We carry out and support multi-disciplinary research, facilitate learning exchanges , and undertake communications activities, to develop and advance a theoretical understanding as well as a practical application of a human rights-based approach within climate change and biodiversity law and policy.

Persons in conflict with the law, victims, and others in contact with justice institutions must be treated with dignity and respect. Vulnerable and marginalised groups in detention, imprisonment or non-custodial measures especially, must be treated in line with international standards and norms on human rights.

As an independent academic institution, we approach International Humanitarian Law from a non-partisan stance. The need for security should always be weighed against the rules that seek the protection of those affected by armed conflict and that limit the choice of means and methods of warfare by armed actors.

To us, 'Business and human rights' is also about ensuring the development of a policy environment where democratic stakeholders can hold economic decision makers, public as well as private ones, systematically accountable to international human rights standards.