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briefing Business and human rights in the United States: Four key trends in 2025
This is a pivotal moment for US business. In a context of shifting political and regulatory landscapes, companies’ core human rights policies and commitments remain largely unchanged – but their responses to changing policies, regulations and rhetoric in the US paint a more alarming picture.
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briefing Strategic projects for whom? Challenges and local realities of the European Union's strategic mineral projects
The European Commission approved 60 "strategic" mineral extraction, processing, recycling and substitution projects in 2025 under the mandate of the Critical Raw Materials Act. We examined the human rights policies and practices of the companies behind the 13 projects located outside EU borders.
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briefing Transition minerals, old inequalities in Brazil: Mining, justice and the climate agenda at COP30
Brazil is at a crossroads as it seeks to solidify its climate leadership at COP30. For the country to truly assert legitimate climate leadership, it needs to ensure that COP discussions centre human rights, environmental justice, and a commitment to fully remedy historical injustices and harms. Joint briefing by Instituto Cordilheira and BHRRC.
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briefing Transition Minerals Tracker 2025: Asia and the Pacific
Since 2010, the Transition Minerals Tracker has recorded 835 allegations of human rights and environmental abuse linked to the extraction of key minerals needed to power the global energy transition. In the Asia-Pacific region, notable cases of abuse have arisen over the last 14 years. As the world races to meet ambitious climate goals, they are looking to mineral-rich countries in Asia-Pacific to provide the elements needed to power a “fast” transition to renewable energy.
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briefing Transition Minerals Tracker 2025: Africa
Since 2010, the Transition Minerals Tracker has been recording allegations of human rights and environmental abuse linked to the extraction of key minerals needed to power the global energy transition. Nearly 200 allegations were linked to the mining of transition minerals in Africa, accounting for more than 20 per cent of all abuse allegations globally.
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briefing “We were treated as if we were machines”: Migrant workers powering Saudi Arabia’s energy transition
Testimony from 34 migrant workers employed on nine renewable energy projects in Saudi Arabia reveals a litany of alleged human rights abuses. This briefing analyses the public human rights commitments of 16 companies linked to these projects and sets out recommendations for the sector.
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briefing Renewable energy and human rights benchmark 2025
The Renewable Energy and Human Rights Benchmark assesses and scores the human rights policies and practices, as well as low-carbon transition planning efforts, of 35 leading companies across the renewable energy supply chain. This year's analysis reveals renewable energy companies across all categories have made some progress on salient human rights risks for the sector – although crucial gaps remain.
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briefing Advancing human rights due diligence in Japan: Evidence-based insights and recommendations for NAP revision
This policy note, jointly prepared by the World Benchmarking Alliance and the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, offers recommendations for Japan’s revised National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (NAP 2.0).
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briefing Videos: Canadian companies in Colombia
Canada’s reputation on the global stage is based on high human rights standards and progressive climate action. Yet in Colombia – which the Canadian government describes as an "attractive market" for industries including mining, defence and security, agriculture, and oil and gas – communities affected by the operations of these industries report a litany of human rights abuses. This documentary series explores the uncomfortable gap between Canada’s image and its impact abroad, asking what happens when profit is prioritised over people.
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briefing By design or by default: the gendered harms of the tech industry
New joint research by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and the World Benchmarking Alliance reveals that some of the world’s most powerful technology companies are falling dangerously short in protecting the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people across their operations, products, and services.
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