Institute for Human Rights & Business

Acronym: IHRB

General Information

Identification Code: 502528740269-60

Website: http://www.ihrb.org

Entity Form: charity

Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar

Registration Date: 11/30/2020

Last Update: 3/20/2024

Mission & Interests

Goals: Founded in 2009, IHRB is the leading international think tank on business and human rights. IHRB’s mission is to shape policy, advance practice, and strengthen accountability in order to make respect for human rights part of everyday business. Since its founding, IHRB has established a number of organisations and initiatives that are now free-standing, namely: the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (MCRB), Centro Regional de Empresas y Emprendimientos Responsables (CREER), the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB), and the Centre for Sport and Human Rights (CSHR). IHRB's focus areas are diverse and reflect the most salient and emerging human rights issues facing business, including the ubiquitous contribution of migrant workers across global supply chains, ensuring "just transitions" for workers and communities in the adaptation to low-carbon economies, and improving efforts to address inequality, mass migration, and climate change through better decision making ac (...)

Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests

Interests:

Climate action
Environment
Justice and fundamental rights
Maritime affairs and fisheries

Levels of Interest:

european
global

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: We will be responding to consultations on corporate governance and mandatory human rights due diligence, Just Transition, sustainable finance and any on Myanmar.

Communication Activities: https://www.ihrb.org/focus-areas/information-communication-technology/report-ict-human-rights-sector-guide https://www.ihrb.org/focus-areas/migrant-workers/report-employment-recruitment-agencies-human-rights-sector-guide https://www.ihrb.org/focus-areas/commodities/report-oil-gas-human-rights-sector-guidehttps://www.ihrb.org/focus-areas/myanmar/ihrb-open-letter-to-eu-regarding-myanmar#:~:text=IHRB%20has%20today%20sent%20an,But%20Arms%20(EBA)%20arrangement.&text=does%20not%20support%20general%20economic%20sanctions%20on%20Myanmar.

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: Climate change, biodiversity and sustainable development

Head Office

Address: Railview Lofts19c Commercial Road

Post Code: BN21 3XE

City: Eastbourne

Country: UNITED KINGDOM

Phone:

Indic Phone: 44

Phone Number: 2034114333

EU Office

Address: Railview Lofts19c Commercial Road

Post Code: BN21 3XE

City: Eastbourne

Country: UNITED KINGDOM

Phone:

Indic Phone: 44

Phone Number: 2034114333

Financial Data

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Currency: €
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Buffer:
0: 104
1: 64
2: 60
3: 206
4: 158
5: 212
6: 182
7: 32
8: 86
9: 89
10: 249
11: 91

Total Budget: 2407716

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Membership Information

Members25 Percent: 1

Members: 1

Members F T E: 0.25

Structure

Structure Type: Structure

Is Member Of: We are an independent organisation. We do not have members, and neither are we a member of any organisations. IHRB has ECOSOC status with the UN.

Organisation Members: n/a