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Framework Targets Labor Risks in Seafood Supply Chains
August 08, 2018
A group of consultants and civil society representatives has published a five-point framework, called the Labor Safe Screen, for use by food businesses around the world to determine whether their complex, global seafood supply chains are tainted by forced labor and labor safety issues.
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L’Oréal Adopts UN LGBTI Business Standards
August 08, 2018
Cosmetics company L’Oréal has announced its support of the UN LGBTI Standards of Conduct for Business, joining a growing number of large companies that have adopted the global guidelines for businesses on how to avoid discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Lloyds Ceases Funding for New Coal Plants
August 08, 2018
The Economic Times reports that the UK’s Lloyds Banking Group has joined the ranks of Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC, along with other financial institutions responding to pressure from the UN and environmental activist groups, in halting funding for new coal-fired power stations and thermal coal mines to contribute to the fulfillment of the UN’s Paris climate accord.
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Academic: Binding Treaty Draft Strikes Balance on BHR Obligations
August 08, 2018
Professor Doug Cassel of the University of Notre Dame School of Law writes that an intergovernmental working group draft of a binding UN treaty on business and human rights (BHR) “zeroes in on what victims need most” by committing countries to requiring BHR due diligence while “avoiding the imposition of unreasonable obligations on business.”
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Academic Seeks Clarity on Parent Company Liability for Rights Abuse
August 08, 2018
Dalia Palombo of the London School of Economics Department of Law writes that courts considering the liability of parent corporations for the alleged human rights abuses of their subsidiaries in foreign countries should develop clear and consistent jurisprudence, as lack of clarity on the issue has been “detrimental to both victims and companies.”
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