Weekly Update - 16 November 2016

with statements/commentary by Center for Economic & Social Rights, CorpWatch, Global Witness, Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable, Oxfam, US Council for Intl. Business

• commentaries focus on labour rights & immigrant workers, business regulations, climate change & environment, taxation, trade
• our blog by Annabel Short: election is repercussion of "soulless capitalism" - in response, need to re-think business with human rights at forefront
• see also: wind & solar power will continue to grow under Trump, but climate policies & new technology will be blocked

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, Center for Intl. Environmental Law, Intl. Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), UN expert Alfred de Zayas & others

Annabel Short, Deputy Director, in TriplePundit

• cites findings of KnowTheChain’s benchmark of 20 food & beverage firms

Dr. Daniel Aguirre, Intl. Commission of Jurists

• streaming video from Forum
• side events & materials launched including NGOs' review of Canadian OECD Natl. Contact Point; responsible public procurement in Sweden & global supply chains; ASN Bank's social impact assessment of garment worker wages; "Tainted Lands: Corruption in Large-Scale Land Deals"
• we will continue to update this page throughout the week
• see also: Keynote address by John Ruggie

Access to Medicine Foundation

• GlaxoSmithKline leads; Roche & Astellas at bottom, “overtaken by peers”

Nadia Bernaz, Middlesex Univ.; Sherpa & European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights; Reuters

Standard Digital

• we invited Dominion Farms to respond - it did not

Zimbabwe Daily

Dr. Kizza Besigye, in Daily Monitor

IKV Pax Christi

• we invited AngloGold Ashanti to respond - response provided

Our Children's Trust & Earth Guardians

TeleSurTv

Manila Times; Inquirer

• we invited Gap, which sources from the factory, to respond - response provided

Mongabay

• witnesses challenge police's closing of case against companies

Radio Free Asia

Business Insider

Independent (UK)

Al-Monitor

• space for knowledge-sharing & collaboration
• includes workshop report

• course for CSR professionals on due diligence & labour rights (21-25 Nov, Turin)
• intl. human rights law & climate change policy conference (21 Nov, Stockholm)
• how business can help to tackle deforestation (21-22 Nov, London)
• dialogue: businesses' role in society & human rights obligations (22 Nov, Bogotá)
• training on ethical trade for Irish food & farming companies (24-25 Nov, Kilkenny)

• City of San Diego (Minimum Wage Program Coordinator)
• Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable (Legal & Policy Fellow)
• Physicians for Human Rights (Budget & Grants Manager)
• PODER (Program Director – Strategic Engagement, Advocacy Campaigns & PR)
• Verisk Maplecroft (Senior Sustainability Analyst, Commodity Supply Chains)