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Lawyer Seeks ADR in Supply-Chain Contracts to Promote BHR Agenda
October 30, 2015
Martijn Scheltema of the law firm Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn writes that a contract-mandated alternative dispute resolution ("ADR") process, such as through arbitration and mediation, could permit buyers to hold their supply chain to account in implementing the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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Academic: BHR Treaty Should Include Criminal Liability
October 30, 2015
Dr. Nadia Bernaz of Middlesex University School of Law argues that a binding treaty on business and human rights ("BHR"), currently in negotiation at the UN, should establish that corporations are subject to criminal liability for serious human rights violations and bind governments to act to prevent and redress less-serious human rights violations.
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UN Seeks Stock Exchange Support of ESG Agenda
October 30, 2015
In an effort supported by the UN Global Compact, investors and companies have sent letters to 64 stock exchanges calling on them to seek reporting from businesses in their market on efforts to implement the UN's environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") agenda, in order to permit investors, and the UN, to evaluate their progress on these factors.
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NGO Calls for UK Legal Tools for Overseas BHR Violations
October 29, 2015
The CORE Coalition has published a report calling for the UK to develop enhanced legal tools with which it can threaten to prosecute criminally UK corporations that allegedly commit overseas violations of the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and that would ease the burdens overseas plaintiffs face in bringing lawsuits against such corporations in Britain.
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OAS Considers Implementation of BHR Agenda
October 29, 2015
Executive Director of the Due Process of Law Foundation Katya Salazar discusses a special session held by the Permanent Council of the Organization of the American States ("OAS") on the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and calls for the OAS to focus more attention on implementing the agenda, especially in the extractive industry.
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