Weekly Update - 18 January 2017

• UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid urges business leaders to stand up for human rights
• WEF Global Risks Report recognises dangers of "fraying rule of law & declining civic freedoms", but also low awareness of impacts of the trend
• Oxfam report finds corporations working for the super-rich, leading to human rights abuses in production

• includes examples of human rights impact assessments of projects, sectors, trade & investment agreements

Business & Sustainable Development Commission; Ethical Trading Initiative

• Vodafone mobile plans enabling women in Turkey to find education & work
• Unilever programmes on hand-washing, safe drinking water & oral health
• Abraaj Group plans to improve resourcing of healthcare facilities in Africa and South Asia

EarthRights Intl.

Fresh Fruit Portal

• article includes company comments

A4ID & King's College London

Antonio Zappulla, Thomson Reuters Foundation

John Hyde, Law Society Gazette (UK); Leigh Day

Nyasa Times

African News Agency (South Africa)

Kolektif Peyizan Viktim Tè Chabè; ActionAid; Accountability Counsel

Front Line Defenders

DCAF (Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces) & UN Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament & Development in Latin America & Caribbean (UNLIREC)

Eco-Business

Kyodo

Southeast Asia Globe

Bangkok Post

Bloomberg

Council of Europe & Uppsala University

Office of the Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO)

Middle East Monitor; FT

• Israel-based NGO Monitor criticises measure as targeting "Jewish-owned" firms

• webinar on modern slavery in construction (19 Jan, online)
• training for business on human rights risk & reporting (25 Jan, Stockholm)
• emergent standards & expectations on responsible business (26 Jan, online)
• complaints mechanisms & the Alto Maipo project, Chile (26 Jan, Washington DC)
• roundtable on human rights in the big data era (27 Jan, Brussels)

• Physicians for Human Rights (Internships)
• Centre for Human Rights, Univ. of Pretoria (Director)
• ECOFACT (Legal Analyst for ESG & Reputational Risks)
• Intl. Institute for Environment and Development (Senior Researcher)
• WITNESS (2 posts: Operations Associate; US Program Coordinator)