ICAR hosted its Sixth Annual Meeting on September 8-9, 2016 at the American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. This two day convening brought together ICAR members and partners from the Business and Human Rights and Corporate Accountability movement to freely explore new ideas, share tactics, and strategize for the future.

The UK Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights is currently conducting an inquiry on human rights and business. In response to a call for written evidence, ICAR wrote a submission on the topic of human rights and public procurement of apparel in the U.K.

Today the International Learning Lab on Public Procurement and Human Rights, a project of organizations including ICAR, DIHR, and the Harrison Institute at Georgetown University, is pleased to announce the publication of its first report, entitled "Public Procurement and Human Rights: A Survey of Twenty Jurisdictions."

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) and ten other civil society organizations sent a letter to President Obama and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) today, calling for the administration to fully implement the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (FFATA).

On March 24, 2016, ICAR and the Harrison Institute at Georgetown University Law Center hosted a webinar on supply chain transparency. The webinar provides case studies illustrating the need for federal contractors to disclose their supply chains.

During the first workshop held by the Learning Lab, speakers gave remarks about the importance of public procurement as a tool to ensure businesses respect human rights. They also made clear statements of support for the Learning Lab and its potential to increase the inclusion of human rights considerations in the public procurement process.

On 19 November the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR), the Harrison Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, and the Public Procurement Research Group at the University of Nottingham's School of Law will launch the first international workshop of the Learning Lab on Public Procurement and Human Rights. The workshop will take place in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Learning Lab is a network of government policy makers, government procurement agencies and procurement officers, NGOs, academics, national human rights institutions, regional and international organizations, and other relevant actors.

ICAR hosted its Fifth Annual Meeting on September 10-11, 2015 at the Georgetown Law Human Rights Institute in Washington, D.C. This two day convening brought together ICAR members and partners from the Business and Human Rights and Corporate Accountability movement to freely explore new ideas, share tactics, and strategize for the future.

Together with Professor Robert Stumberg of the Harrison Institute at Georgetown University Law Center, ICAR has published a submission to the U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on Responsible Business Conduct in order to provide guidance to the U.S. government on embedding human rights protections in federal procurement policy within the existing authority of the Executive Branch. 

ICAR is pleased to release the Pillar III section of its "Shadow" National Baseline Assessment (NBA) of U.S. implementation of business and human rights frameworks, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Today, ICAR is pleased to release its "Shadow" National Baseline Assessment (NBA) for Pillar I of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) for the United States. Alongside the release of the NBA, ICAR has also developed a set of 110 recommendations, organized by government entity, for the U.S. government to consider in shaping the content of the U.S. National Action Plan (NAP) on Responsible Business Conduct.

ICAR hosted its Fourth Annual Meeting on September 11-12, 2014 at the George Washington School of Law in Washington D.C. This two day convening brought together ICAR members and partners from the Business and Human Rights and Corporate Accountability movement to freely explore new ideas, share tactics, and strategize for the future.

This report seeks to provide a preliminary road map of ways in which the procurement process can be used to leverage the U.S. government’s immense purchasing power to push government suppliers to respect human rights. 

ICAR hosted its Third Annual Meeting on September 12-13, 2013 in Washington D.C. This two day convening brought together ICAR members and partners from the Business and Human Rights and Corporate Accountability movement to freely explore new ideas, share tactics, and strategize for the future.

The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable launches the “Government Procurement Project.” Governments at the federal and state level are large purchasers of goods and services and can therefore exert a tremendous amount of leverage on corporate actors to comply with requirements to compete for these lucrative contracts.

ICAR hosted its Second Annual Meeting on September 6-7, 2012 in Washington D.C. This two day convening brought together ICAR members and partners from the Business and Human Rights and Corporate Accountability movement to freely explore new ideas, share tactics, and strategize for the future.