The BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark
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BankTrack's Human Rights Benchmark assesses commercial banks on the extent to which they are implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, as part of our campaign to ensure banks fully meet the responsibility to respect human rights.
The BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024 is out now. Previous global benchmarks were published in 2014, 2016, 2019 and 2022.
Our previous benchmark report was the Human Rights Benchmark Latin America, released March 2024.
As part of our benchmarking project, we also assess the responses of banks to specific alleged human rights impacts associated with their finance. Our Response Tracking database displays the results, which were also summarised in the May 2024 Actions Speak Louder briefing paper.
This page presents the results of our Global and Regional Human Rights Benchmark reports in order of publication.
Jump to:
- BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024
- BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark Latin America (2024)
- BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark (2022)
- BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark Asia (2022)
- BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark Africa (2021)
- BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark (2019)
BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark 2024
BankTrack’s 2024 Global Human Rights Benchmark again assessed 50 of the largest commercial banks globally. While once again no commercial banks are fully meeting the UN Guiding Principles, two banks were ranked as 'leaders' and there has been some progress in the development of remedy mechanisms.
This year’s Benchmark also assesses for the first time banks’ policies on Indigenous Peoples’ right to Free, Prior and Informed Consent; the protection of human rights defenders; and the human right to a healthy environment.
- Full report (PDF)
- Media release
- Launch webinar coming January 2025: watch this space!
BankTrack Human Rights Benchmark Latin America (2024)
BankTrack’s first Regional Benchmark for Latin America assessed 17 major commercial banks headquartered in Latin America. It found that all banks assessed meeting fewer than half of their responsibilities under the UN Guiding Principles. The Benchmark covers banks headquartered in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Peru and Argentina, as well as subsidiaries of international banks. It forms the latest part of BankTrack’s Human Rights Benchmark report series, and is its third regional benchmark, after similar reports covering banks in Africa and Asia (covered below on this page.
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Translated versions: Portuguesa (PDF), Español (PDF).
BankTrack Global Human Rights Benchmark (2022)
BankTrack’s 2022 Human Rights Benchmark assessed 50 of the largest commercial banks globally. It found that no commercial banks are fully meeting the UN Guiding Principles. Although there was some progress since 2019, no banks were ranked as 'leaders' and there has been a lack of action to address key gaps on reporting and remedy.