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Post Colombia: The role of business during social protests - challenges & opportunities
Business has a responsibility during times of social upheaval, as the current situation in Colombia highlights. Most obviously they must ensure their practices, policies or products are not being used to legitimise or carry out abuses against those peacefully demanding their rights, writes Mary Lawlor, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders.
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Series Right to self-determination and land rights must be central in struggle for a Just Recovery
As COVID-19 wreaks devastation across the globe, States are justifying destructive development projects in the name of bolstering their battered economies, write Binota Moy Dhamai, AIPP & Joie Chowdhury, ESCR-Net. Land-related violations in the name of development are a widespread and longstanding practice affecting a wide range of human rights. But if we are serious about delivering a just and equitable transition and recovery, Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination must be enforced, alongside strengthened land-related rights and participation rights of land-dependent communities.
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Series Advancing business respect for human rights in conflict-affected areas through the UNGPs
Heeding the UNGPs’ call for enhanced human rights due diligence in conflict-affected areas, Heartland Initiative has developed the Rights Respecting Investment in CAHRA methodology.
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Series The UN Guiding Principles at 10: Scaling up investor action on human rights
Widespread implementation of the UNGPs will continue to be stymied unless investor respect for human rights is sped and scaled up, writes Anita Ramasastry on the UNGPs 10+ report "Taking stock of investor implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights".
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Series The UN Guiding Principles at 10: An investor perspective
Danielle Essink from Robeco on how investors can move forward to ensure that the next decade will be focused on global implementation of the Guiding Principles and create better outcomes for people.
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Post The Shell climate verdict: a major win for mandatory due diligence and corporate accountability
The global movement to hold corporations accountable for their impact on the climate is having a moment. The verdict handed down last week in the climate case filed by Milieudefensie in 2019 against Royal Dutch Shell has rightly been called historic: Shell must reduce its CO2 emissions by net 45% by 2030. And the ruling is historic for other reasons as well, as David Ollivier de Leth, Joseph Wilde-Ramsing and Manon Wolfkamp of SOMO reflect.
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Series What if mandatory human rights due diligence had existed before Rana Plaza?
As labour organisations call on brands to support the continuation of the Bangladesh Accord, Clean Clothes Campaign's Neva Nahtigal imagines how meaningful mandatory due diligence could have changed the course of the Rana Plaza disaster
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Post New company profiles illuminate human rights issues across the technology sector
To help reveal how such technologies and their producers operate, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has developed dashboards for 40 companies across the technology sector. These provide ready access to a suite of information about company policy and practice in relation to human rights.
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Series Lessons of COVID-19 Vaccines for Progressive Utopians
Professor Michael A. Santoro explores what the COVID-19 vaccine development and distribution process taught us about the two big goals of Progressive Utopians: Economic Progressivism & Global Government.
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