It is well known that business activities can have potentially negative impacts on human and environmental rights along global supply chains. The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) has a comprehensive collection of cases of potentially negative business-related impacts on the rights of those affected, mostly reported by journalists or civil society actors in partner countries. Together with the BHRRC and a data analyst, the German Institute for Human Rights has systematised some 15,000 individual cases and developed a 'Global Heat Map of Alleged Corporate Abuses'. The aim is to enable researchers and experts in the field of business and human rights to work systematically with the collected data, thereby increasing knowledge of the potential negative impacts of business activities on affected people.
