Business and Human Rights Centre

📢 Coming up this week! Register now for the virtual launch of our new global analysis, which reveals that in 2025 there were nearly 800 attacks against defenders in 80 countries raising concerns about business-related human rights risks and harms.

Our expert panel will discuss:
➡️ Our key findings about the scope and scale of attacks on defenders, including the most dangerous countries, sectors, and companies
➡️ Our analysis of worsening trends, such as the impact of technology on civic space and increasing business influence on geopolitics
➡️ Example case studies spotlighting civil society resistance and resilience

Our panel:
🟢Hannah Matthews - BHRC
🟢Muhammad Syukron Anshori - Asia Indigenous Peoples Network on Extractive Industries and Energy (AIPNEE)
🟢Patricia Carrión - Comisión Ecuménica de Derechos Humanos (CEDHU), Ecuador
🟢Brighton Aryampa - Youth for Green Communities, Uganda

🔗 Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_furvAdOjSe6Tn6SQ_HIJWQ #/registration

📸 Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN)

The 2025 US tariffs didn’t just reshape trade - they reshaped livelihoods too.

Our new analysis shows that some of the heaviest costs of the US tariffs fell on those least able to bear them: women workers on apparel factory floors.

As brands shifted orders and squeezed prices to protect their margins, garment workers found themselves facing layoffs, hunger and rising risks of exploitation.

The response to the tariff crisis reveals a systemic failure by brands who continue to treat human rights as optional when commercial pressures arise.

Read the full report ➡️ https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/briefings/us-tariffs/commercial-priorities-human-costs-brand-purchasing-practices-during-the-us-tariff-crisis?utm_source=facebook_bhrrc&utm_medium=facebook_bhrrc&utm_campaign=2604UsTariffs&utm_content=social

📸ILO/ Guillaume Megevand

Meet our new Director for International Programmes!

We're delighted to welcome Zibusiso Wayne Ncube to the Business and Human Rights Centre. Wayne joins us from Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa, where as National Director he provided leadership to a staff of 80 across four offices.

In addition to his extensive insight into human rights and social justice issues and strong track record of policy advocacy, Wayne brings deep connections with grassroots communities, worker organisations, and civil society across Africa.

Welcome, Wayne!