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Cutting-edge new city or harmful vanity project? Questions companies investing in Neom should ask...
After the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, companies around the world rolled back their involvement in Neom, the megacity project being built on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast. However, since then, many have come on board as scrutiny surrounding the country's human rights abuses is put on the back burner. But Saudi Arabia’s past dismal record is not the only reason why companies should reconsider partnerships with the Kingdom - the Neom project itself is beset with serious and ongoing human rights concerns.
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How import bans can help tackle forced labour in global supply chains
Forced labour import bans are emerging as key tools for policy makers seeking to push companies into dealing with the human rights risks in their supply chains.
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Respecting human rights: Why the CSDDD needs to go beyond social auditing
A Directive that is conceived as yet another auditing standard passed onto suppliers will miss out on much of its historic potential to transform and future-fit the way companies do business, and tangibly improve the lives of workers and communities along global value chains.
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What's new?: 'Targeted update' strengthens OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
The newly published update gives rightsholders and civil society new tools to hold corporations accountable and strengthen due diligence legislation, write OECD Watch and SOMO.
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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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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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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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Carlos Penteado, Christian Aid
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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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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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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