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update Weekly Update 26 October | Binding treaty: Activists demand progress and Geneva negotiations
Pay Your Workers calls on adidas to sign binding agreement to ensure respect for workers' rights & remediation for wage theft; Call for release of 9 students in Uganda arrested for supporting EU resolution on halting EACOP project over human rights & environmental concerns; Significant overlap between active oil fields, Indigenous land & protected areas in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador & Peru, finds study; Al-Messila, French team hotel for World Cup, terminates contract with security provider as guards allege poor living & working conditions; and much more...
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update Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update – Issue 42, October 2022: Proposed binding treaty on business and human rights: Taking stock 8 years into negotiations
Eight years into the treaty negotiating process, which began in 2014, it seems like a good time to reflect on the proposed legally binding treaty negotiations with new perspectives on the treaty and the negotiation process, from academics, government, and civil society.
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update Weekly Update 19 October | Lafarge fined USD777.8m after pleading guilty to financially supporting ISIS
Oilfield service firm Schlumberger allegedly refusing to authorise remote working as Russian employees receive military draft notices; BHP under pressure from UK investors to accelerate reparation of Mariana dam collapse; Dominican Republican sugar exporter Central Romana’s ‘paramilitary’ security allegedly abuse & intimidate workers living on plantations; CSO alleges Apple hosts apps which fund Myanmar military junta; Sartex garment factory workers in Armenia strike; Members of Indigenous Al-Howeiti tribe receive death sentences in Saudi Arabia after opposing Neom mega-project land evictions; and much more
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update Weekly Update 12 October | Brazil: Investigation alleges JBS poultry linked to Amazon deforestation
TikTok allegedly profiting from livestreams of displaced families in Syrian camps; Mossville, USA, residents seek remedy from Sasol for chemical complex expansion & associated harms; PT PLN Persero’s 100-megawatt coal power plant in Indonesia will produce carcinogenic fumes & lacks impact assessment, activists allege; UK court rules harmful posts on Instagram & Pinterest contributed to suicide of 14-year-old girl; OHCHR calls on Egyptian Govt. to ensure safe & full participation of civil society ahead of COP27 after alleged crackdowns, arrests & detentions; and much more...
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update Weekly Update 05 October | Myanmar: Widespread labour rights violations allegedly affect 24,000 workers
200 human & environmental rights defenders killed in 2021, finds Global Witness report; Amazonian Indigenous org. calls on Ocho Sur's intl. buyers to demonstrate their supply chain sources are not implicated in human rights abuses; 99.8 percent of women workers in agriculture in Cambodia have informal status resulting in lack of access to labour law benefits & protections; and much more...
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update Weekly Update 28 September | Qatar World Cup 2022: Sponsors failing to back remedy for abused workers; adidas announces support
New Russian law obliges int. companies operating in Russia to assist Govt. with war mobilisation; TotalEnergies to answer charges of environmental & human rights abuse related to EACOP before European Parliament committee; Indigenous peoples & Ecuadorian Govt. agree moratorium on new oil & mining for at least 12 months or until law guaranteeing consultation is passed; Community in Kyrgyzstan alleges livelihoods threatened by road-building ahead of planned Oriel Gold mine & processing plant
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update Weekly Update 21 September | Myanmar: 'Serious deterioration' leads to Primark decision to responsibly exit
Trevali managers found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Burkina Faso after flash flood killed 8 miners; 2 petrochemical projects in Louisiana's 'cancer alley’ blocked in win for environmental justice activists; 3 months after USA's Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act came into effect, we survey 56 companies on their actions; H&M and Decathlon ordered to remove sustainability labels from products & make donations following Dutch investigation into 'misleading' claims; Land rights defenders in Saudi Arabia jailed for 50 years after protesting displacement for Neom megaproject; & much more.
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update Weekly Update 14 September | Ali Enterprises fire anniversary: New calls for Intl. Accord expansion
Ugandan Govt. orders communities to vacate wetlands over pollution concerns but factories allowed to remain as they may have been 'misled' over protection status; Mexican tribunal rules Renovalia Energy built wind farm on Unión Hidalgo communal land, not private property; Construction firms in Qatar incl. those working on World Cup projects allegedly terminate workers without proper notice while wages & benefits remain outstanding; and much more
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update Weekly Update 7 September | S. Africa: Shell oil exploration rights revoked in win for communities
High court ruled Shell failed to adequately consult with affected communities about the proposed project; Oxycer Mining files 5 applications with regulator to prospect for gold in Piripkura Indigenous Territory in anticipation of mining ban lift in Brazil; UN report finds it ‘reasonable to conclude’ forced labour & other serious human rights violations present in Xinjiang; Over 100 civil society & trade union organisations launch campaign calling on EU to issue a strong due diligence law; and much more
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