Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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/

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Does not represent commercial interests

Apr 2023 - Mar 2024

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.

5,716,643€

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.

EU funding is funding project's implementation, not operating costs.

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• 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/

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The list below covers meetings with Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general (high-level) Commission meetings published December 2014 to December 2024, and the meetings of Commissioners/Cabinet members/Directors-general and officials holding "management functions" in the Commission published since 1 January 2025. Other lobby meetings with lower-level staff may well have taken place, but the Commission doesn't proactively publish information about these meetings. All information below comes from the Commission and not from the registrant.

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.

• 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)
  Other Lobbyists	Front Line Defenders

• 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)
  Other Lobbyists	Global Witness