Business and Human Rights Module: A hands-on guide to equip reporters, students and researchers on covering the corporate world from a human rights lens.
Chapters
Explore how you can incorporate a responsible business framework in your reportage of the corporate world
Explore how you can incorporate a responsible business framework in your reportage of the corporate world
The Gaps
What’s missing in our business reporting and coverage?
The Policies
What is the legal framework to understand responsible business conduct
The Intersections
Why robust business reportage is intersectional, inclusive and representative.
The Essentials
What are the tools and skills that can facilitate more robust corporate reportage
Safety, Security, Privacy
How to make sure your information is safe and your stories impactful
How To Report in a Pandemic
Reporting in the times of COVID-19
How-to Guide
Learn how you can use key documents & tools in your reportage, with an easy step-by-step guide
Learn how you can use key documents & tools in your reportage, with an easy step-by-step guide
how to
file a RTI and navigate the roadblocks?
how to
find and use the data on corporate social responsibility (CSR)?
What
information about Indian companies can you find in foreign sources?
how to
find data on land, environments and wildlife conflicts?
how to
find data on real estate?
how to
read financial documents: annual reports, balance sheets & audit reports?
how to
find company details?
what can
Business Responsibility and Sustainability (BRSR) Report tell you?
Videobook
Prefer watching to reading. A playlist of our module covers all the basics.
Prefer watching to reading. A playlist of our module covers all the basics.
While the focus of the Companies Act relates to the complete lifecycle of a company, there is a lot that needs addition in the Act in relation to the responsibilities of companies towards, say, human rights. Till the time that happens, it is essential that companies act on their own accord, or through critical scrutiny of third parties like Civil Society and Media..Ranjana Das
Lead – Private Sector Engagement, Oxfam India.
Areas like accounting standards, modes of financing, and international trade rules are integral to business reporting, but no structured training is provided. For effective business reporting, the knowledge gap between the reporters and the businesses they cover should be bridged.John Samuel Raja
Co-founder, How India Lives
Sixty nine of the largest economies of the world today are businesses. If you have these kinds of companies who are bigger than many countries, it is all the more important that businesses adopt a rights based approach.Harpreet Kaur
Business & Human Rights Specialist, UNDP
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What is this module about?
This module has been developed by Oxfam India in collaboration with Newsworthy. As part of its responsible business work, Oxfam India has been engaging extensively with all relevant stakeholders.
Media reportage of the corporate world is dominated by coverage of financial performances and industrial highs and lows. News coverage about them remains lopsided, with little focus on the footprints corporates leave behind on social, political and ecological fabrics.
The aim of this Module is to equip journalists, students, and researchers interested in exploring how the world of business impacts people, communities and the natural world with the skills, perspectives and resources.

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