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In Eastern Europe, the COVID-19 pandemic is being used to attack human rights defenders
Ella Skybenko explains why during the pandemic the role of civil society is more important than ever
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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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Threat of Annexation should Spur Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence Across Occupied Territories
Situations of occupation, like other conflict-affected areas, present complex environments where businesses are at risk of causing, contributing, or being linked to gross human rights impacts and violations of international humanitarian law.
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Was the Brumadinho dam failure caused by a "normalisation of deviance"?
ECCHR's Claudia Müller-Hoff discusses the findings of the Vale-appointed Extraordinary Independent Consulting Committee for Investigation with regard to TÜV SÜD's role.
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Can Tunisia Shake Off “Business as Usual” Following Covid-19?
The government should place the COVID-19 response within a broader effort to address the persistent and systemic challenges the country faces from corruption to rent-seeking to vulnerable workers’ conditions, writes Salma Houerbi
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Organising is Essential for Homeworkers
It is not just homeworkers, but the brands and suppliers as well who stand to gain from recognising the labour rights of homeworkers
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Building the New Southeast Asian Macau: A Survey of Chinese and Cambodian Construction Workers in Sihanoukville
Research unearths widespread problems on Chinese construction sites in Otres, a village on the outskirts of Sihanoukville city
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Unpacking the relationship between homeworking and child workers
Many brands prohibit the use of homeworkers, often as a knee-jerk reaction to the controversial association of homework with child labour. However, there is important new evidence about the real benefits of homework to children's wellbeing
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Challenges of COVID-19 in Latin America, the most unequal region in the world
Latin America deserves a new opportunity to recover through a human rights-based approach that includes marginalised but key groups.
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