The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark has published its key findings for 2019. It reports improvement among the ‘original’ 100 companies,...
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"...the inherent dignity and... the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice...
The global response to climate change will involve the transformation of energy, land, urban, infrastructure and industrial systems, and...
Day three of this year's Forum focused on the crossover between human rights and climate change, the use of mediation to resolve...
Day 2 of this year’s Forum saw calls for a ‘smart mix’ of business and human rights regulation in domestic law, suggestions for...
The world’s foremost summit on business and human rights kicked off in Geneva yesterday with some novel suggestions on how to turn the...
Last month the UK government published guidance to help public authorities identify and mitigate the risks of modern slavery in their...
The start of a new European Commission also means setting new political priorities in the EU tax field. As the European Commission is...
These are special times in Brussels policy circles. With a new European Commission due to take office and a new European Parliament that...
By: Mina Aryobsei, Iris Hammerschmid, Marius Scherb and Marlen Vesper-Gräske In Switzerland, calls for a law to hold corporations liable...
On 14 May 2019, the Dutch Senate took a historic step by adopting the Child Labour Due Diligence Law (Wet zorgplicht kinderarbeid) and –...
Spanish telecoms company MasMovil has become the first borrower to include a sustainability linked loan in a leveraged loan package. The...