Weekly Update - 16 March 2016

Reuters; Climate Progress; CNN Money

• mining disaster killed 19 people & caused severe environmental damage
• prosecutors claim settlement favours company, does not guarantee payment for populations not included in settlement talks

(photo credit: Senado Federal)

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and CORE Coalition

• KnowTheChain Project Lead (London or New York - deadline 21 Mar)
• Project Manager, Iran Foreign Investment Tracking Project (London or Europe - deadline 28 Mar) 
• IT & Digital Security Volunteer (London or remotely - rolling applications)
• Internships (Various locations - rolling applications)

Save the Children Japan, World Vision Japan, CSO Network Japan, Human Rights Watch, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• Nelson Garcia reportedly killed during police eviction of group from occupied land; Dutch development bank FMO suspends activities in Honduras
• comments from UN Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders & Navi Pillay, ex-UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; other UN experts endorse the call

Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment

Tax Justice Network

Guardian

Truth-out

MarketWatch

• alleges "unending stream of racist and sexist comments” & other misconduct; CEO denies allegations

Comunicação Pacs, Instituto Políticas Alternativas para o Cone Sul

• full story in Portuguese & German only; summary available in English
• we invited ThyssenKrupp to respond - response provided (in German)

Leon Kaye, in Triple Pundit

Associated Press

• see also: Al Jazeera documentary on slavery in Thai seafood industry

Interaksyon

AFP

New York Times

Jakarta Globe

Committee of Ministers, Council of Europe; European Coalition for Corporate Justice

• NGOs welcome adoption of recommendations

Guardian (UK)

• follows investigation finding poor working conditions & salaries below minimum wage for thousands of workers
• article includes statement by founder 

Arnaud Poitevin, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité

• further to our 2 March Update

Newsweek

• G4S says move is a business decision

Teksif

• we invited Hugo Boss to respond - response provided

• human rights impact of Nicaraguan Canal (18 Mar, Washington DC)
• Civil G7 Meeting, preceding G7 Summit (22-23 Mar, Kyoto)
• building supply security & resilience with smallholder farmers (22-23 Mar, London)
• corporations, globalisation & women's rights (23 Mar, New York)
• roundtable on impact of UN Guiding Principles (29 Mar, Washington DC)
• debate: effectiveness of workers' rights campaigns (31 Mar, London)
• speaker event on private sector support for SDGs (31 Mar, New York)

• EarthRights Intl. (Mekong Legal Director)
• Global CSR (Internships)
• Global Witness (Consultant, EU & Responsible Mineral Sourcing)
• Impactt Limited (Consultant, Working Conditions Vietnam)
• Namati (Director of Global Learning & Practice)
• Transparency Intl. Australia (2 posts: Programme Manager; Research & Policy Coordinator)