A new briefing and report from Anti-Slavery International, Cividep India and Repórter Brasil considers the potential impact of human rights due diligence laws in the EU on labour exploitation and forced labour. The European Commission will soon publish a proposal for an EU business and human rights law that would require companies operating in the...
Household names including Nestlé, PepsiCo, Wilmar and Unilever and associated global financial institutions and investors continue to ‘turn a blind eye’ to human rights abuses in their palm oil supply chains, finds a new report compiled by TuK INDONESIA, PUSAKA, Walhi, and Forest Peoples Programme. The report highlights systemic social and environmental problems that continue...
New human rights due diligence legislation and practices should result in positive human rights outcomes for all rightsholders. To assist policymakers and businesses in understanding key elements of effective due diligence on collective land rights, FPP has published a new guide – Stepping Up: Protecting collective land rights through corporate due diligence. The guide incorporates lessons learned from decades of experience...
This report examines the potential widespread environmental destruction and human rights abuses unleashed by the extraction of transition minerals – the raw materials needed for the production of renewable energy technologies.
A new Global Witness policy briefing sets out key proposals for a robust human rights and environmental due diligence obligation and corporate liability regime in EU law.
This briefing sets out the key components that should be included in due diligence legislation.
In the past years, several European countries, as well as the EU, have adopted or started to consider legislation that embeds elements of Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) into law.
Our partner ActionAid reports that corporate accountability can be harnessed to protect women’s rights and further gender equality - however, many governments and corporations still have to implement, strengthen and operationalise this in practice.
This report by the British Institute of International and Comparative Law considers whether and how the legal elements of section 7 of the Bribery Act could be transposed into a failure to prevent human rights harms.
