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Lawyers’ insights on corporate legal accountability: Richard Rogers, Climate Counsel, UK
"The greatest challenge is identifying a legal forum that is willing to accept jurisdiction, but is also independent, impartial, and accessible (especially in terms of costs)."
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One goal, multiple narratives and the chance to harness their collective power to Build Back Better
Shift's Caroline Rees emphasises the need for collaboration and greater connection across different constituencies and narratives, to ensure our efforts to build back better avoid collision, dilution or even delay.
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It's time for the EU to clean up corporate supply chains
"While we cannot undo the collapse of Rana Plaza, pollution in the Niger delta or the deaths of migrant workers in Qatar, the COVID-19 crisis has offered us a chance to rethink and redesign global value chains" – Members of European Parliament Lara Wolters, Manon Aubry, Pascal Durand and Heidi Hautala after the plenary vote on the corporate due diligence and accountability report
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Just Recovery within the Mindanaw Human Rights Agenda
BALAOD Mindanaw's Ritz Lee, outlines what needs to happen for a just recovery in Mindanaw - accountability, redress and reorientation towards the protection and promotion of human rights.
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Strengthening new investor just transition tool would be a gamechanger
Climate Action 100+ Just Transition Indicator can only be a useful tool for responsible investors seeking more socially responsible green investments if it widens its remit to include human rights indicators
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Accountability for agricultural, commercial & financial drivers of illegal deforestation & an opportunity to avoid risks: a case study from Brazil
The Center for Climate Crime Analysis on the increasing number of organizations fighting the climate emergency using legal and advocacy tools to target agricultural, commercial and financial drivers of tropical deforestation.
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Just recovery interventions can and should eliminate child labour
COVID-19 has been a catalyst for child labour. Global March Against Child Labour highlights interventions that could eliminate this scourge and how the private sector could utilise these in efforts towards a just recovery.
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Responsibility from the top down: Why human rights due diligence must be a mandated concern of corporate boards
The European Commission should act to make the issue of board oversight an explicit part of its mHRDD approach, write John Morrison, Phil Bloomer and Camille Le Pors
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#KeepItOn: Internet shutdowns only cause harm
Felicia Anthonio, Campaigner & #KeepItOn Lead at Access Now, gives an overview of internet shutdowns across Africa, their impact on digital freedom and what steps need to be taken to push back.
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