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These 5 firms have indicated their interest to connect renewable energy plants in occupied #WesternSahara to #Morocco 's economic and business center #Casablanca, thus making the occupying regime more dependent on its illegal presence in the territory.

#bizhumanrights #BHR #humanrights

https://wsrw.org/en/news/these-firms-want-to-supply-morocco-with-energy-from-occupied-land

RT by @WorkersEESC: It's time to align business practice with the respect of #HumanRights.

Crucial vote this week at the Council. All Member States must see through the commitment to put Europe in the lead on #bizhumanrights.

#CSDDD

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/etuc_ces/status/1754454569403245022#m

[2024-02-05 10:39 UTC]

Bürokratiemonster oder Wettbewerbsvorteil? Laut Handelsblatt dreht sich die Stimmung in der Wirtschaft: eine „große Mehrheit“ der Unternehmen sei für das Lieferkettengesetz #LkSG.
https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/mittelstand/lieferkette-grosse-mehrheit-fuer-lieferkettengesetz/100002172.html 🔒 #BizHumanRights

Im Auftrag des BMZ haben wir gemeinsam mit der @GIZ einen interaktiven englischsprachigen Onlinekurs erstellt, in dem Sie Ihr Wissen über Wirtschaft und Menschenrechte testen und erweitern können.

#BizHumanRights

Testen Sie sich selbst:
https://www.humanrights4dev.org/

Protecting Human Rights Defenders Globally: Does Canada Mean business? ‘Canada’s record of business abuses of human rights increasingly attracts international criticism.’ | Catherine Morris, for Slaw - Canada's online legal magazine
https://www.slaw.ca/2023/11/02/protecting-human-rights-defenders-globally-does-canada-mean-business/ #BizHumanRights #Canada #IndigenousPeoples #HumanRightsDefenders

The ball is in the EU's court - Opinion on the updated draft for a binding human rights instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises

#BizHumanRights

https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/fileadmin/Redaktion/Publikationen/Stellungnahmen/Stellungnahme_4._Entwurf_UN_Abkommen_ENG.pdf

‘Following the onset of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, some businesses publicly condemned the war and extended support to Ukraine. While these gestures were certainly welcome, the fact remains that, 500 days into the war and nine years after the illegal annexation of Crimea, numerous major players continue their operations in the aggressor state.’ https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/blog/from-compliance-to-conscience-businesses-and-human-rights-in-russia/

#Ukraine #UkraineRussia #BizHumanRights

Positive Beziehungen zwischen Lieferant:innen & Käufer:innen schaffen? Das Toolkit für menschenwürdige Arbeit bietet Einblicke zur Verbesserung von Arbeitsbedingungen für Arbeiter:innen in der Lieferkette.
👉 Mehr dazu: https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/sustainableprocurement#
#ilo #UNICEF #globalcompact #bizhumanrights

Positive Beziehungen zwischen Lieferant:innen & Käufer:innen schaffen? Das Toolkit für menschenwürdige Arbeit bietet Einblicke zur Verbesserung von Arbeitsbedingungen für Arbeiter:innen in der Lieferkette.
👉 Mehr dazu: https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/sustainableprocurement#
#ilo #UNICEF #globalcompact #bizhumanrights

Positive Beziehungen zwischen Lieferant:innen & Käufer:innen schaffen? Das Toolkit für menschenwürdige Arbeit bietet Einblicke zur Verbesserung von Arbeitsbedingungen für Arbeiter:innen in der Lieferkette.
👉 Mehr dazu: https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/sustainableprocurement#
#ilo #UNICEF #globalcompact #bizhumanrights

Positive Beziehungen zwischen Lieferant:innen & Käufer:innen schaffen? Das Toolkit für menschenwürdige Arbeit bietet Einblicke zur Verbesserung von Arbeitsbedingungen für Arbeiter:innen in der Lieferkette.
👉 Mehr dazu: https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/sustainableprocurement#
#ilo #UNICEF #globalcompact #bizhumanrights

Positive Beziehungen zwischen Lieferant:innen & Käufer:innen schaffen? Das Toolkit für menschenwürdige Arbeit bietet Einblicke zur Verbesserung von Arbeitsbedingungen für Arbeiter:innen in der Lieferkette.
👉 Mehr dazu: https://unglobalcompact.org/take-action/sustainableprocurement#
#ilo #UNICEF #globalcompact #bizhumanrights

