Taken to the Tribunals: Why International Investment Treaties Are Bad for...
Every year, alongside our annual members' meeting, MiningWatch Canada holds a workshop/seminar on our work across the country and around the world, with a special focus on a topic that we think is...
View ArticleCompanies & Climate Change: Legal Liability & Human Rights Challenges After...
The International Bar Association, Washington College of Law’s Center for Human Rights & Humanitarian Law, Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, Center for International Environmental Law,...
View ArticleStrategic Litigation on Modern Slavery in Global Value Chains
Global supply chains and modern slavery are major themes in the world in 2016 with initiatives that should build in 2017 and 2018 if momentum can be sustained. The ILO, G7, EU, and World Bank all have...
View ArticlePress release: "Independent Report Recommends how FIFA Needs to Manage the...
An independent report issued today by John Ruggie, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School and former top United Nations official on business and...
View ArticleFull report: "For the Game. For the World: FIFA & Human Rights"
In December 2015, FIFA asked me to develop recommendations on what it means for FIFA to embed respect for human rights across its global operations...FIFA has been beset by allegations about human...
View Article"The new US ban on slave labor imports appears to have teeth"
14 April A new rule to ban the US import of products made with forced labor could mean trouble for companies whose supply chains reach into the darkest corners of the global labor market. Last week,...
View ArticleSOMO/Both Ends rejoinder to Atradius and Dutch dredging companies regarding...
SOMO and Both Ends sent the following statement, following responses by Atradius, Boskalis and Van Oord to the report "Dredging in the Dark". Atradius DSB – operating on behalf of the Dutch Government...
View ArticlePress release: "Ten of the world’s biggest food and beverage companies battle...
Nine of the “Big 10” global food and beverage companies have improved their ratings by at least 10 percent in three years since Oxfam began keeping score through its “Behind the Brands” scorecard....
View ArticleFull report: "The Journey to Sustainable Food: A three-year update on the...
In February 2013, Oxfam launched the Behind the Brands campaign to challenge the ‘Big 10’ food and beverage companies on their social and environmental policies and practices, and to amplify the...
View ArticleLaunch of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment (London, 4 May)
We are pleased to invite you to the launch of the Leadership Group for Responsible Recruitment. A collaboration between five leading global companies and expert organisations, the Leadership Group...
View ArticleCandidates for UN Working Group member from Western Europe, North America &...
New UN Working Group member to be appointed during 32nd session of the UN Human Rights Council (13 Jun - 1 Jul 2016) Mr. Ilias BANTEKASGreece Ms. Joanne BAUERUnited States of America Ms. Nadia...
View ArticleThailand: Environmental groups challenge junta order that eases regulations...
18 Apr 2016 A network of eight provincial environmental protection groups and the EnLawThai Foundation (EnLaw)…filed a joint petition to the Administrative Court of Bangkok against National Council...
View ArticleWorkers reinstated in deal to end Cavite EPZA strike
16 Apr 2016 The five day strike at an electronics subcon in the Cavite EPZA, the country’s biggest export zone, ended…with the reinstatement of workers earlier fired for union activities. Striking...
View ArticlePhilippines: Seung Yeun Technology Industries reinstates union members...
(Photo by Partidong Manggagawa) On 11 April 2016, workers of Seung Yeun Technology Industries (SYTIC) went on strike to demand the reinstatement of 20 workers allegedly dismissed for union activities,...
View ArticlePaper assesses impact of US Supreme Court Kiobel decision on transnational...
"Transnational Human Rights Litigations. Kiobel's Touch and Concern: A Test under Construction", 14 Apr 2016 [T]he object of this article is to analyze the test created by the Supreme Court of the...
View ArticleActualités Hebdomadaires du 20 avril : Lutte contre la discrimination à...
Vous trouverez ici un aperçu des meilleurs articles et des sujets brûlants relatifs aux entreprises et aux droits de l'homme. Avec les réponses des entreprises aux allégations ainsi que des annonces...
View ArticleCanadian courts review series of claims filed against Canadian mining...
"Wave of foreign lawsuits against local miners hits Canadian courts", 19 Apr 2016 In the coming months, the [British Columbia] BC Supreme Court is expected to decide whether a civil claim against a...
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