Corporate transparency: latest on the European proposals
Over the last few weeks, much of CORE’s advocacy work has focused on influencing the EU non-financial reporting reforms. All of the amendments that the European Coalition for Corporate Justice put forward to strengthen the proposal have been tabled by at least one political group, and some have the support of multiple groups. So even...
How Does Fairtrade Mitigate Human Rights Violations in Global Supply Chains?
Fairtrade International's publication draws on three case studies and reflects on Fairtrade’s alignment with the human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) approach.
October 11th, 2013
| by Fairtrade Foundation
farmershuman rights and environmental due diligenceHuman rights due diligence
CORE’s freedom of information requests on Shell court case: FCO & BIS scrape the bottom of the barrel for excuses
In February 2012, the UK government made an intervention in Kiobel -v- Shell, a US court case brought against Shell by a group of people from the Niger Delta. The case became notorious when Shell argued that corporations couldn’t be sued for violating international law. The UK government joined with the Dutch government to submit...