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As pressure to extract transition minerals ramps up, meaningful engagement with mining-affected rights-holders must be a core feature of state and corporate commitments to a just energy transition - one that is built on fair negotiations and true access to information, respect for human and environmental rights and shared prosperity.
Shein, ultra-fast fashion and forced labour risks: Key issues for ...
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Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
4 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 human rights and ...
2025: A year of new challenges and opportunities for the movement
Dec 18, 2024 · Insisting human rights be at the heart of business is not for the faint-hearted. The last year has seen moments of advance and satisfaction, such as Europe’s approval of mandatory corporate due diligence for human rights and the environment (CSDDD), alongside moments of fear and peril, such as the US election results, the disappointment of COP29, and the rising number of attacks on human ...
China: Shein factory employees work 18 hours a day with no …
Oct 16, 2022 · Part of the following timelines China: Shein's sudden rise and the hidden costs borne by workers behind cheap fashion. Chinese fast fashion retailer Shein faces controversy over trip bringing American influencers to factory in China
USA: Consumer group files false advertising lawsuit against …
Jan 10, 2024 · Timeline Starbucks' response to false advertising lawsuit Date: 4 Mar 2024 Content Type: Company Response; USA: Consumer group files false advertising lawsuit against Starbucks over allegations that it sources "ethical" coffee and tea from farms involved in …
USA: Report alleges abuse of workers, including migrants, at …
Dec 10, 2024 · A new report by the University of Massachusetts Amherst in collaboration with Students for International Labor Solidarity, released in December 2024, alleges “serious and pervasive” labour rights abuses in the supply chain of REI, a US outdoor retailer.
Vietnam: Activists dismiss Formosa’s claims of adequate …
"Activists dismiss Formosa claim of fulfilled obligations regarding spill in Vietnam", 15 October 2024. Activists have rejected a claim by Taiwan’s Formosa Group that it has fulfilled all of its obligations related to a devastating chemical spill in 2016 at one of its plants in Vietnam, saying the company has failed to pay victims adequate compensation and prove that it …
Rush to renewables: Toward migrant worker rights and a just …
Nov 26, 2024 · Grounded in migrant workers’ experience, the report includes: A mapping of the renewable energy industry landscape across the six GCC countries, identifying the companies awarded work to develop, construct and maintain solar, wind and green hydrogen facilities, highlighting the many global renewable energy companies operating or …
Latest from the UN Business and Human Rights Forum 2024
Nov 27, 2024 · The 13th annual UN Business and Human Rights Forum takes place from 25 to 27 November in Geneva, and is the world's largest annual gathering on business and human rights with more than 2,000 participants.. Our team is reporting live throughout the event with a series of audio posts giving our perspective on conversations and issues arising – but even more importantly, we’re also speaking ...