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Institute for Human Rights & Business

Acronym: IHRB

General Information

Identification Code: 502528740269-60
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: charity
Registration Category: Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
Registration Date: 11/30/2020
Last Update: 3/20/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

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
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EU Office

Address: Railview Lofts19c Commercial Road
Post Code: BN21 3XE
City: Eastbourne
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: [object Object]

Financial Data

New Organisation: false
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Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 1
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
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