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Post Cerrejón Coal in Colombia: Access to justice and reparation become a chimera
Abuses at the Cerrejón Coal mine in Colombia, owned by Glencore, Anglo American and BHP, have been highlighted by marginalised communities, Colombian courts and the UN. Despite legal rulings and voluntary mechanisms, corporate impunity persists, as the mining companies evade responsibility. Human rights due diligence legislation and a binding treaty may help tackle the challenge of cross-border corporate practice.
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Post Public Beneficial Ownership: Can the European Court of Human Rights save financial transparency?
In 2022, the Sovim judgment of the European Court of Justice of the European Union struck down the requirement that ultimate beneficial ownership registries should be accessible to members of the general public. This is a serious setback to achieving financial transparency in the EU. We contend that the European legislator should amend the current anti-money laundering framework to provide that persons and organisations playing the role of “public watchdogs” have full, unfettered, right of access to the registries’ data.
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Post UK Seasonal Worker scheme endangers vulnerable foreign workers
Vulnerable workers from the poorest communities on our planet should not have to bear the real costs of our food system’s reliance on foreign workers to meet its demand. Decent work and responsible recruitment principles should not be set aside by a need to address labour shortages quickly, cheaply, and flexibly.
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Post Government action needed to tackle mining-related deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazilian Amazon and its peoples ‘unsustainably exploited’ by state tax policies and corporate profiteering, new reports from Christian Aid find.
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Series Duty failure: Scant evidence of effective due diligence by companies operating in Russia
Companies operating in Russia remain woefully unaware of their human rights responsibilities, Ella Skybenko of BHRRC finds.
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Series Not all parties are equal: understanding the responsibility for reparations in conflict-affected areas
Tara Van Ho, co-director, Essex Business & Human Rights Project, explains what businesses should be doing now to prepare for post-conflict Ukraine.
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Series From an attack on the rules-based international order to a new geopolitical corporate responsibility?
Bennett Freeman, Steering Committee member of B4Ukraine, explores the opportunity Russia's military aggression in Ukraine provides to improve business understanding of corporate responsibility.
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Series International business in Russia risks slipping from compliance to complicity
New Russian laws draw businesses further into the orbit of war support, writes Nataliya Popovych, B4Ukraine
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Post A legacy for Qatar 2022: Football can no longer stand on the human rights sidelines
Long after the final whistle has blown, football associations should still be players in the field when it comes to addressing the human rights harms faced by the workers upon whose backs world sporting events are built.
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