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Series Evidence-Based Law-Making: What Lessons Have We Learnt for an Effective Due Diligence Law?
ECCJ, ECCHR and Initiative Lieferkettengesetz discuss key insights drawn from past efforts to advance responsible business conduct, including the pitfalls of social auditing as well as the need for judicial enforcement through civil liability.
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Series Key Considerations for Effective Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation
Théo Jaekel highlights three key issues with mHRDD legislation from his perspective as Legal Counsel and Business and Human Rights Expert at Ericsson, a Swedish telecomms multinational.
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Series Meaningful Provisions on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Communities Essential for any EU Legal Corporate Duty
Southern Organisations and Allied Human Rights NGOs call for the early inclusion of rightsholders in legislative processes, a law that ensures access to justice, and robust safeguards for defenders, in this perspective on mHRDD.
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Series Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence in the EU: The Promise and the Risk
Olivier de Schutter and Sharan Burrow highlight the important role EU legislation will play in strengthening the bargaining power of unions and social movements in the global South.
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Series Perspectives on EU Mandatory Due Diligence Legislation: A Resource Centre Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed our vulnerable global economic system, with workers feeling the brunt of the ensuring crisis. Can growing momentum towards mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD) give hope for a more equitable future?
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Series Europe’s new law to end corporate abuse should learn from Obama's legacy
For those in Europe seeking evidence that robust due diligence laws work both to end abuse in business and promote prevention, there are powerful lessons to learn from the new assertiveness of the Forced Labour Division of the Customs and Border Patrol.
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Series European companies should stop putting profit over people and planet
BHRRC's Saskia Wilks and Johannes Blankenbach discuss a joint call for EU mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence by European companies and why this is needed right now.
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Series Exploring core elements of an EU regulation on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence
Robert McCorquodale and Martijn Scheltema look at the potential scope, type of obligations, and enforcement model of upcoming EU due diligence legislation, taking a joint civil and common law perspective.
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Series Why rightsholder consultation is the gateway to effective human rights due diligence
The best and only way to understand corporate human rights risks is to understand the perspectives of rightsholders who experience them, argues Matthew Mullen.
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Series What US businesses need to know about the proposed EU law on corporate due diligence
Following the EU Justice Commissioner's announcement in April, Ben Rutledge looks at what a law could mean for US companies.
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