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Series Europe’s new law to end corporate abuse should learn from Obama's legacy
For those in Europe seeking evidence that robust due diligence laws work both to end abuse in business and promote prevention, there are powerful lessons to learn from the new assertiveness of the Forced Labour Division of the Customs and Border Patrol.
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Series European companies should stop putting profit over people and planet
BHRRC's Saskia Wilks and Johannes Blankenbach discuss a joint call for EU mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence by European companies and why this is needed right now.
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Series Exploring core elements of an EU regulation on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
Robert McCorquodale and Martijn Scheltema look at the potential scope, type of obligations, and enforcement model of upcoming EU due diligence legislation, taking a joint civil and common law perspective.
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Series Why rightsholder consultation is the gateway to effective human rights due diligence
The best and only way to understand corporate human rights risks is to understand the perspectives of rightsholders who experience them, argues Matthew Mullen.
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Series What US businesses need to know about the proposed EU law on corporate due diligence
Following the EU Justice Commissioner's announcement in April, Ben Rutledge looks at what a law could mean for US companies.
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Series Exploring Trends in Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
Current trends towards efficient and comprehensive human rights and environmental due diligence
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Series Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence in the UK: To Be or Not to Be?
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 prospects of adopting human rights due diligence (HRDD) legislation in the UK
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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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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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Series Something for Europeans to celebrate – a new social contract begins to emerge?
BHRRC's Phil Bloomer and ITUC's Sharan Burrow discuss the EU Commission's plans for mandatory due diligence in a piece for Open Democracy
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