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As businesses finalize their reports under the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act (the Act) in advance of the May 31, 2024, statutory deadline, Public Safety Canada has updated its...more
On March 26, 2024, the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) published a final report on its investigation into allegations that a Canadian mining company, Dynasty Gold Corporation (Dynasty), operating in...more
On May, 3, 2023, the House of Commons passed Bill S-211, An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to amend the Customs Tariff (the Act). The Act introduces a public...more
ESG (Environmental Social Governance) has already become an important topic in responsible corporate governance. Globally, there is a rapidly growing body of legislation that requires companies to take action and report on...more
Forced labor in the supply chain is not quite a new corporate compliance challenge; the United Kingdom and Australia, for example, have required corporations to police against such abuses in their supply chains since the...more
National and supranational legislatures continue to develop laws requiring employers to conduct due diligence of their operations and those of their business partners in order to address human rights risks such as forced...more
The Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s aggression in Ukraine have disrupted supply chains and heightened the need for supply chain due diligence to ensure business continuity and sustainability. Coupled with these events are...more
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (the "UNGPs"), the Human Rights Council noted the “unprecedented” efforts of companies and governments around the...more
This year has seen a number of international and regional legislative efforts imposing human rights due diligence and transparency obligations on multinational employers. ...more
On 21st January 2021, a roundtable was organised by the Association Française des Juristes d’Entreprises (AFJE), Doctrine and Le Grand Continent to discuss where Business and Human Rights issues stand. the following topic....more
ethikos 35, no. 1 (January 2021) - A vote that would have banned the national bank from investing in defense industries and would have also stiffen the penalties against Swiss corporations violating human rights and...more
As the world continues to battle against the Covid-19 pandemic, the resulting economic and social stress has brought many human rights issues to the fore, exacerbating systemic issues and generating new challenges. Yet the...more
This summer, one of the UK’s best-known online brands found its supply chain at the center of a high-profile modern slavery investigation. Within hours of the story breaking the company’s share price plummeted, as...more
The release on December 12, 2019, of the Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration (the BHR Rules) offers a new and innovative dispute resolution option in the field of corporate responsibility. As self-described,...more
Since it was established in 2014, a United Nations Inter-Governmental Working Group (“IGWG”) has met annually to develop a multilateral treaty to attempt to hold businesses legally accountable for harms that may be related to...more
As forced labor and sex trafficking prosecutions steadily increase, corporations may be exposed to criminal and civil corporate liability. The U.S. Department of Justice and state law enforcement are expected to...more
This is the fourth and last in a series of blogs by our Global Modern Slavery Team dealing with how companies can navigate the changing legal landscape addressing the role of business and its connection to modern slavery....more
We begin with a review of the current landscape. Interestingly, since 2015, there has been between one and three laws related to human trafficking and slavery enacted each year by countries across the globe. This has added...more
ATS Applies to Alleged Child Slavery in the Ivory Coast Supported by Decisions Made in the US - Doe v. Nestle, S.A., US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, October 30, 2018....more
Companies receiving agency-supported financing should implement anti-human trafficking compliance to avoid potential liability. U.S. law creates corporate liability for foreign and domestic entities operating in the United...more
The legislation has been hailed for blazing a trail globally with nations from Australia to India poised to pass similar laws as the world seeks to meet a United Nations goal of ending by 2030 a crime estimated to enslave at...more
Human trafficking is a global problem that is receiving the attention of legislators and law enforcement. Legislative efforts are focused largely on increasing corporate responsibility in the eradication of human trafficking....more
Are there slaves in your company’s supply chain? How do you know, and what should you do to find out? In our first episode of Stopping Traffick: Ethical Supply Chains & Corporate Risk, John Sullivan interviews Amy Groff about...more
On 17 May 2018, an unprecedented round table took place to discuss the “French duty of vigilance and civil liability in human rights matters” at our Paris office. ...more
Welcome to the first edition of BHR 360, our bi-annual Business and Human Rights newsletter. Over the past year the international community has focused its attention on the third pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on...more