New Canadian law, includes e.g. transparency on "measures taken to remediate the loss of income (...) that results from any measure taken to eliminate the use of forced labour or child labour in its activities and supply chains" https://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-passes-law-aimed-at-exposing-forced-labor-in-supply-chains-e13c289
#bizhumanrights #bhr #supplychain

OUT NOW: Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly
Update on #BizHumanRights legal developments & communities' challenges accessing justice re #Cerrejón #Coal in #Colombia #Glencore #BHP #AngloAmerican #mining
👉 https://bit.ly/3zjFjGw

@BHRRC @cla_bhrrc

Important and disturbing expose on domestic workers being systematically advertised for sale or rent on a popular app in Saudi Arabia, haraj, which has remained available via Google and Apple despite being criticised in 2020 by UN special rapporteurs for facilitating modern slavery https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/maids-trafficked-and-sold-to-wealthy-saudis-on-black-market-dkl80kzgd

#domesticWork #DomesticWorkers #Trafficking #BizHumanRights

💥BREAKING @jamesinparis La Cour d'appel de Paris confirme la mise en examen de #Amesys + deux de ses dirigeants !
Cette décision historique constitue un pas de plus vers la reconnaissance de la responsabilité de l'entreprise pour complicité de torture🧵
#BizHumanRights
https://www.fidh.org/fr/nos-impacts/surveillance-torture-libye-cour-appel-paris-mise-en-examen-amesys

'Just because it is digital, it doesn't mean the battle for our rights has changed' - women working on domestic work platforms across Africa run risks including underpay once costs of travel and data are deducted, assault, and pressure not to speak out https://bdnews24.com/the-long-read/65srfz2o8y

#GigEconomy #PlatformWork #DomesticWorkers #BizHumanRights #Africa

In the U.S., as we continue to see precarity, lack of PPE, layoffs, no paid sick leave, loss of employer-paid healthcare, business and human rights matters more than ever: http://www.curpheylaw.com/covid-19-american-late-capitalism-confronts-business-and-human-rights/ #bizhumanrights #COVID19 #workersfirst #coronavirususa

More than 70 women on Kenyan tea farms owned by two British companies have told the BBC they had been sexually abused by their supervisors. Secret filming showed local bosses pressuring an undercover reporter for sex; when she made a complaint she was told to ‘stand by her principles’ but no action was taken against the perpetrator https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64662056

#SexualViolence #SexualHarassment #WorkersRights #WomensRights #AgriculturalWorkers #BizHumanRights

Finally getting round to an #introduction toot....

I'm an Assistant Prof. of Public International Law at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.

Working on the #humanrights responsibilities of businesses that develop and/or deploy #artificialintelligence.

Proud mummy of my son and slightly obsessed with my pets 🐕 🐱

#bizhumanrights #corporateresponsibility #corporateaccountability #digitalrights #lawandtech #AI

Thai police have been accused of conducting a “sham” investigation into potential forced labour at a garment factory formerly used by Tesco, after officials took one day to conclude no laws were broken. This followed reports that garment workers were being made to work 99-hour weeks for illegally low pay in terrible conditions https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/05/thai-police-accused-sham-probe-alleged-forced-labour-former-tesco-supplier

#ForcedLabour #GarmentIndustry #HumanRights #BizHumanRights

Pleased to share that the article @[email protected] and I wrote on the advantages of worker-driven social responsibility has been published by @[email protected], and you can access the full text here: https://bit.ly/WSRarticleBHRJ #bizhumanrights @[email protected] #MilkWithDignity

Hello dear new mastodon-bubble! As I’ve seen similar quests for other locations I thought I’d give this a try: are there any fellow critical minds with an interest in BHR and LPE in #Berlin who are interested in connecting? Feel free to drop me a line! #BizHR #BizHumanRghts #bizhumanrights

New❗️: National Baseline Assessment now available in English! How far has Germany come in implementing its #NAP on Business & Human Rights, which further steps & new challenges should be considered? 👉 To the English version: https://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/publikationen/detail/national-baseline-assessment-1 #bizhumanrights #UNGPs

Registration now open: The 11th @UNHumanRights Forum on Business and #HumanRights will take place on 28. - 30.11.22. This year's dialogue is dedicated to accelerating the implementation of the #UNGPs from the rights holders' perspective.
👉 Register here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/events/forums/2022/11th-un-forum-business-and-human-rights
#UNForumBHR #bizhumanrights