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Facebook Faces Criticism over Alleged Rights Abuse
December 27, 2017
An article in The Atlantic laments that international and national courts generally have no basis to try the tech giant Facebook and other social media platforms for complicity in human rights violations for the views and propaganda shared by their users to further mass atrocities in countries like Myanmar.
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Unions Back Initiative for Corporate Codes of Conduct
December 21, 2017
The Guardian highlights a new labor-union initiative launched in New York in November called the Worker-Driven Social Responsibility Network that aims to force companies to agree with workers in their supply chains to codes of conduct providing for enforceable standards on labor rights and conditions.
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NGO Releases 2017 "Conflict Minerals" Rankings
December 21, 2017
In November, the Enough Project released its 2017 Conflict Minerals Company Rankings as part of its campaign to force technology and jewelry companies to ramp up their "due diligence" efforts to ensure their supply chains are free from so-called "conflict minerals" produced in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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BHR "Benchmarking" Sparks Corporate Pushback
December 21, 2017
Lawyers from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP examine a broad array of business and human rights (BHR) "benchmarking" initiatives in civil society and raise potential problems related to such initiatives, such as arbitrary ranking processes and inconsistencies in the consideration of reported data, that make these projects targets for corporate pushback in the near future.
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NGOs Push EU to Require Corporate "Diligence" on Rights
December 21, 2017
In November, the European Coalition for Corporate Justice released a briefing identifying a legal obligation of EU institutions to adopt legislation providing for mandatory "human rights due diligence" rules requiring companies to investigate and redress human rights violations throughout their global supply chains.
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