Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
6 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, which is respecting …
S. Korea: Court imposes 10-year sentence to perpetrator of …
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Saudi Arabia: ITV finds migrants constructing 'The Line' at …
4 days ago · An ITV documentary, “Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia”, has revealed severe labour rights violations for migrant workers constructing the megacity Neom.. Neom is part of the country’s ‘Vision 2030’ strategy as it tries to diversify its economy beyond oil. The documentary reports 21,000 migrant workers from India, Bangladesh and Nepal have died in …
Philippines: 9 trade unionists & HRDs killed and 4 arrested in …
On March 7, 2021, nine human rights defenders were killed while four were arrested. During the so-called "Bloody Sunday", the police and military served a total of 24 search warrants in the Calabarzon region, leading to 9 deaths and 7 arrests, in one of the deadliest days for activists in recent history for the Philippines.
UN Guiding Principles - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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Annual reports - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
5 days ago · Annual Impact Report 2023/24. This year the Resource Centre’s Global Team, in over 30 locations worldwide, has worked to deliver solidarity for those facing repression, insights and propositions for those developing policy, and evidence for those seeking accountability – from repressive supply chains in Myanmar; to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, to the dispossession …
Poland: Recruitment agencies using exploitative practices target ...
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Kuwait: Manpower authority announce "easier movement" for …
6 days ago · "COVID-19: Kuwait approves transfer of work permits after one yar instead of three," 6 May 2021. The Director General of the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM), Ahmed Al Mousa, issued a decision to allow workers to transfer their work …
German mandatory human rights due diligence law enters into force
Dec 25, 2024 · Germany: Future govt. expresses support for EU mandatory due diligence in coalition agreement Date: 24 Nov 2021 Content Type: Article. While the discussions on sustainable corporate governance and supply chain due diligence continue at EU level and a proposal for a directive has been postponed several times, Germany is sending a strong signal.
Mexico: Pemex has a contract with the energy company Vitol, …
4 days ago · "Vitol still has contracts with Pemex; its former CEO in Mexico is an associate of a deceased financial operator of Los Zetas", 23 June 2022. The multinational energy company Vitol maintained a contract with Pemex at least until February 2022, despite President López Obrador’s threat to review its business operations in Mexico, after the company accepted that, for years, …