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Series Evidence-Based Law-Making: What Lessons Have We Learnt for an Effective Due Diligence Law?
ECCJ, ECCHR and Initiative Lieferkettengesetz discuss key insights drawn from past efforts to advance responsible business conduct, including the pitfalls of social auditing as well as the need for judicial enforcement through civil liability.
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Series No action too small when it comes to a company’s respect for human rights
Anggara Suwahju, CEO of a SME in Indonesia knows the number one asset for any company are its people - and expresses concern the new "Omnibus Law" falls short of international labour law standards, therefore threatening the human rights of workers.
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Post Corporate Human Rights Litigation: Trends from 200 Seminal Lawsuits
For the past 12 years, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has tracked lawsuits brought against companies around the world to redress their negative human rights impacts. This December, we launched our Lawsuits Database, which includes the 200 cases we have profiled to date. Here’s a brief look into what our database tells us about litigation as a strategic tool for corporate legal accountability.
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Series Key Considerations for Effective Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation
Théo Jaekel highlights three key issues with mHRDD legislation from his perspective as Legal Counsel and Business and Human Rights Expert at Ericsson, a Swedish telecomms multinational.
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Series Time to act: How the Biden Administration and Congress could tackle corporate human rights abuse
EarthRights International's Keith Slack and ICAR's Alison Kiehl Friedman
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Series Indonesia: Collective Civil Disobedience is Needed against Omnibus Law on Job Creation
New Indonesian Omnibus Law on Job Creation substantially sacrifices human rights and environmental protections by limiting both public participation in the environmental decision-making process and access to information on decisions related to environmental feasibility.
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Series Introducing our “Just Recovery” blog series
The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)
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