Weekly Update - 13 January 2016

The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center & The Freedom Fund

• refers to cases brought against Costco, KBR, Mars, Nestlé, & Signal Intl.

 

NEOnline/GK; Reuters

• case profile also provided

Fast Company Co.Exist (USA)

Institute for Human Rights and Business

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

• we invited Acacia Mining to respond - response provided

SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations)

• statement by company provided - denies allegations

NewZimbabwe.com

• includes statement by Zimplats (part of Impala Platinum)

TeleSurTv.net

• we invited Odebrecht to respond - response provided

Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense, Justiça Global & Sociedade Paraense de Defesa de Direitos Humanos (SDDH)

Guardian (UK)

• villagers living near area earmarked for mining operations by Myanmar Wanbao continue to face threat of forced eviction
• we invited Wanbao to respond but it did not

Inquirer (Philippines)

Bloomberg Business

Sourcing Journal (USA)

• project will focus on Bangladesh, India, Myanmar & Pakistan

Reuters

Cultural Survival

Guardian (UK); Associated Press; Daily Mail (UK); Independent (UK); G4S

• Labour party calls for G4S to be stripped of youth prison contracts 
• includes statements by company regarding allegations

Independent (UK)

Al Jazeera America; Reuters

• follows claims refugees without right to work have been subject to abuse in garment & other sectors 
• refugees will be able to apply for a work permit specific to their place of registration after 6 months 
• Syrians will only be allowed to make up 10% of an employers' staff

Human Rights Watch

• Report: How Lebanon’s residency rules facilitate abuse of Syrian refugees, including in the workplace: Available in Arabic, English and French

• lessons from Bodo Community v Shell litigation (16 Feb, Oxford)
• human rights law & the extractive industries (18-19 Feb, Panama City)
• 'GreenBiz 2016' (23-25 Feb, Phoenix)
• course for businesses impacted by the Modern Slavery Act (1 Mar, London)
• Sedex 2016: "Simplifying Supply Chain Sustainability" (2-3 Mar, London)

• BSR (Human Rights Manager)
• CORE (Communications & Advocacy Intern)
• CSR Europe (Senior Manager, Membership & Business Development)
• Intl. Alert (Eurasia Administrative Assistant)
• Shift (Advisor)