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• Universal Declaration of Human Rights changed the world - Phil Bloomer on BBC Newshour

  10 Dec 2018 Adam Barnett, Communications Officer, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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• Human rights defenders and civic freedoms essential for profitable business, say major companies

  7 Dec 2018 Ana Zbona, Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders Project Manager, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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• Can consumers and market actors ‘regulate’ corporate reporting on Modern Slavery risk?

  6 Dec 2018 Dr. Jolyon Ford, Associate Professor of Law at the Australian National University

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• Voices from the Ground session at the UN Forum: Sobering reality check on business & human rights

  3 Dec 2018 Laura Collier, ECLT Foundation

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• The Australian Modern Slavery Act 2018 – will it live up to expectations?

  29 Nov 2018 Amy Sinclair, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and Justine Nolan, Associate Professor & Associate Dean (Academic) Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney

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  A Toothless Tool? First impressions on the Draft Optional Protocol to the Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights

  13 Nov 2018 Gabriela Kletzel & Andrés López Cabello, Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS) & Daniel Cerqueira, Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF) - members of ESCR-Net

  Most of the Optional Protocol text regulates the establishment and functions of the National Implementation Mechanism. However, this mechanism does not provide an effective venue for monitoring and redressing corporate abuses.

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• Brazil activists in London seeking justice over Doce River disaster

  7 Nov 2018 7/11/18 - Adam Barnett, Communications Officer, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

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  RWE lawsuit: First test case in Europe to clarify responsibilities of carbon majors for climate change

  5 Nov 2018 Dr. Roda Verheyen, counsel in Lliuya v. RWE AG, Roxana Baldrich, Policy Advisor and Christoph Bals, Policy Director, Germanwatch, April 2018

  The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Dr. Roda Verheyen, counsel in Lliuya v. RWE AG and Roxana Baldrich & Christoph Bals, Germanwatch: "The Huaraz case represents the first lawsuit in Europe where a person affected by the hazards of climate change has sued a private company, which is the biggest emitter of Europe."

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  Observations on the Zero Draft - A Detailed Proposal for a System of Arbitration

  29 Oct 2018 Klentiana Mahmutaj, Barrister at Red Lion Chambers

  I propose that the “competent court”...should include an international arbitral tribunal to increase the Convention’s efficacy and efficiency and to properly capture its transnational character.

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• France's law on the corporate duty of vigilance: process, pedagogy and pragmatism as the way forward

  29 Oct 2018 Elsa Savourey, firm-wide coordinator of the Global Business and Human Rights Practice, Herbert Smith Freehills; member of the Paris Bar

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