Stern Center for Business and Human Rights Plans New Project
The Center for Business and Human Rights at the NYU Stern School of Business will start a new research project to promote human rights in the supply chain for construction labor that runs from South Asia to the Arabian Gulf. The focus of the project will be to examine business practices among recruitment agencies that make workers more vulnerable to exploitation and abuse.
The center‘s research will focus on relationships among recruitment companies based in South Asia and construction firms doing business in the Arabian Gulf. The goal of the project is to better understand the incentives and pressures that exist at different points in the chain that are contributing to violations of migrant workers’ rights. The Center expects to publish a report with findings and recommendations in early 2016.
Stern Center for Biz and Human Rights Writes to Obama Admin.
The directors of the Center for Business and Human Rights at the New York University Stern School of Business wrote to President Obama after his administration announced that it would begin the process of writing a national action plan to examine the impact of business on global human rights. In a letter to President Obama, the authors urged the administration to look closely at certain sectors that are at particularly high risk for human rights violations including information technology, private security contracting and extractives and mining.
The letter also called for the U.S. Agency on International Development (USAID) to consider its role in assisting U.S. companies looking to protect human rights in the global supply chain.
