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Overview
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Lobbying Costs
None declared
Financial year: Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5 Fte (4)
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
0
High-level Commission meetings
2
Lobbying Costs over the years
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Info
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)
EU Transparency Register
139172541931-81 First registered on 23 Mar 2021
Goals / Remit
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is an international NGO dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse.
We strengthen communities, workers, and organizations to create relationships with businesses that respect and advance human rights and build shared prosperity through greater equality. We seek to amplify and support the voices of human rights advocates in civil society, companies, investors and governments who seek to align business models and corporate behaviour with human rights.
We have staff based across the Global South, well-grounded in the communities they work with. We focus on three approaches to deliver our work: *We strengthen our partners and allies through capacity-building and amplifying their voices. *We collect data about companies’ human rights performance and use trackers and benchmarks to engage and encourage companies, investors, and governments. *We encourage respect for human rights and democratic freedoms.Main EU files targeted
• Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
• Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
• Critical Raw Materials Act
• AI Act
• EU Forced Labour Import Ban
• EU Commission Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth
• European Green DealAddress
Head Office
The Foundry, 17 Oval Way
London SE11 5RR
UNITED KINGDOMEU Office
The Foundry, 17 Oval Way
London SE11 5RR
UNITED KINGDOMWebsite
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People
Total lobbyists declared
4
Employment time Lobbyists 75% 2 50% 2 Lobbyists (Full time equivalent)
2.5
Lobbyists with EP accreditation
No lobbyists with EP accreditations
Complementary Information
Several team members are involved in the detailed activities, as part of their day to day work, brining the voices of impacted Rights Holders to decision makers.
Person in charge of EU relations
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
Person with legal responsibility
Data not provided by Register Secretariat due to GDPR
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Categories
Category
Non-governmental organisations, platforms and networks and similar
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Networking
Affiliation
The Resource centre supports the partners and allies in the Business and Human Rights movement. We offer support, sometimes financial to grassroots organization. When appropriate we apply for funding together with our partners.
We pay membership fees to the corporate Justice Coalition: https://corporatejusticecoalition.org/Member organisations
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre is a company limited by guarantee and not having a share capital (no. 04555494). It is governed by its Memorandum and Articles of Association, incorporated on 7 October 2002 and amended by a written resolution dated 12 March 2003 and then more recently by a special resolution dated 9 June 2016. It is also registered as a charity in England & Wales (no. 1096664).
Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has four subsidiaries:
- A US subsidiary, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (US) Ltd, which is a tax-exempt non-profit organization under section 501(c)(3) of the US Internal Revenue Code;
- An Australian subsidiary, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (Australia, New Zealand and Pacific) Limited, which is a public company limited by guarantee;
-A subsidiary in Colombia - Centro De Informacion Sobre Emprasas Y Derechos Humanos (Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) – a registered foreign non-profit organisation;
- A subsidiary in Berlin, Germany - Business and Human Rights Resource Centre e. V. registered on 22 April 2020 under German Civil Code (BGB) and confirmed as a charitable not for profit entity under German Fiscal Code (AO) (§§ 51, 59, 60 and 61).
The Resource Centre’s US, Colombian, German and Australia, New Zealand and Pacific activities are carried out in conjunction with those of the UK charity, reflecting the respective statutory, charitable purposes which in substance align across the group, and managed by the Executive Director. These entities are treated as subsidiaries for the purpose of producing group accounts. -
Financial Data
Interests represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Closed financial year
Mar 2022 - Feb 2023
Lobbying costs for closed financial year
Since 20 September 2021 self-declared 'non-commercial organisations' are no longer required to provide a lobby budget. See above timeline for this registrant's historical lobby budget.
Total organisational budget in closed year
5,474,627€
Major funding types in closed year
Grants, EU funding, Public funding
Major contributions in closed year
Type Name Amount Contribution Open Society Foundation 1,012,088€ Contribution Ford Foundation 244,888€ Contribution Finland MFA 250,959€ Contribution Humanity United 592,807€ Contribution Laudes Foundation 846,256€ Contribution European Climate Foundation 82,250€ Contribution GIZ 175,021€ Contribution OXFAM GB 97,409€ Contribution National Endowment for Democracy 229,188€ Contribution Waverly Street Foundation 70,743€ Grant EU Cambodia EIDHR 43,695€ Grant EU Türkiye External Action IPA 2021/ 425-046 28,494€ Other financial info
We have a Development Team of five staff, who work full-time on fundraising and grant management. We do
not have any voluntary fundraisers working on our behalf, and we do not use external fundraising agencies or
commercial participators to deliver any of our fundraising.
