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Colombian Court Requires Action on Rainforest, Climate
May 22, 2018
The Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia recently ruled that the country's government must take action to combat deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, citing the country's international commitments and asserting that the rainforest is an "entity subject of rights."
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Unions File OECD Complaint in Brazilian Dam Collapse
May 22, 2018
Global union federation IndustriALL has filed a complaint with the National Contact Points of Brazil, Australia, and the UK for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises claiming extractives companies BHP Billiton and Vale violated labor rights and failed to conduct due diligence to prevent and remedy the fatal collapse of a dam in Brazil in 2015.
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NGO Seeks ABA Support of Corporate Transparency Law
May 21, 2018
Amol Mehra of the nongovernmental organization International Corporate Accountability Roundtable calls on the American Bar Association (ABA) to withdraw its opposition to a bill in the US Congress that would require companies to disclose their ownership to the government to facilitate law-enforcement investigations aimed at enforcing US money-laundering laws.
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UK Presses Companies to Report Gender Pay Gap
May 21, 2018
The Guardian reports that the UK government has threatened action by the Equality and Human Rights Commission for companies that fail to report any sex-based disparities in their pay policies by a recent deadline, as the UK ramps up pressure on companies using corporate reporting mandates to accomplish the social goal of "creating fairer and more equal workplaces."
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GRI Launches Partnership on Minerals Reporting
May 21, 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the Responsible Minerals Initiative have launched a project aiming to pressure companies to perform human rights due diligence in their global minerals supply chains and to engage in public reporting on their efforts to rid these supply chains of rights abuses.
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