Sunday, November 25, 2007

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: A brief description

http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/RegionsCountries/AsiaPacific/SouthKorea

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre: A brief description

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has become the world’s leading independent resource on the subject. Our website is updated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide – positive and negative.

The site covers over 3600 companies, over 180 countries. It receives over 1.5 million hits per month. Topics include discrimination, environment, poverty & development, labour, access to medicines, health & safety, security, trade.

“An essential guide to the world's companies and their records on human rights.” Guardian newspaper

“No debate can move forward, no positive change can be made, without facts. The Resource Centre is the only website to provide such a broad range of balanced information on business and human rights – company by company, country by country, issue by issue.” Mary Robinson (Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative, former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland)

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