With investigative journalism and legislation on forced labor and human trafficking on the rise, forced labor risks can translate into concrete negative impacts for investors, both reputational and financial. As an example, in 2015, the US marine-services company Signal International LLC went bankrupt after having...
As an increasing number of companies grapple with integrating human rights considerations into their everyday business operations, the question that I hear time and time again is, “What is the business case for corporate human rights management?” Values to Valuation, an ambitious new academic research...
The EU Directive on Non-Financial Reporting was adopted by the European Parliament and Council in October 2014. EU Member States have to meet the deadline of putting this directive into domestic law by 6 December 2016, and so the UK’s Department for Business, Innovation & Skills...