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Series Call for EU Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation: What Can Be Learnt from France and the Netherlands?
Following a series of events ‘Human Rights Due Diligence in Law and Practice’ organised in Oxford in early 2020, Dr Ekaterina Aristova reflects on the lessons learnt from the French and Dutch experience of embedding corporate respect for human rights into legal frameworks.
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Post Garment workers are facing a humanitarian crisis – but don’t only blame COVID-19
The fashion industry has long been built on an exploitative business model that puts profits before human lives, writes BHRRC's Alysha Khambay for Open Democracy
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Post In Eastern Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to attack human rights defenders
Ella Skybenko explains why during the pandemic the role of civil society is more important than ever
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Series Ensuring human rights due diligence legislation works for small farmers and workers
Sergi Corbalán from the Fair Trade Advocacy Office discusses new research on how due diligence frameworks can address purchasing practices, living wages and incomes for small farmers and workers.
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Post Threat of Annexation should Spur Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence Across Occupied Territories
Situations of occupation, like other conflict-affected areas, present complex environments where businesses are at risk of causing, contributing, or being linked to gross human rights impacts and violations of international humanitarian law.
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Series Was the Brumadinho dam failure caused by a "normalisation of deviance"?
ECCHR's Claudia Müller-Hoff discusses the findings of the Vale-appointed Extraordinary Independent Consulting Committee for Investigation with regard to TÜV SÜD's role.
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Post Can Tunisia Shake Off “Business as Usual” Following Covid-19?
The government should place the COVID-19 response within a broader effort to address the persistent and systemic challenges the country faces from corruption to rent-seeking to vulnerable workers’ conditions, writes Salma Houerbi
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