The Business & Human Rights Resource Center has become the world’s leading independent resource on the subject. The website is updated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide – positive and negative. They also seek responses from companies concerning allegations of misconduct: thus ensuring that coverage is balanced and encourages companies to address concerns raised by society.
The website covers over 4000 companies and over 180 countries. It receives over 1.5 million hits per month. Topics include discrimination, environment, poverty & development, labor, access to medicines, health & safety, security, trade. Most information on the site is free and open to the public, and filters exist that track regional reports. In addition to offering information on LGBT rights, there are also reports on minorities and the disabled.
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