Business ethics violations 2023

The dynamic rise of business and human rights, both as a distinct field and as part of other areas of international regulatory compliance—such as:

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Americans already had a dismal view of the Supreme Court.
Now, the nation's highest court is confronting an ethics debacle that has thrusted the already bruised institution further into the headlines.

IHRB’s 2023 Top 10 list shines the spotlight on this important area, by exploring the roles and responsibilities of these sometimes less visible firms, and by proposing steps they should take to avoid links to human rights abuses and instead serve as responsible entities who foster corporate respect for human rights around the world.

Indeed, many issues that did not make our list—from public procurement laws and regulations that integrate human rights, to the continued recognition of gig and contract workers as employees with a right to a variety of benefits, to transition minerals—were prominent in 2022 and will be in 2023.

The dynamic rise of business and human rights, both as a distinct field and as part of other areas of international regulatory compliance—such as AML, sanctions, export controls and trade—makes it difficult to identify only 10 areas of focus for 2023

More than two-fifths of companies (44%) say they have fired or disciplined senior leadership for unethical conduct in the past year, according to a survey by ethics and compliance training firm LRN

LRN’s 2023 ethics and compliance program effectiveness report includes surveys of more than 1,800 compliance and ethics professionals at large organizations around the globe