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News, Social | 03 March 2017

Building on ten years of efforts to advance the finance and human rights agenda with its members, UNEP FI is…

News, Social | 15 February 2017

The online Guidance Tool on Human Rights for the Finance Sector is UNEP FI’s trusted tool to assist lenders in…

News, Social | 01 February 2017

UNEP FI shares its report with takeaways from the 2016 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, which took place in…

News, Social | 31 January 2017

Foley Hoag LLP and UNEP FI collaborated on a research paper offering a legal analysis of the current banking and…

Events, News, Social | 21 October 2016

14-16 November 2016 | Geneva
The UN Forum on Business and Human Rights is the leading global event on business and human rights, gathering each year some 2,300 participants from government, business, civil society, law firms, UN bodies, academia and the media.
The Forum focused this year on “Leadership and Leverage: Embedding human rights in the rules and relationships that drive the global economy.” It addressed the role of financial institutions in respect to human rights as one of its three main focus areas.

Social | 08 October 2016

About UNEP FI works with members and partners to embed social and human rights into mainstream finance. The Social and…

Banking, Publications, Social | 17 December 2015

Examining banking and human rights from a UN Guiding Principles, hard law and soft law perspective

Publications, Social | 23 June 2008

This Briefing clarifies how human rights relate to the activities of financial institutions and develops practical tools and guidance that can be used by the sector to better assess and manage its human rights-related risks.

Publications, Social | 27 August 2004

This collection explores opportunities for financial institutions to manage interactions between finance and conflict.

Publications, Social | 27 October 2003

A summary of linkages between finacial institutions' activities and conflict related risks