Human Rights Due Diligence & Impact Assessment
4 days ago · As set out in the UN Guiding Principles, human rights due diligence is a process for identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for human rights impacts.This includes both actual impacts occurring in the present and potential impacts that could occur in the future. Human rights due diligence is not an end in itself, but a means to an end, which is respecting …
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Saudi Arabia: ITV finds migrants constructing 'The Line' at …
2 days ago · An ITV documentary, “Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia”, has revealed severe labour rights violations for migrant workers constructing the megacity Neom.. Neom is part of the country’s ‘Vision 2030’ strategy as it tries to diversify its economy beyond oil. The documentary reports 21,000 migrant workers from India, Bangladesh and Nepal have died in …
Netherlands: Filipino & Indonesian seafarers file complaint to …
5 days ago · “DMW: We support asserting equal wages for Filipino seafarers” …The Philippine Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said it will support “any action” that would assert the right of Filipino seafarers to equal wages, reacting to a Rappler story about a Filipino-led complaint in the Netherlands seeking to strike down a years-long practice of unequal wages between …
Annual reports - Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
3 days ago · Annual Impact Report 2023/24. This year the Resource Centre’s Global Team, in over 30 locations worldwide, has worked to deliver solidarity for those facing repression, insights and propositions for those developing policy, and evidence for those seeking accountability – from repressive supply chains in Myanmar; to the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, to the dispossession …
Philippines: 9 trade unionists & HRDs killed and 4 arrested in …
5 days ago · On March 7, 2021, nine human rights defenders were killed while four were arrested. During the so-called "Bloody Sunday", the police and military served a total of 24 search warrants in the Calabarzon region, leading to 9 deaths and 7 arrests, in one of the deadliest days for activists in recent history for the Philippines.
Child labour on Nestlé farms: chocolate giant's problems continue
5 days ago · A new report by the Fair Labor Association (FLA), commissioned by Nestlé, saw researchers visit 260 farms used by the company in Ivory Coast from September to December 2014.The researchers found 56 workers under the age of 18, of which 27 were under 15. At one farm in the Divo district of the country, the FLA found evidence of forced labour, with a young …
Federal Agents Investigating Sugar Exporter Over Allegations of …
3 days ago · [Homeland Security Investigations] agents spent days last March secretly interviewing Haitian cane cutters, who were shuttled to the hotel from Central Romana’s sprawling nearby 240,000-acre plantation, where many workers, along with their families, live in ramshackle camps known as bateyes...
China's 4th Universal Periodic Review at the UN: Business and …
5 days ago · Introduction. The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a unique mechanism of the Human Rights Council that requires each UN Member State to undergo a peer review of its human rights records every 4.5 years. The UPR provides each State the opportunity to regularly: Report on the actions it has taken to improve the human rights situations in their countries and …