatch
- OECD Watch
- Oilwatch
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Project Underground
- Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative
- Rights & Accountability in Development
- Rights & Democracy: Investment and Human Rights
- Rights Action
- Shareholder Association for Research & Education
- Social Accountability International
- Social Investment Organization
- Social Justice Committee
- SocialFunds.com
- SOMO Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations
- Survival International
- SustainAbility
- UN and Business
- UNHCR: Business & Human Rights
- United Nations
- United Nations Development Programme
- Vancouver Burma Round Table
- World Bank: Human Rights
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development: CSR
Resources
- Alternet: Special Coverage: Workplace
- Association Transnationale
- Beyond Voluntarism
- Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- Business and International Crimes
- Business Case for Human Rights: Mary Robinson
- Business Recognition of Human Rights: UN
- BusinessEthics.ca
- Canada's Extractive Industry Ombudsperson (Foreign Policy Practicum)
- Corpobligation Beyond CSR
- Corpwatch: Human Rights
- CSR and the Canadian International Extractive Sector: CCSRC
- CSR International
- CSR News
- CSRwire
- CSRwire (Canada)
- Ethical Consumer
- EthicsWeb Bookstore: Business Ethics
- Framework for Respnsible Mining
- Harper statement at 2007 G8 about CSR
- Human Development Report 2000
- Human Rights for Workers
- HURIDOCS
- IBLF - BHR: A Geography of Corporate Risk
- International Corporate Sustainability Reporting Site
- International Simultaneous Policy Organization
- Investing for the Soul
- Mimundo.org's photostream
- National Roundtables on CSR
- Permanent Peoples' Tribunal on Global Corporations and Human Wrongs
- Protecting You Community Against Mining Companies and Other Extractive Industries
- Recommendations to reduce the risk of human rights violations and improve access to justice: CIDSE
- Report of the World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization
- Resources (Halifax Initiative)
- Sustainability-Reports.com
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library: BHR Links
- Why Human Rights Should Matter to the Business World
- WWW Chamber of Commerce
Legal Instruments and Guidelines
- Alien Torts Claims Act (US)
- Bench Marks
- Bill C-300
- Caux Roundtable Principles for Business
- CERES Principles
- CSR Principles and Codes
- Declaration of the International Conference on Extractive Industries and Indigenous Peoples
- Global Sullivan Principles
- ILO Tripartite Declaration of Principles...
- International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
- International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
- Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations...
- OECD Declaration on International Investment and Multinational Enterprises
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- United Nations Global Compact
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights
Blogroll
Those who have linked to us
Blog Archive
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- HRW: Diamonds in the Rough.
- URGENT: Vancouver-based Canadian mining company Co...
- Picket June 27 at MP Mario Silva's Toronto Office
- Rights Action: update on Goldcorp in Guatemala.
- BBC: Peru revokes land laws.
- International Spotlight: Indonesia coal mines
- Greg Palast: Oil and Indians Don't Mix
- Colombia leads world again in trade unionist murders
- AI Canada: Take Action: Peru
- Alex Neve: Challenge Alviro Aribe on Human Rights
- Council of Canadians: Urgent Action: Oppose Free T...
- Reuters: Laws criticized by Peru's indigenous groups
- Cultural Survival: Emergency Action: Stop Violence...
- Peru
- Ruggie presentation to UK human rights committee
- NY Times: Trying an Old Law
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