The Northern Ireland Business and Human Rights Forum has produced a human rights policy statement which reflects the values of the forum. It is open for all to sign-up to, but this is not a pre-requisite of joining the forum or attending forum meetings.
We submitted evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ Human Rights and Business Inquiry in July 2016.
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission further submitted a detailed policy response to the Joint Committee on Human Rights’ Human Rights and Business Inquiry in July 2016.
Our Chief Commissioner, Les Allamby, recently submitted an oral statement to the 35th Session of the UN Human Rights Council on business and human rights. You can watch the joint statement written by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, the Scottish Human Rights Commission and the Equality and Human Rights Commission here or read it here.
The current Chair of the Forum is Glenn Bradley, Ethical Trade Manager of Hardscape, while the Vice-Chair is Kerry Kelly, Head of Compliance for Staffline Ireland.
Following our October meeting, we put together this document which contains links to resources on Modern Slavery. Clicking on each link will automatically redirect you to that website or document.
