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NGO Blasts Company over Refugee Processing Centers
August 29, 2017
A press release from Amnesty International criticizes infrastructure company Ferrovial for the operation by its subsidiary company of refugee processing centers on Nauru and Manus Islands, where Australia has sent asylum seekers arriving in its territory by boat, arguing that the company has been "complicit" in a migration system that amounts to "torture."
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Spain Establishes BHR Action Plan
August 29, 2017
The Spanish Council of Ministers has announced its approval of a National Action Plan on the country's implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) that establishes a "Monitoring Committee" assessing government efforts to carry out BHR-related measures.
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Academic: Ease Rules on Suing Businesses in US Courts
August 29, 2017
Gwynne Skinner of Willamette University College of Law calls on the US Congress to pass a law providing that federal courts have "general personal jurisdiction" over corporations doing business in the US and to allow would-be plaintiffs in other countries to sue these companies in US courts for alleged human rights violations that occurred in other countries.
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Italy Plans Expansion in BHR Criminal Liability
August 28, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Human Rights International Corner describes a planned measure in the Italian National Action Plan to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) by providing for corporate criminal liability in the case of BHR violations when a company fails to perform proper "due diligence" on its global rights impacts.
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NGO Seeks Bolstered Australian NCP Mechanism
August 28, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Law Centre has submitted a statement to a mechanism reviewing the performance of the Australian OECD National Contact Point (NCP) arguing that the government must do more to empower the NCP, which investigates global corporate human rights violations, to take action against rights-violating businesses.
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