Many heart-wrenching stories have bombarded media about total lockdown in India to fight Covid-19. What business can do in context of suspension of labour laws to respect human rights across operations and supply chains in India?
Category Archives: Human Rights
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Feb
Feb
Virtually any industrial development nowadays with local footprint is calling for serious local stakeholder engagement. Regulators, investors and good practice to build systemic ESG risk assessment encourage proactive risk mitigation of human right related risks. 5 tips to get it right in this article
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Dec
Dec
Customs, investors, lawyers are increasing pressure on companies’ supply chains to eliminate child labor. 5 concrete suggestions from our experience.
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Nov
Nov
Multinational companies are increasingly given formal notice by civil society on the basis of human right due diligence laws. A new source of insecurity for companies as some say? What’s at stake is more profound for business and investors
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Oct
Oct
Legally binding instrument to regulate multinational companies in International Human Rights Law is making progress. Here are 6 areas to closely monitor.
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Sep
Sep
How to factor human right due diligence across investment decisions. Here’s a step by step approach developed across projects to help and provide some initial guidance.
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Aug
Aug
Technologies can improve working conditions of workers. Let’s explore risk assessment, traceability, grievance mechanism, training programs.
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Jun
Jun
Human rights due diligence laws are gaining traction all over Europe. What To Learn From France and UK’s Human Rights Due Diligence Laws?
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Mar
Mar
Every year the same question. Do we really need an International Women’s Day? Yes we do. Gender Equity is calling for more quota and more education.
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Feb
Feb
5 lessons for tech companies to apply and respect human rights in the age of digital transformation and growing scrutiny from governments and users
