Weekly Update - 28 September 2016

Climate Group; Business Green; Christian Aid

• businesses commit to transition to 100% renewable energy
• Christian Aid gives recommendations for how govt. & development banks can aid transition to renewable energy in developing countries
• see also: Case studies of human rights allegations & advances by wind & hydropower projects

(Photo credit: Kim Hansen)

UN Global Compact, Intl. Service for Human Rights, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• provides tools & resources for business-affected communities & organizations working with them, with peer-learning, guidance, case studies, directory of practitioners

Thomson Reuters

Allen & Overy's Human Rights Working Group

• review includes: "A hard-edged business approach to ending modern slavery", interview with Andrew Forrest, Fortescue Metals Group
• "Implementing the State duty to protect human rights in investment policy", Andrea Saldarriaga & Andrea Shemberg, LSE Investment & Human Rights Project
• "A collaborative approach to ending slavery and human trafficking in Asia", interview with Archana Kotecha, Liberty Asia

Brot für die Welt, CIDSE, Friends of the Earth Europe, SOMO

• identifies following issues as priorities for treaty: enforceability, extraterritorial obligations, piercing the corporate veil, access to remedy, full scope of business relationships, establishing primacy of human rights over investment rights

UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights; Human Rights Watch

ENCA (So. Africa)

RAID; Mining Watch Canada; Acacia

Danish Insitute for Human Rights & Kenya Human Rights Commission

• refers to implementation of Natl. Action Plan, new regulations, country-by-country reporting for companies on tax, access to remedy, collaboration with broad range of stakeholders

Radio New Zealand

Friends of the Earth Japan; Global Environmental Forum; Japan Tropical Forest Action Network; Mekong Watch' Rainforest Action Network; Sarawak Campaign Committee

In These Times

• adidas, Gap, H&M, Levi’s cite support of ongoing negotiations

China Dialogue

Independent Balkan News Agency; Balkan Insight - BIRN (Serbia)

• we invited Yura Corp., as well as major clients Hyundai Motor Group & Kia Motors to respond - they did not

Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability; Dutch Govt.

Independent (UK)

Middle East Eye

Doha News (Qatar)

• 2016 Intl. Uranium Film Festival (28 Sep - 2 Oct, Berlin)
• business coaching on human rights due diligence (29 Sep, Vienna)
• UK Modern Slavery Act: legal framework & implications (4 Oct, Manchester)
• advancing investigations & prosecutions in corporate human rights cases (6 Oct, register by 30 Sep, London)
• climate change & human rights expert meeting (6-7 Oct, Geneva)

• CDA Collaborative Learning Projects (Executive Director)
• Fair Foods Standards Council (3 posts: Human Rights Attorney; Human Rights Investigator; Human Rights Financial Investigator)
• ILO (2 posts: Technical Officer, Better Work; Head of Quality & Factory Services, Better Work)
• UNICEF UK (Children's Rights and Business Specialist)
• Union of Concerned Scientists (Senior Campaign Organizer, Fossil Fuel Company Accountability, Climate & Energy Program)