The UK Government has today announced that it will be supporting the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, the first wide-scale project to rank companies on their human rights performance.

Corporate Human Rights Benchmark is led by Aviva Investors, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Calvert Investments, EIRIS, the Institute for Human Rights and Business, and  VBDO.

Business Minister Jo Swinson said:

"We are throwing our weight behind this benchmarking project, which will make it easy for people to understand corporate human rights performance, see how companies fare in the rankings and enable investors and regulators to challenge those whose performance is behind those of others.

 

I encourage other countries to join us in supporting the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, which will be an invaluable resource to protect the rights of vulnerable people in the UK and around the world."

Read more about the Benchmark