The growing trend around non-financial reporting, stemming from John Ruggie's Protect, Respect, Remedy framework, sees greater importance attached to human rights due diligence.

The UN Secretary General's Special Representative on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises, Professor John Ruggie, has produced his final report on Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights.

Three years since the UN Guiding Principles were endorsed, ETI Director Peter McAllister asks what business can do to help states exercise their duty to protect.

More than 300 delegates converged in London from 19 – 20 October, for the inaugural Ethical Trade and Human Rights Forum. The conference looked at how we can move beyond the incremental progress of an audit and CSR-based era, to a future of transformative change for sustainable trade.

Stirling Smith is puzzled that companies don’t want to save money, and makes you an offer you can’t refuse.

How is ETI putting the UN Guiding Principles into practice? We explored just that during our side event at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, sharing live examples from company, NGO and trade union members.

UK building, construction and landscaping sector leaders recently learned about a new business and human rights programme in the export sandstone sector of Rajasthan, India.

The UK government launched Good Business: Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights last night. ETI Director Peter McAllister gives his thoughts.

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights present an exciting opportunity to work together, and should not be feared, says ETI Director Peter McAllister.