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  New buzzword, same problem: How 'worker voice' initiatives are perpetuating the shortcomings of traditional social auditing

  12 Mar 2019 Penelope Kyritsis, Prof. Dr. Genevieve LeBaron, Prof. Dr. Mark Anner

  Ultimately, any initiative purporting to empower workers through worker voice is only as effective as its ability and willingness to disrupt power relations within global supply chains.

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  Social audit reform options: towards auditor liability and multi-stakeholder oversight

  12 Mar 2019 Kebene Wodajo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  Can the existing regime be improved so that it delivers real protections against the exploitation of workers?

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• Enabling voices, demanding rights: How to ensure responsible investment in land for women

  11 Mar 2019 Francine Picard Mukazi, IISD, Francine Picard Mukazi, IISD, 11/03/19 - Francine Picard Mukazi, IISD

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• The CSR challenge for Chinese ELCs in Cambodia

  11 Mar 2019 11/03/19 - Rhoda Guetta, People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Rhoda Guetta, People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS), Rhoda Guetta, People's Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)

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• Good modern slavery policy, more than the sum of its parts

  11 Mar 2019 11/03/19 - Heather Moore is Managing Director, Trafficking and Slavery Research Group, School of Social Sciences, Monash University.

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• ‘It is like hell’: Garment workers for Japanese brands say factory conditions violate their rights

  8 Mar 2019 8/3/19 - Saul Takahashi, former Japan researcher at BHRRC

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• Dhaka fire shows that Bangladesh must build better safety systems, rather than scrap the Accord

  6 Mar 2019 6/3/19 - Christie Miedema, Clean Clothes Campaign, on behalf of all Accord witness signatories

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  Addressing inequalities of power: Landmark class action seeks justice for 15,500 Indonesian seaweed farmers affected by 2009 Montara oil spill

  5 Mar 2019 Ben Slade, Legal Counsel at Maurice Blackburn (Australia)

  The Corporate Legal Accountability team interviews Ben Slade, Legal Counsel at Maurice Blackburn (Australia): "It is always important that companies that cause mass injury be called to account, and class actions are one way of doing that works really well. Independently funded class actions add some balance to the playing field [...]"

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• What does the US Supreme Court's decision on IFC impunity mean for Indian fisherfolk?

  5 Mar 2019 5/3/19 - Kirk Herbertson, Advocacy Strategist at EarthRights International

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• Who is an 'employee' in the gig economy - and can the courts help protect labour rights?

  5 Mar 2019 5/3/19 - Maysa Zorob, Corporate Legal Accountability Programme Manager, BHRRC

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