The Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights (BLIHR) is a
programme to help lead and develop the corporate response to human rights. It is a business-led programme with 14 corporate members.
BLIHR is chaired by Mary Robinson, President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The programme was created in 2003 and will end in March 2009.
Our principal purpose is to find "practical ways of applying the aspirations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within a business context and to inspire other businesses to do likewise". In our second three-year period until 2009 we are committed to sharing our tools and experiences not only within the group but with all interested companies. |
Today, few questionthe central tenet
that "all organs of society" including
business have responsibilities with
respect to advancing the protection
of human rights. This is a clear sign of
the growing recognition that human
rights are "everyone's business". 
