CIDSE’s work on business and human rights tries to close gaps in existing standards, including through regulation, and to provide solutions for communities facing negative impacts from business.
CIDSE member organisations are actively involved in national business and human rights discussions and accompanying partners on specific cases and situations related to extractive industries, agriculture and manufacturing.
Hereunder the list of resources/projects in which CIDSE Member Organisations are involved. The list is updated regularly.
CAFOD
- Pro-poor business enabling environment: Zambia case study
- Thinking Small II: Why poor producers and small business owners may hold the key to a sustainable recovery
- Good Business? Analysis of the UK Government Action Plan on Business & Human Rights
- Common good and the economy
- Investing in our Future
CCFD-Terre Solidaire
- Report on conflict minerals in DRC, Colombia, Myanmar
- Responsible investment, G8 New Alliance for Food Security
- Survey of CAC40 companies on UN GPs
- PROPOSITION DE LOI relative au devoir de vigilance des sociétés mères et des entreprises donneuses d’ordre
- CARTON JAUNE Investissements: hors jeu!
- Investissements agricoles: sécurité alimentaire ou financière?
- Régulation des multinationales pétrole à Muanda: la justice au rabais
- Des ressources naturelles au cœur des conflits – Agir pour une législation européenne ambitieuse
- L’économie au service de l’humanité. Au nom de leur foi des chrétiens s’engagent pour un meilleur encadrement des multinationales
- Les liaisons dangereuses d’Orange dans le Territoire palestinien occupé
- Le baril ou la vie?
- “In the face of corporate impunity, progress in Europe” by the Forum Citoyen pour la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises”, a coalition coordinated by CCFD-Terre Solidaire (EN – FR)
KOO/DKA
- Parallel Report: Austria’s Extraterritorial State Obligations on ESCR
- Baseline study on Austrian legal framework for Human Rights and Business Abroad (English Summary). Full report in German “Menschen.Rechte.Wirtschaft – Rechtsgutachten zum Menschenrechtsschutz bei Auslandsaktivitäten österreichischer Unternehmen“
Entraide et Fraternite/ Justice and Peace Commission Belgium
- Survey of companies based in Belgium / conflict minerals in supply chain
- Pamphlet: What should be done about conflict minerals?
- Study on shale gas and citizen mobilization in EU
- Droits humains et agribusiness: David(s) contre Goliath(s)?”
Fastenopfer
- Educational booklet on smartphone rating
- Rating of mobile phone producers
- 3rd report Glencore in Katanga (EN)
- Swiss government comparative study (FR) on due diligence legal mechanisms
- Human Rights Impact Assessment of the Tampakan Copper-Gold Project
- PR or Progress? Glencore’s Corporate Responsibility in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Human Rights Policy in Swiss Companies: an Overview (EN – FR – GE)
- Over 140’000 signatures for the Swiss Responsible Business Initiative (EN – GE)
Misereor
- (With ECCHR) Report on lessons learned from strategic litigation casework / access to justice in Germany
- (With GPF-BftW) Study on business influence on the UN GPs
- Umweltzerstörungen und Menschenrechtsverletzungen im Bergbau in Peru
- Global Business and Human Rights Putting Germany to the Test
- A Model Human Rights Clause for the EU’s International Trade Agreements
- Corporate Influence on the Business and Human Rights Agenda of the United Nations
- Holding Companies Accountable – Lessons from transnational human rights litigation
Trócaire
- Position paper on developing an Irish NAP
- Trocaire’s Submission to Review of Ireland’s Foreign Policy and External Relations
- Stand for Global justice European Parliament Elections 2014 Trócaire Policy Briefing
SCIAF
- Taking Care of Business: The impact of big business on people living in poverty, a Policy Paper by SCIAF, July 2014