What Forced Labor in Xinjiang Factories Says about Supply Chains
Mapping the Landscape of Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives – Few MSIs Are Equipped to Address Governance Gaps
Endangered Species: Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives in the Trump Administration
In times of regulatory rollback, limited resources, and an ever-growing list of corporate human rights abuses, fine-tuning our understanding of private governance mechanisms is more important than ever. How can the experiment of regulation through MSIs be safeguarded from a premature death in a politically hostile environment?
Governance Innovations to Develop Practical Solutions for Business and Human Rights Challenges
Every crisis that involves business – may it be a factory collapse, an oil spill, or new technologies with unforeseen implications - shows us the limits of regulatory state power. These incidences ask for a reflection on how to redefine governance in the context of a global economy with multinational corporations that are oftentimes more powerful than governments.
The U.S. National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights should encourage higher standards for human rights
Filling the Governance Gap: Multi-stakeholder Standard-Setting Trends in MSI Structures – Tiered Membership
This blog, the second in the series, “Filling the Governance Gap: Multi-stakeholder Standard-setting” examines the benefits and risks of a tiered membership structure.
Why We’re Leaving the Global Network Initiative
This week, the Global Network Initiative (GNI) announced that seven telecom companies have joined its ranks as observers according to terms approved at GNI’s December board meeting. Given our serious concerns about the terms of the agreement to admit the telecom companies, as well as GNI’s overall direction at this time, we are regretfully withdrawing our participation in the initiative.
NYU Center for Business and Human Rights resigns its membership in the Global Network Initiative
After significant consideration, we have decided to withdraw our membership from the GNI. The board’s vote on the terms of an agreement to admit the Industry Dialogue companies in March 2017 and today's announcement that seven of the ID companies have accepted does not set GNI on a strong course for the future, at a moment when addressing issues of human rights in the technology sector is more pressing than ever.
Filling the governance gap: multi-stakeholder standard-setting -- The Board of Directors
Multi-stakeholder Initiatives (MSIs) have emerged to address governance gaps that result from transnational companies' (TNCs) operations in states that cannot, or will not, fulfill their obligations to protect the rights of their own citizens. MSI boards are tasked with working together to reach the goals of the MSI.
Creating Industry-Specific Standards to Operationalize the “Responsibility to Respect”
Any measurement of progress requires a baseline – determining whether the dial has moved can only be assessed if we know where it was before. Companies in the same industry face similar human rights challenges. They should therefore define the same priorities as they address human rights challenges.
Promoting Human Rights Online Using a Multi-Stakeholder Approach
Addressing Corporate Human Rights Challenges through Multi-stakeholder Initiatives
Michael Posner Statement on Blackwater Convictions: NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights Encourages DoD to adopt high standards for contractor conduct
Center joins the Global Network Initiative
In September, the Center was accepted as the first business school member of the Global Network Initiative (GNI), the leading international initiative on business and human rights in the information communications technology sector.