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NGO Seeks Funding for Community-Led BHR Mechanisms
January 02, 2018
Irit Tamir of Oxfam America calls on national governments to provide funding to local communities to participate in existing corporate "grievance mechanisms" or establish their own processes to investigate corporate actions that allegedly violate the business and human rights (BHR) agenda in these communities.
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Commentator: Consider Mental Health in BHR Remedies
January 02, 2018
Jo Reyes of the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights calls for companies to perform a comprehensive assessment of the need to include mental-health considerations in their business and human rights (BHR) remedial mechanisms.
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UN Group Warns of Lack of Independence of NCPs
January 02, 2018
A November blog post from the UN Working Group on business and human rights (BHR) issues calls on states to look to the provisions of the UN Guiding Principles on BHR in reforming their National Contact Points (NCPs) of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to ensure these NCPs are independent and provide effective remedies for alleged BHR violations.
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Lawyers Praise French BHR "Vigilance" Penalties
January 02, 2018
Stéphane Brabant and Elsa Savourey of the law firm Herbert Smith Freehills write that, while the elements of a French law creating a civil action for alleged victims of business and human rights (BHR) violations by French companies remain relatively weak, its penalties on companies for failing to monitor BHR violations of their subsidiaries could serve as an effective deterrent.
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Oxfam: EU Must Sanction Dozens of "Tax Havens"
December 29, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has called on EU institutions to include in their "tax haven blacklist" at least 35 countries, including "notorious tax havens such as Switzerland and Bermuda," to ensure appropriate sanctions on countries that enable corporate "tax dodging."
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