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17 Mar 2014

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Compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

FIDH Briefing Paper on business & human rights "Enhancing Standards and Ensuring Redress" (Mar 2014) - with company responses & non-responses

[Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited Ahava, Groupe Forrest Intl, Vale to respond. Groupe Forrest & Vale responses provided. Ahava did not respond] In March 2014, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) issued a briefing paper titled "Business and Human Rights: Enhancing Standards and Ensuring Redress". In the briefing paper FIDH calls on the international community to take urgent steps at national, regional and international levels to ensure effective redress mechanisms are available for corporate-related human rights abuses.

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Resource Centre launches new briefing - highlights human rights lawsuits against companies over alleged abuses in over 25 countries

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Businesses across the Middle East must put human rights above the bottom line (press release)

Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Bulletin – Issue 11, December 2013

Amesys lawsuit (re Libya)

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