Introduction
This report compiles all relevant news,
events and materials on Doing Business Right based on the coverage provided on
our twitter feed @DoinBizRight and on various websites. You are invited to contribute
to this compilation via the comments section below, feel free to add links to
important cases, documents and articles we might have overlooked.
Highlights
OECD
Due Diligence Guidance released
On 31 May, the OECD published “OECD
Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct”. Issued after a
multi-stakeholder process with OECD and non-OECD countries and representatives
from business, trade unions and civil society, the guidance provides practical
knowledge to businesses on due diligence recommendations and related provisions
of the Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. The guidance also aims at
aligning different approaches of governments and stakeholders to due diligence
for responsible business conduct by promoting a common understanding.
International and Government
Consultations, Reports and Guidance
- Australian Government
Department of Home Affairs, Fact
Sheet: Modern Slavery Reporting Requirement
- Swiss Parliament, Counter-proposal
to the citizen initiative 'Responsible Business Initiative' (unofficial English
translation-original text published on May 4th 2018)
- Human Rights Council, Report
of the Working Group on the issue of human rights and transnational
corporations and other business enterprises on the sixth session of the Forum
on Business and Human Rights
- OECD, Due
Diligence Guidance For Responsible Business Conduct
- US National Contact Point, Specific
Instance Between the International Union of Food, Agriculture, Hotel,
Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco, and Allied Workers Associations' and The Coca-Cola
Company Related to Alleged Conduct in Indonesia
Academic, NGO and Law Firm Reports,
Papers and Investigations
- Above Ground, Transnational
Lawsuits in Canada Against Extractive Companies Developments in Civil
Litigation
- ActionAid Netherlands
and SOMO, Human
rights in wind turbine supply chains
- Asia Floor Wage Alliance, Global Labor Justice, CENTRAL, Society for
Labour and Development and Sedane Labour Resource Centre, Gender
Based Violence in the Walmart Garment Supply Chain
- Arbeit und Leben, Directive
2014/95/EU Impact Assessment on Labour Relations
- Better
Buying, Index
Report Spring 2018: Purchasing Practices Performance in Apparel, Footwear, and
Household Textile Supply Chains
- BIICL
and Norton-Rose-Fullbright, Making
sense of managing human rights issues in supply chains
- Corporate Human Rights
Benchmark (CHRB), Progress Report
- ECCHR, Enforcing
Human Rights Through Legal Means Annual Report 2017
- Genevieve LeBaron (Sheffield
Political Economy Research Institute and University of Sheffield), The
Global Business of Forced Labour: Report of Findings
- Global Witness, Amnesty
Int'l, Germanwatch & 14 other NGOs, Civil
society briefing on EU Regulation on due diligence in mineral supply chains
- Global Witness, Not
for Sale: Congo’s Forests Must Be Protected From Fossil Fuels Industry
- Human Rights Watch, Bankrolling
Abuse: Israeli Banks in West Bank Settlements
- Human Rights Watch, Joint
Letter to FIFA Concerning the Human Rights Crisis in Chechnya
- Oxfam, Contract
Disclosure Survey 2018: A review of the contract disclosure policies of 40 oil,
gas and mining companies
- Shelley Marshall, Irene Pietropaoli, and Madeline Winterbottom, Comparison of human rights due diligence
laws and regulation of work in global supply chains
In court
In the news
Accountability
Environment
Health
Human Rights
Defenders
Indigenous Rights
Investment
Labour
Mining and Minerals
Occupied Territories
Slavery
Technology
Speeches, Videos and Interviews
Academic Materials
Blogs
- Amy Sinclair, The
Tyranny Of Distance: Corporate Harm On The Frontline In The Pacific
- Carly Dooley and Marie Mekosh,
Seeking Justice: US Supreme Court Will Hear Case on World Bank Group’s
“Absolute Immunity”
- Dunstan Allison-Hope and
Mark Hodge, As
artificial intelligence progresses, what does real responsibility look like?
- Emre Eren Korkmaz, Artificial
Intelligence can be a boon for businesses, but can it protect workers?
- Erika George, How
to get away with genocide
- John Morrison, Which
Companies are Serious About Human Rights?
- Larry Cata Backer, "Where
Neither Corporate Nor International Law Converge: The Multinational Enterprise
and Societal Frameworks" -- Presentation at ASIL International Legal
Theory Interest Group
- Matthew Fenech, The
“new green”? Business and the responsible use of algorithms
- Peter Chang and Emily Holland, Hong
Kong’s changing landscape for modern slavery issues
- Peter Micek, FIFA
2018: digital rights are (finally) playable
- Phil Bloomer, Navigating the "Fourth Industrial
Revolution": can business and human rights help make tech work for the
common good?
- Phil Bloomer and Christen
Dobson, Addressing
the potential human rights risks of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”
- Valentina Azarova, The
UN Database on Business in Israeli Settlements: Pitfalls and Opportunities
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