Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
WEB3 days ago · As set out in the UN Guiding Principles, human rights due diligence is a process for identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for human rights impacts.This includes both actual impacts occurring in the present and potential impacts that could occur in the future. Human rights due diligence is not an end in itself, but a means to an end, …
Corporate Criminal Liability – Key Resources
WEB4 days ago · Under certain circumstances, a corporation can be held criminally liable for the illegal acts of its directors, employees or other individuals acting on its behalf. Efforts to hold corporations accountable under criminal law for illegal acts that result in human rights harm (corporate criminal liability) have gained traction since the United ...
Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem)
WEB6 days ago · To obey China's censorship laws, Google's representatives explained, the company had agreed to purge its search results of any Web sites disapproved of by the Chinese government, including Web sites promoting Falun Gong...; sites promoting free speech in China; or any mention of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre...
Walt Disney Company publishes list of 5500 factories making …
WEB6 days ago · "Facility list" The Walt Disney Company is committed to fostering safe, inclusive and respectful workplaces wherever Disney-branded products are manufactured...To that end, we have published this list of the roughly 5,500 facilities in almost 70 countries that manufacture Disney-branded products sold, distributed or used …
Zimbabwe: US labour report says children suffering worst forms of …
WEB2 days ago · ‘US assails Zimbabwe for slow progress ‘to end the worst forms of child labour’ 6 October 2022. Zimbabwe is not doing enough to end the worst forms of child labour, the United States Department of Labour says in a new report.
Labour Rights Defenders - Business & Human Rights Resource …
WEB3 days ago · Labour Rights Defenders. Labour rights activism makes societies fairer by addressing the imbalance of power between corporations and workers and improving working conditions. It is also at the heart of the broader struggle for human rights and social justice. Several examples of human rights movements that have been led and supported …
Union Carbide/Dow lawsuit (re Bhopal, filed in India)
WEB4 days ago · Snapshot: In 1999, a group of victims of the Bhopal disaster, a forty ton poisonous gas spill in India, filed suit against Union Carbide in US federal court seeking compensation for the incident and for the alleged ongoing environmental contamination.The US Court rejected the case on a juridictional basis. In India, the court found Union …
Zimbabwe: A yet-to-be-released documentary exposes corruption …
WEB6 days ago · ‘Explosive Al Jazeera documentary on Zimbabwe's illicit gold trade causing headaches for government’ 6 March 2023. A hyped but yet-to-be-screened Al Jazeera investigation into the illicit gold trade and corruption linking powerful elites and politicians in Zimbabwe has sparked a public relations disaster in government and ruling party circles.
Equileap publishes 2019 ranking of companies on gender equality …
WEBSep 12, 2024 · Equileap researched 3,519 companies in 23 developed economies, representing 98 million employees, and ranked them based on 19 gender equality criteria...
Local community raises concerns around wind energy project in …
WEB3 days ago · The Goldstandard registered Çeşme Wind Power Project, located on a peninsular close to Izmir in Turkey, was initiated by the Turkish energy company Vega Wind Energy Electricity Generation Inc. (formerly ABK Energy) and supplied with wind turbines by German company Nordex SE.