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When you protect workers, you protect everybody: Labour and COVID-19
A lack of labour rights, particularly workplace health and safety standards, makes entire populations vulnerable to disaster.
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Biden-Harris need ‘all hands on deck’ approach to promote respect for human rights
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR) and the Investor Alliance for Human Rights (IAHR) spell human rights and business concerns Biden-Harris need to prioritize.
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Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence in the EU: The Promise and the Risk
Olivier de Schutter and Sharan Burrow highlight the important role EU legislation will play in strengthening the bargaining power of unions and social movements in the global South.
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What a Biden-Harris Administration Could Mean for Human Rights in Business
Eric Biel, Jason Pielemeier and Marti Flacks have compile an ambitious but achievable set of goals for a Biden-Harris Administration as it undertakes its agenda to “build back better”.
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A vision for the next decade of business and human rights
Anita Ramasastry, Chair, and Dante Pesce, Vice-Chair of the UN Working Group, explain the UNGPs10+ project and what’s on the agenda for the next decade of business and human rights.
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Perspectives on EU Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation: A Resource Centre Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed our vulnerable global economic system, with workers feeling the brunt of the ensuring crisis. Can growing momentum towards mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) give hope for a more equitable future?
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UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights at 10 – A vision for the future
The UNGPs+10 agenda must be used to create a New Social Contract and Green New Deals to deliver greater shared prosperity and security in the next decade, write Phil Bloomer and Mauricio Lazala.
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The Catalan Center for Business & Human Rights: An Opportunity for Catalonia
The creation of a Catalan Centre for Business and Human Rights presents an opportunity to exert change and demonstrate leadership, writes Jordi Vives Gabriel
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Pesticide Poisonings in Yavatmal: Those affected take on agribusiness giant Syngenta
Christian Schliemann from ECCHR explains how companies headquartered in Europe are able to export pesticides prohibited in their countries of origin to developing countries. Drawing on a lawsuit and an OECD complaint filed by Indian farmers against Swiss giant Syngenta, Schliemann argues that voluntary commitments prove ineffective and that the way forward for victims can only lie in mandatory human rights due diligence.
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