Human Rights

Maintaining Sustainability and Human Rights Principles as Supply Chains Upend

Compounding crises have wreaked havoc on global supply chains and show no sign of letting up. BSR shares implications of these tariffs and recommendations on next steps for companies.

CSDDD:Using a Risk-Based Approach to Address Human Rights and Environmental Impacts in Supply Chains

The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) expects companies to take a risk-based approach to address human rights and environmental impacts. Assessing impacts across the supply chain is a challenging requirement for companies. BSR’s Human Rights team walks through the three steps involved in a risk-based approach.

Adequate Wages vs. Living Wages: Implementation Guidance for Companies

BSR’s Human Rights team unpacks the differences in terminology, provides practical guidance on how companies can determine the Adequate Wage for a location, and shares what companies can expect to come from reporting and human rights due diligence requirements.

An Impact-Based Approach to Responsible AI

AI is evolving at speed, creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges across every industry and function. A responsible approach to AI goes beyond policies and principles to consider AI’s impacts on people and the environment across the company’s value chain over the short, medium and long term. BSR’s tech team offers key considerations for navigating AI’s evolving landscape responsibly.

The CSDDD: Implications for the Finance Industry

WBA’s 2024 Social Benchmark evaluated the world’s 2,000 most influential companies and found that approximately 90% of financial institutions assessed scored zero on human rights due diligence.

Responsible Innovation in the Automotive Industry

The automotive sector is experiencing a period of significant change. With growing concerns about climate change and environmental impacts, sustainability has become a strategic priority for automotive organizations.

The EU AI Act: 11 Recommendations for Business

The EU AI Act applies to all AI systems impacting people in the EU across all sectors. Businesses can prioritize the order in which provisions take effect, starting with prohibited AI, followed by AI systems that interact with people, and finally high-risk AI systems. BSR's Technology team discusses how a human rights-based approach will help ensure compliance.

Driving Forward Human Rights in Transport & Logistics

Human rights risks and impacts in the transport & logistics sector have historically been overlooked, despite the criticality of these operations for many businesses. Emerging sustainability regulations, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, require companies to conduct human rights due diligence on their transport & logistics activities.

Three Approaches for Integrating Human Rights into Corporate Risk Registers

Integrating human rights risks into a corporate risk register is a tactic that companies can use to identify human rights risks in their operations as mandated by emerging regulations. BSR outlines three approaches—of varying levels of intensity—to ensure that risk registers effectively measure human rights risks.