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Post Why Chinese Investment Needs Gender Sensitivity: The Case of Sexual Harassment in Cambodia’s Garment Industry
A range of labour and human rights violations continue to bedevil in the global garment industry’s obscure supply chain. In particular, the insidious problem of sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence at work poses as a daily risk to garment factory workers. This guest article highlights the need for Chinese investment to be gender sensitive and to support gender equality through more responsible business conduct in this important sector.
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Post Victims’ Rights under the Second Revised Draft Treaty on Business & Human Rights
How does the 2020 Draft compare to the 2019 Revised Draft and what does it mean for the rights and protection of victims of corporate abuse? Maysa Zorob from Business & Human Rights Resource Centre takes us through the provisions relating to the scope, jurisdiction and applicable legal framework, as well as broader access to justice and remedy considerations.
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Post Investors embrace human rights in the era of Corona
COVID-19 has accelerated a rising tide of investor support for responsible human rights performance into an urgent call for change, write Oxfam America's Diana Kearney and Sharmeen Contractor
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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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Post Progress in the Newest UN Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights
In this opinion piece, Doug Cassel, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, provides an overview of key changes in the Second Revised Draft of a binding treaty on business and human rights. Cassel argues that the draft, though not ready for adoption, includes significant improvements from previous versions and is ripe for serious, good faith negotiation.
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Post Much more than a new look
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has launched its redesigned nine-language digital platform to serve business and human rights advocates around the world.
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Post US police are using facial recognition technology at protests - adding to systemic racism
Software developer and tech writer Nahla Davies highlights human rights risks associated with police use of facial recognition technology
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Post In-depth Interview with Wanda Culp and Osprey Orielle Lake - WECAN
Wanda “Kashudoha” Loescher Culp is a Tlingit activist and the Tongass Regional Coordinator for the Women's Earth and Climate Action Network (WECAN) International. Osprey Orielle Lake is the Founder and Executive Director of WECAN. WECAN’s ‘Women for Forests’ program aims to support a diverse constituency of international women as they rise up to protect forests, and prevent extractive industries threatening the Earth’s critical living systems and our global communities. Through this program, WECAN supports women frontline defenders to protect the Tongass Rainforest of Alaska, the traditional homelands of the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian Peoples and the largest national forest in the U.S. from industrial scale logging and mining.
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