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Series Momentum for change: UK public joins business and civil society to demand new Business, Human Rights and Environment law
The call for the UK Government to table a new UK law to root out corporate supply chain abuses - wherever they take place – is rapidly building. Georgina Berriman and Mark Dearn from the Corporate Justice Coalition survey the case for change.
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Post Five take-aways from the 2021 Binding Treaty negotiations
Dominic Renfrey from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Treaty Alliance reflects on the negotiations on the third revised draft of the Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights
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Post Putting Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the business and human rights agenda
In these countries, the narrative has been “development now, everything else later” – with that “everything else” encompassing the environment, sustainability and human rights.
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Series Trade, climate and human rights – at odds or reconcilable?
Cornelia Maarfield from Climate Action Network Europe explores how unsustainable patterns of trade have driven deforestation and environmental destruction, and proposes new trade rules.
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Series A New Trade Vision for a Green New Deal
As world leaders meet at the UN climate negotiations in Glasgow civil society groups are launching a new resource to outline the threats that trade and investment treaties pose to climate action.
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Post Why is the EU still absent in UN negotiations on human rights rules for business?
Opinion by MEPs Heidi Hautala (Greens/EFA), Maria Soraya Rodriguez Ramos (RENEW), Maria Arena (S&D) and Manon Aubry (The Left)
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Series Has Sweden lost its way on human rights?
Sweden's lack of ambition on corporate accountablity is at odds with the country's positive track record of upholding human rights and international solidarity, write Louise Lindfors, Sofia Hedström and Sanna Ström
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Series How the Energy Charter Treaty allows corporate power to derail climate action
The ECT allows fossil fuel companies to obstruct climate action by suing states for huge sums in compensation. There are increasing calls for countries to withdraw from the Treaty, as the ECT Secretariat seeks new signatories in the Global South.
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