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Series Why the UK Needs a strong Business, Human Rights and Environment Act: Lessons from the EU's advances and shortcomings
The UK can learn from the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive - both its successes and its shortcomings - to adopt a tailored Business, Human Rights and Environment Act that builds on an existing British model to create a comprehensive and effective framework to address corporate abuse.
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Series A ‘digital turn’ for sustainability due diligence? Digital tools and the CSDDD
Klaas Hendrik Eller and Antoine Duval explore how digital tools will shape the reality of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
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Series CSDDD – A timid step forward in the fight against corporate human rights abuse
Key TU representatives welcome the approval of the CSDDD, but raise concerns over its ambition. They urge member states to take full advantage of the flexibility allowed to create stronger rules that will be more effective in protecting the rights of workers and trade unions when transposing into national law.
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Series Sweden's CSDDD U-turn crucial step forward
Sweden’s fresh support for the CSDDD demonstrates there is a decisive affinity within the Council of Europe to hold companies accountable, argues Mathieu Vervynckt, Swedwatch.
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Series Beyond tier 1: Exploring “substantiated knowledge” in the German Supply Chain Act
We analysed our own database of allegations of abuse against companies headquartered in Germany to unpick how “substantiated knowledge” can be most effectively applied to ensure the spirit of the law is upheld.
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Series Step change for corporate accountability as EU member states endorse due diligence directive
Former Secretary General of the ITUC, Sharan Burrow, and BHRRC Executive Director, Phil Bloomer, reflect on the endorsement by EU member states of the CSDDD - the most important advance in business and human rights since the signing of the UN Guiding Principles in 2011.
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Series Law of unintended consequences: Rejection of the EU Due Diligence Directive will bring back Dutch Child Labour Act, driving legal fragmentation
If the CSDDD is not adopted in the final vote, there are wider implications: without a unifying directive, companies will face varying standards and expectations as important domestic legislative processes will develop - and resume - across the economic bloc. One such example is the Child Labour Due Diligence Act in the Netherlands, as David Ollivier de Leth, MVO Platform, & Joseph Wilde-Ramsing, SOMO explain.
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Series Due Diligence Directive: Europe’s vision comes under attack from within
For the last four years, the EU Commission, Parliament, and Council of member states have carefully negotiated new ground-breaking legislation to ensure markets deliver broader wealth sharing, climate security, and respect for human rights in corporate value chains. All efforts must focus on rebuilding EU-wide consensus after last week's failure by member states to endorse the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, argues Phil Bloomer, Executive Director of the BHRRC.
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Series Respecting human rights: Why the CSDDD needs to go beyond social auditing
A Directive that is conceived as yet another auditing standard passed onto suppliers will miss out on much of its historic potential to transform and future-fit the way companies do business, and tangibly improve the lives of workers and communities along global value chains.
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Series What's new?: 'Targeted update' strengthens OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
The newly published update gives rightsholders and civil society new tools to hold corporations accountable and strengthen due diligence legislation, write OECD Watch and SOMO.
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