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Learning calls

The Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (GANHRI) Working Group on Business and Human Rights conducts learning calls, designed to address emerging issues and enhance collaboration among NHRIs. These calls also contribute to facilitate an open exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of best practices among NHRIs.

For more information about the learning calls held throughout the year, please contact us at info@ganhri.org.

In 2024-2026, the Working Group explored the following themes during three learning calls:

  • Sports and Human Rights: Promoting Positive Impact and Addressing Sportswashing, providing NHRIs with practical insights into how sportswashing manifests, its human rights impacts, and how they can engage effectively with sport governance structures, states, and rights-holders (in April 2026).
  • Gender Equality, Business and Human Rights, providing an overview of the gender guidance for the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and showcasing NHRIs work on this issue (in July 2025).
  • Labour Migration, Business and Human Rights, aiming to contribute to the ongoing work of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights which will present a thematic report on labour migration to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly (in May 2025).
  • Labour Rights as Human Rights: Building Bridges for Collaboration Between NHRIs and Trade Unions,  in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO), discussing current challenges faced by workers and trade unions, global trends, including in access to remedial mechanisms, and good practices from NHRIs addressing labour issues (in February 2025).
  • Business, Human Rights, and Climate Change: Strengthening NHRI Strategies to Promote Sustainable Practices, emphasizing strategies for integrating climate considerations within human rights frameworks (in September 2024).
  • NHRIs’ Work with Businesses, sharing insights on fostering partnerships and aligning NHRI actions with business practices (in July 2024); 
  • Enhancing Human Rights Due Diligence: The Implementation of Mandatory Regulations, where participants discussed approaches to enforcing and operationalizing due diligence standards (in March 2024).

Back in December 2022, the Working Group hosted a learning call to discuss the protection of Human Rights Defenders working on Business and Human Rights. This learning call was part of a series of thematic online workshops destined to exchange experiences, spread good practice, and create a shared learning environment among NHRIs working on the topic.