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None of their Business? How the United Nations is Calling on Global Companies to Lead the Way on Human Rights of LGBTI people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2018

Dan BROSS ,
Fabrice HOUDART  and
Salil TRIPATHI
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Keywords

Guiding PrinciplesLGBT rightsBusiness and LGBT rightsDiscrimination
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Developments in the Field
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Business and Human Rights Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , July 2018 , pp. 271 - 276
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Footnotes

*

Senior Advisor, Article One Advisors; formerly Senior Director, Business and Corporate Responsibility, Microsoft.

**

Human Rights Officer, United Nations.

**

Senior Advisor, Global Issues, Institute for Human Rights and Business.

References

1 ‘Criminalizing Indonesia’s LGBT People Won’t Protect Them’, Kyle Knight (Researcher, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program), Asia Times, 14 February 2018.

2 ‘Starbucks Indonesia Clarifies Stance on LGBT Rights Following Recent Boycott’, Agnes Anya (http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2017/07/05/starbucks-indonesia-clarifies-stance-on-lgbt-rights-following-recent-boycott.html), The Jakarta Post, 5 July 2017.

3 ‘New Indonesia web system blocks more than 70,000 “negative’ sites” by Ed Davies and Cindy Silviana (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-indonesia-communications/new-indonesia-web-system-blocks-more-than-70000-negative-sites-idUSKCN1G30KA), Reuters, 19 February 2018.

4 Report of the Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, http://ap.ohchr.org/documents/dpage_e.aspx?si=A/72/172, 19 July 2017.

5 Human Rights Council resolution, Human rights, sexual orientation and gender identity (adopted 17 June 2011), A/HRC/RES/17/19

6 Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – United Nations Human Rights, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2011), http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/GuidingPrinciplesBusinessHR_EN.pdf.

7 ‘How a Once Taboo Topic Came out from the Shadows at Davos’, Lucy Marcus, BBC http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20160119-how-a-once-taboo-topic-came-out-from-the-shadows-at-davos, 20 January 2016.

8 Center for Talent Innovation’s report, ‘Out in the World: Securing LGBT Rights in the Global Marketplace’, Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Kenji Yoshino, http://www.talentinnovation.org/publication.cfm?publication=1510, 22 January 2016.

9 ‘Companies Hit Back at Legislation that Targets LGBT Community’, Shannon Bond and Barney Jopson, https://www.ft.com/content/54e1974a-02a8-11e6-9cc4-27926f2b110c, Financial Times, 15 April 2016.

10 ‘Mild Financial Fallout From Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Act’, Stephanie Keene, https://www.cov.com/-/media/files/corporate/publications/2014/07/law360_mild_financial_fallout_from_uganda_anti-homosexuality_act.pdf, Law360, 17 July 2014.

11 ‘50 Local Firms Throw Their Support Behind Pink Dot SG’, Vivienne Tay, http://www.marketing-interactive.com/50-local-firms-throw-their-support-behind-pink-dot-2017/, 27 March 2017.

12 See, for example ‘How India, Inc. is Raising its Voice against Sec 377’, https://www.firstpost.com/business/images-how-india-inc-is-raising-its-voice-against-sec-377-1285545.html, FirstPost, 21 December 2014; and ‘Brands Peek out of the Closet’, https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Brands-peek-out-of-the-closet/articleshow/27248253.cms, The Times of India, 12 December 2013.

13 Touch of Care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=7zeeVEKaDLM.

14 http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/GlobalStandards.aspx.

15 https://www.ihrb.org/.

16 The Standards are available online at: http://unfe.org/standards.

17 As many as 134 companies (listed on http://unfe.org/Standards) have already expressed support, and these are: ABN Amro, Accenture, Accor Hotels Group, Adidas, AirBNB, Airbus, Air Canada, Amalgamated Bank, American Airlines, Anglo-American, ANZ, A.T. Kearney, Avianca, Aviva, AXA, Baker McKenzie, Banca Comunicacao, Barclays, Barilla, The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), BDMG – Banco de Desenvolvimento de Minas Gerais, Ben & Jerry’s, Best Buy, Bloomberg L.P., BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Braskem, Burberry, Calvin Klein, The Carlyle Group, Cisco Systems Inc., Clifford Chance LLP, The Coca-Cola Company, Credit Suisse, De Beers, Demarest Advogados, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Post DHL Group, Diageo, Dow Chemicals, Eataly, EDF, EY, Fidelity International, Fotos Publicas, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, Generation Investment, The Gap, Godrej Industries, Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes, Google, Greenberg Traurig LLP, Gucci, H&M, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, Hermes Investment Management, Hogan Lovells LLP, HP, Hyatt, IKEA Group, Intel, JLL, Johnson & Johnson, JWT, KPMG, The Lalit Hotels, Lee, Brock, Camargo Advogados, Levi Strauss & Co., Lloyd’s, L’Oreal, Lufthansa, Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics, Marks & Spencer, Marsh, MAS Holdings, Marriott International, Mastercard, Mattos Filhos, Metro AG, Microsoft, McKinsey, MCV Advogadas, Monsanto, Nasdaq, Natura, Nestle, New York Life, Novartis, Oath, Panda Criativo, Orange, Pepsi Cola, PIMCO, Pinsent Masons LLP, The Phluid Project, PVH, PWC, Ralph Lauren Corp., RELX Group, RBS, Safilo Group S.p.A., Salesforce, Santander Group, SAP, Siemens, Simmons & Simmons, Schneider Electric SE, Smirnoff, SNC-Lavalin, Société Générale, Sodexo, Sonders and Beach Group, Spotify, Stanley Black & Decker, Suit Supply, Telefonica, Tesco, Thomson Reuters, Thyssen Krupp, Tommy Hilfiger, Trillium Asset Management, Twitter, Uber, Under Armour, Unilever, Veolia, Vert Asset Management, Viacom, Virgin, Vodafone, Watanabe Advogados, Westpac, Williams-Sonoma Inc and Xerox.