Our approach to fundraising is driven by respect, honesty and openness. We respect the wishes and
preferences of all of our supporters and beneficiaries, and are sensitive to the needs of every individual. We are
open and inclusive to all, regardless of visible and invisible differences. And we are accountable for delivering a
high standard of fundraising.
We make every effort to ensure that our fundraising does not intrude on peoples’ privacy, that it is not
unreasonably persistent, and that it does not place pressure on anyone to donate to our organisation. The
Development Team monitors its own fundraising activities and presents its work to the Senior Management
Team and Board for evaluation and approval on a regular basis.
To strengthen our relationship with supporters, we continue to develop new approaches to supporter
engagement. By gaining insights from our supporter base through regular communication, we are aware of
what matters to our supporters and seek to align our database, technology and practices with supporter
expectations. We aspire to best practice in the way we engage our supporters, and our fundraising activity has
only generated complaints twice in the past ten years. We encourage any supporters with questions about our
fundraising to contact us.
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EU Structures
Groups (European Commission)
None declared
Groups (European Parliament)
N/A
Communication activities
• We released a briefing with recommendations on how due diligence legislation can effectively amplify the voices of affected people in October 2021, based on online consultations with CSOs in Africa, Asia and Latin America. More information here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/hearing-the-human-ensuring-due-diligence-legislation-effectively-amplifies-the-voices-of-those-affected-by-irresponsible-business/
• In the same month, we published key considerations for mandating effective due diligence beyond social auditing and ticking-the-box approaches, see here: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/beyond-social-auditing-key-considerations-for-mandating-effective-due-diligence/
• In December 2021, we co-ordinated a letter from B&HR experts and leaders to President von der Leyen and the EU Commission regarding the Sustainable Corporate Governance initiative: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/business-human-rights-experts-leaders-issue-joint-statement-to-president-von-der-leyen-eu-commission-on-delay-to-sustainable-corporate-governance-initiative/
• In February 2022, we helped facilitate a business call, signed by over 100 companies and investors, for effective EU mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/eu-mandatory-due-diligence-2022/ • In February 2023, BHRRC, the European Parliament Working Group on Responsible Business Conduct and the European Coalition of Corporate Justice co-organised an event “Corporate sustainability due diligence – Making it work” in Brussels. More here: https://corporatejustice.org/news/event-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-making-it-work/
• We released a briefing in May 2023 on workers’ priorities for the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, drawing from workshops in Phnom Penh (Cambodia), New Delhi (India), Nairobi (Kenya) and Kampala (Uganda): https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/engagement-remedy-justice-priorities-for-the-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-from-workers-in-the-global-south/
• In December 2023, BHRRC’s Executive Director Phil Bloomer co-authored a piece with Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, commenting on the political CSDDD agreement in EU trilogue: https://www.newsweek.com/how-change-can-end-corporate-abuse-opinion-1854646
• We published our own reaction to the final confirmation of the CSDDD in May 2024 and documented others’: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/bhrrc-comments-on-final-csddd-adoption/
• We have been part of an informal coalition to discuss gaps in current protections for civil society organisations and human rights defenders in Europe, and explore ways towards a more comprehensive ecosystem for their protection: https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/protection-mechanism-for-hrds-and-csos-in-europe/Other activities
None declared
- Meetings
Meetings
2 meetings found. Download meetings
The list below only covers meetings held since November 2014 with commissioners, their cabinet members or directors-general at the European Commission; other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may have taken place, but the European Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. For more information about which commissioner is responsible for which portfolio, check out this link: https://commissioners.ec.europa.eu/index_en All information below comes from European Commission web pages.
1 July 2024: We have noted that some meetings are appearing in duplicate, ie. some meetings seem to be listed twice. This seems to be because the Commission changes some element of a meeting data after the meeting has first been listed, which causes LobbyFacts to register it as a new meeting. We are investigating further.
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Date 11 Jan 2022 Location video call Subject Mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis Portfolio An Economy that Works for People Attending - Andrea Beltramello (Cabinet member)
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Date 12 Nov 2021 Location Online Subject EU Sustainable Corporate Governance Cabinet Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager Portfolio Europe Fit for Digital Age Attending - Werner Stengg (Cabinet member)
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