Weekly Update - 4 March 2015

UK OECD Natl. Contact Point; Gigaom; European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights & other NGOs

• story also available in Arabic & German:
• منظمة التعاون الاقتصادي و التنمية تدين شركة غاما الدولية لفشلها في الالتزام بمبادئ حقوق الإنسان
• OECD-Kontaktstelle in Großbritannien zu Gamma Intl./Bahrain: Verstoß gegen menschenrechtliche Verpflichtungen

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• commentaries on findings also available in Guardian & Huffington Post UK

CELS (Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales), Conectas, Dejusticia

Lori Bishop, consultant to Humanity United

Richard Karmel, Mazars

Amol Mehra, Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable, on Huffington Post Blog

Daily Nation (Kenya)

Radio Tamazuj (South Sudan)

Fola Adeleke, Mandela Institute, Univ. of Witwatersrand School of Law (So. Africa)

Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders

MiningWatch Canada and United Steelworkers; CBC News (Canada)

• (only available in Portuguese)

China Labor Watch

• responses by Disney, Intl. Council of Toy Industries, Lung Cheong Group, Mattel
• we also contacted Zhang Jia Bian Enterprise Group for a response and are continuing to follow up

Environmental Justice Foundation

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; Myanmar Times

• new response by Philips
• commentary: "How responsible are foreign investors in Myanmar?"

Jakarta Post (Indonesia)

• 日本：人権デュー・ディリジェンスのためのガイダンス(手引)

• 中国：ユニクロ、取引先工場労働環境改善に向けた新たな取り組みについて

• includes commentaries by Omia Strategy; Traidcraft; presentation by John Ruggie, former UN Special Representative on business & human rights

Times of Oman

New York Times

Centre for Applied Legal Studies & Singapore Management Univ.

Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

• course: human rights due diligence for Canadian mining firms (Toronto, 6 Mar)
• lawyers' training programme on intl. development & human rights (London, 7-8 Mar)
• capacity building workshop on business & human rights (Aarhus, 9-10 Mar)
• conference on promoting sustainable supply chains (Berlin, 10-11 Mar)
• Business Partners for Gender Equality (New York, 10-11 Mar)

• Corporate Citizenship Ltd. (Consultant, Socio-Economic Impact)
• Eileen Fisher (Human Rights Internship)
• Freshfields (Head of Corporate Responsibility)
• IPIECA (Social Responsibility Intern)
• Social Accountability International (Accountant)

Observatorio para la Protección de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos (OMCT y FIDH)

• Nosotros invitamos a las empresas mencionadas a responder: Abengoa y Gas Natural respondieron; Bonatti, Elecnor, Enagás, EXMINGUA, PTPN7, Voronezhgeologiya no respondieron

Centro de Información sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos & Centro de Derechos Humanos Miguel Agustín pro Juárez

Observatorio para la Protección de los Defensores de Derechos Humanos (OMCT y FIDH)

• Nosotros invitamos Gas Natural a responder; la respuesta está disponible

Alerta Minera Canadá y United Steelworkers

Observatorio para la protección de defensores de derechos humanos

Cooperacción

Sustentia y AECID

• Nueva guía de Sustentia sobre debida diligencia sobre derechos humanos en Colombia

ANSA; Asociación Interétnica de la selva peruana (AIDESEP)

Frontline Defenders

República.GT

Agence de Presse Sénégalaise

Le Monde (France)

Les Echos (France)

Novethic (France)

Libération (France)

Observatoire des multinationales (France)