The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights have emerged as the global standard for companies’ management of their human rights impacts. Under the Guiding Principles, companies are expected to “know and show” that they do not infringe on human rights through their operations or business relationships. Human rights impact assessments represent a key first step in meeting this expectation. This report shares BSR’s eight guidelines for conducting effective HRIAs, as well as a step-by-step guidance on the four levels of HRIAs: corporate, country, site, and product.
Sexual abuse can be difficult to think about and to talk about: it can feel complex, emotional and even scary. You might worry about ‘getting it wrong’, having to have difficult conversations, ‘opening a can of worms’, and not know...Read More
This report is based largely on interviews with garment suppliers, social compliance auditors, and garment industry experts, including those with at least a decade’s experience sourcing for numerous global brands; hundreds of interviews with worke...Read More
According to the latest global estimates, 160 million children worldwide are in child labour. That is one in ten children in the world, and their number is growing. Nearly half of these children are performing hazardous work. At the same time, 25 mi...Read More
Temporary work visas are intended to provide decent jobs to migrant workers while helping U.S. businesses meet their labor needs by filling mostly low-wage jobs that would otherwise sit vacant. Policymakers often refer to the migrants who come to th...Read More
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