Five On Friday – Five Recent Developments That We've Been Watching Closely

It's Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we've been monitoring.

This week's post includes: a new report on the state of corporate human rights reporting; the passage of a shareholder resolution on climate change at Occidental Petroleum; and the latest Ministerial Declaration from the Labour and Employment Ministers of the G20.

• On May 10, Shift released a new report, Human Rights Reporting: Are Companies Telling Investors What They Need to Know, that analyzes the extent to which corporate human rights reporting is consistent with the expectations set forth in the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework. The report looks at recent human rights reports by 74 large multinational companies representing seven industry sectors. Notably, the report found that more than half of the companies did not specify in their reporting which human rights are