Weekly Update - 2 September 2015

Associated Press; Hagens Berman; Bloomberg

• Nestlé says forced labour “has no place in our supply chain"
• class action lawsuit brought by pet food purchasers
• follows similar lawsuits against Costco, CP Foods over prawn supply chain

(Photo credit: Philippe Gabriel CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons)

• The treaty process can serve as a catalyst for effective reforms at domestic levels, says Geneviève Paul, FIDH

• Limiting the application of the treaty to certain corporate entities could leave victims without access to remedy, says Tom Mackall, Sodexo 

Dr. Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Univ. of Brighton

• with reflections on recent US court ruling allowing Alien Tort Statute case against ExxonMobil to proceed

General Mills; Huffington Post (USA)

DW (Germany)

Tori Loven Kirkebø, Univ. of Oslo

Enough Project

Business Day (So. Africa)

Guardian (UK)

Hakai Magazine

• canal project led by HKND Group (Hong Kong Nicaragua Development Group)

Huffington Post (USA)

• firm has settled related lawsuits; article includes statement by DuPont

PODER 

• we invited Chedraui to respond - response provided

Professor Tyler Giannini, Harvard Law School & Professor Sarah Knuckey, Columbia Law School

• we invited Barrick Gold & Endo Rights, the assessment team, to respond - responses provided 

Awas Mifee (Indonesia)

• we invited ANJ Group to respond - response provided

Jakarta Globe; Jakarta Post; Greenpeace Indonesia

Irrawaddy, US Campaign for Burma
 

IndustriALL; The Age (Australia)

• article includes company comments

Reuters

IndustriALL; Equal Times

• some concerns remain: law prohibits trade union pluralism

SciDev

The National (UAE); Equal Times; Intl. Transport Workers' Federation  (ITF)

• ILO investigation and calls for further reforms continue

• Global Child Forum 2015 (Pretoria, 8 Sep)
• short course on human rights for business people (London, 8 Sep)
• panel discussion: social responsibility & the extractives industry (London 10 Sep)
• legal workshop on business & human rights (London, 15 Sep)
• launch of Law Society business & human rights programme (London, 15 Sep)

• ActionAid UK (Advocacy Adviser, Private Sector)
• Global Witness (Senior Communications Advisor)
• Inter-American Development Bank (7-10 posts: Roster of Independent Experts)
• Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business (Deputy Director)
• UK Export Finance (Senior Social Issues Advisor)