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Series The corporate accountability paradox
Corporate accountability commitments have proliferated in the apparel industry since the 1990s. Yet these corporate promises have created a paradox: the more assurances workers get, the more vulnerable they become.
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Series How mandatory human rights due diligence could safeguard women homeworkers working within global supply chains
Lucy Brill and Shanta Bhavnani of Homeworkers Worldwide looks at how HRDD legislation can be designed that is sensitive to the situation of homeworkers in supply chains.
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Series Reform or Bust – No WTO without workers’ rights for fair competition
Sharan Burrow and Phil Bloomer call for reform of the World Trade Organisation so that trade rules better support human rights and labour rights
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Series Human rights due diligence legislation: New hope for victims of land grabs in Cambodia?
Mandatory due diligence laws may offer opportunity for redress for communities affected by longstanding patterns of abuse in their supply chains, write Inclusive Development International's Coleen Scott and Sarah Singh
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Post Copa America or Covid America?
Marina Novaes explores the responsibility of company sponsors for Copa America, taking place in a region severely affected by the pandemic
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Series 16 June 2021: UN Guiding Principles at 10
The UNWG calls on states and businesses to use the anniversary moment to recommit and set clear implementation goals for the coming years, to increase the pace of implementation on the scale needed to deliver impact toward 2030 and beyond.
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Series The Quiet Radicalism of the Responsibility to Respect
Francis West from Shift on the striking progress and untapped potential of the UNGPs ten years later
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Post Fighting back against the use of litigation to quash dissent
Powerful entities are abusing the legal system to silence human rights defenders and communities who speak out against corporate abuse to protect our rights and shared environment.
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Series Towards a social economy: The next generation of the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
The UNGPs should ensure globalisation becomes a positive force for change, writes Olivier De Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
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