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Series French case law confirms necessity to reassess the weight given to audits in business and human rights court cases
Recent French case law shows that social audits are being given undue weight in some business and human rights court cases. Laura Bourgeois and Clara Grimaud from Sherpa explore what steps could be taken to reduce the illegitimate reliance on audits as evidence in court.
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Series Is the Auditing and Certification Industry Fit for Human Rights Due Diligence?
Auditing and certification providers have not effectively integrated human rights into their own policies and due diligence processes resulting in the use of deficient standards and methodologies based on an incomplete understanding of human rights, write Hannah Shaikh and Claudia Müller-Hoff.
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Series Who Audits the Auditor?: Shaping Legal Accountability Strategies to Redress Social Audit Failings
"Bringing legal claims against social auditing firms for inaccurate audits is an emerging focus of corporate legal accountability actions."
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Series Beyond social audits in supply chains: Who should monitor? Whom to trust?
As more countries, particularly in Europe, consider mandatory due diligence laws, investigative journalist Peter Bengtsen discusses how to monitor for cross-border supply chain abuses in a way that goes beyond the status quo.
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Series Human rights due diligence within the tech sector: Developments and challenges
As discussions around what accountable due diligence beyond social auditing should look like continue, how can we adequately identify and mitigate the impacts of digital technologies?
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Series Social audits fall short on gender equality
Joanne Bauer and Jenise Ogle on their research assessing the human rights outcomes of the Bonsucro Production Standard in India.
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Series Was the Brumadinho dam failure caused by a "normalisation of deviance"?
ECCHR's Claudia Müller-Hoff discusses the findings of the Vale-appointed Extraordinary Independent Consulting Committee for Investigation with regard to TÜV SÜD's role.
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Series Failing workers by design: The fatal assurances of the social auditing industry
The problems of the system can only be solved if all stakeholders conduct root cause analyses of the purchasing practices that keep workers trapped in a vicious cycle of abuse.
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Series How can responsible recruitment of migrant workers move from rhetoric to reality?
Innovative new models should be piloted to help end forced labour of migrant workers.
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Series Audits are failing – brands should cut out waste so suppliers can pay their workers a living wage
Only by paying a proper price for their products can we expect suppliers to sustainably invest in their workers and the future of their business.
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