Weekly Update

Experts warn access to justice narrowing

Sif Thorgeirsson, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in openGlobalRights

• Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launches 3rd Annual Briefing on Corporate Legal Accountability

Guardian (UK)

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• includes: B-Team report on ending anonymous companies; B-Team and B-Corps join forces; interview with Mike Posner of NY Stern Business School; and calls for climate action

MISEREOR, Brot für die Welt, European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights

• we invited EnBW & E.ON to respond to concerns about sourcing coal allegedly linked to human rights abuses in Colombia - responses provided

IndustriALL

Retail Times (UK)

Daily Nation (Kenya)

• includes company comments

Intl. Labor Rights Forum

Daily Nation (Kenya)

Nature (USA); Tico Times (Costa Rica); BBC

• we invited HKND Group (Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development) to respond - response provided

The Nation

Vivian Berger, Columbia Law School, in National Law Journal (USA)

Citizen; NDTV Profit; Firstpost; Press Trust of India; ToxicsWatch Alliance; Intl. Business Times; Scroll.in; Hindu; Huffington Post; Medecins Sans Frontieres; Business Today; Hindustan Times

• access to medicines on agenda, as US pressures to dilute patent protections

Tokyo Shimbun

• unofficial English language summary of original Japanese article 
• decision made despite govt. review panel stating executives should have taken adequate measures against a tsunami 

Quartz

Phil Bloomer, Executive Director, and Bobbie Sta. Maria, Southeast Asia Regional Researcher, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Dr. Liang Xiaohui, China National Textile and Apparel Council & Peking University

• 展望2015：中国的“支柱二”政策转变以及企业在《指导原则》上的实践

• companies discussed in the report include: Alstom, Randgold Resources, Tahoe Resources, Innophos, National Thermal Power Company & others

Rosia Montana

Clean Clothes Campaign

• also available in Arabic: إسرائيل: انتهاكات خطيرة للعمال التايلنديين المهاجرين

• “State Crime” book series launch re Rio Tinto & Bougainville (London, 3 Feb)
• forum on the future for CSR in Europe (Brussels, 3-4 Feb)
• challenges & opportunities for business after human rights impact assessments (London, 4 Feb)
• 6th Alternative Mining Indaba (Cape Town, 9-12 Feb)
• panel on human rights risks around mine security (Cape Town, 11 Feb)

• ActionAid UK (Digital Campaigns Assistant)
• Avocats Sans Frontières (Pro Bono Expert)
• Fair Food Standards Council (various posts: Human Rights Investigators/Monitors; Staff Attorney, Human Rights)
• Traidcraft (Chief Executive)
• UNDP (2 posts: Compliance Review Consultant; Technical/Geographic Specialists)

Servindi; M10,  AIDA, CIEL, Earthjustice

• ONG dicen que la represa amenaza al pueblo indígena Ngöbe; hacen un llamado a varios bancos para que no la financien

Sif Thorgeirsson, Centro de Información sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos, en “Open Democracy”

Comité Ambientalista de la Venta del Sur

Milenio (México)

Comisariado de La Sierrita (México)

Amnistía Internacional

Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico; Semana; El Espectador

El Piñero de la Cuenca (México)

IndustriALL

Mendoza On Line y Los Andes (Argentina)

Red de Acción en Plaguicidas RAP-Chile

El Imparcial (México)

Proceso (México)

Unión Sindical Obrera

Collectif Ethique sur l’étiquette

Novethic; Sherpa; Observatoire des multinationales (France)

l'Agefi (Suisse)

Sif Thorgeirsson, Centre de Ressources sur les Entreprises et les Droits de l'Homme, dans openGlobalRights

L'Express (France)

Observatoire des multinationales (France)

RSE et PED

Observatoire des multinationales

Basta ! (France)

IndustriALL

Novethic (France)