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Post Anti-SLAPP legislation must outlaw judicial harassment of Human Rights Defenders
Anti-SLAPP legal frameworks are a key tool to protect HRDs from judicial harassment. Without such frameworks, lawyers have limited tools at their disposal to fight SLAPPs in the courts.
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Post A history of negligence: How Gap and other major brands failed to draw lessons from the That’s It Sportswear factory fire
On the 11th anniversary of the That's It Sportswear factory fire which claimed the lives of 29 garment workers, Sarah Newell and Christie Miedama reflect on the importance of worker-driven and enforceable safety agreements
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Post Development finance institutions and human rights: The urgent need to connect the dots
Development finance institutions should take a critical look at the coherence of their sustainable development and human rights strategies, write Ioana Tuta and Signe Andreasen, Danish Institute for Human Rights
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Series Momentum for change: UK public joins business and civil society to demand new Business, Human Rights and Environment law
The call for the UK Government to table a new UK law to root out corporate supply chain abuses - wherever they take place – is rapidly building. Georgina Berriman and Mark Dearn from the Corporate Justice Coalition survey the case for change.
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Post Five take-aways from the 2021 Binding Treaty negotiations
Dominic Renfrey from the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Treaty Alliance reflects on the negotiations on the third revised draft of the Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights
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Post Putting Eastern Europe and Central Asia on the business and human rights agenda
In these countries, the narrative has been “development now, everything else later” – with that “everything else” encompassing the environment, sustainability and human rights.
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Series Trade, climate and human rights – at odds or reconcilable?
Cornelia Maarfield from Climate Action Network Europe explores how unsustainable patterns of trade have driven deforestation and environmental destruction, and proposes new trade rules.
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Series A New Trade Vision for a Green New Deal
As world leaders meet at the UN climate negotiations in Glasgow civil society groups are launching a new resource to outline the threats that trade and investment treaties pose to climate action.
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