Business and Human Rights Resource Centre

Our website is the only global business and human nghts knowledge hub, delivering up-to-date and comprehensive news and ‘information in eight languages We tracked the human nghts policy and performance of 7,904 companies in over 180 countries, making information publicly available on our digital platform We contnbute to and publish a free weekly update service on business and human ‘tights that reaches 27,096 recipients Our 18 Regional Researchers work with local communites and non-profit organizationsto Understand the impacts of businesses on the ground, and regularly talk with business people and government officials. We use this information {o mamtain our database and release briefings and analysis, synthesizing the work of hundreds of advocates across the world, and ‘making recommendations for companies, govemments, regions, and sectors. We help communities and NGOs convince companies address human rights concems, and provide companies an opportunity to present their response in full

We participate in KnowTheChain, an intiatve to rank companies on their efforts to eradicate forced labor from thew global supply chains 'n 2017 we conducted a full review of the KnowTheChain benchmark methodology. This involved ‘collecting feedback from “KnowTheChain partner organizations (Ilumanity United, Verite, Sustamalytics and the Resource Centre) and consulting extemal stakeholders a revised version of the framework. We iaunched revised methodologies for the Information & Communication Technology food ‘& beverage, and apparel & footwear sectors, and published ‘a list of companies to be benchmarked in 2018. We aisopublished ‘two in-depth case studies on forced iabor risks i the leather and sugarcane supply chains

The Guif construction project aims to strengthen accountability for the treatment of migrant workers in the Gulf construction industry ‘with a focus on companies in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates In addition to disseminating the findings of our 2016 report, this yearwe ‘tumed our attention to the hotel industry, surveying 10 companies on the scope of their operations in Qatar and the UAE and the polides ‘and processes they have in place to protect their migrant workforce from labor exploitation and abuse We aiso began buildingan ‘online platform and database to track the awarding of construction contracts in the Gulf in 2017 The Gulf Construction Tracker S due to be launched in Ap One