#Bizhumanrights

Tara Van Ho | #Vote 🇺🇸🇬🇧

TaraVanHo

Sometimes I wonder why we have such a hard time making headway in #bizhumanrights. Then, I examine the BHR teams at prominent corporate law firms, looking for people to invite

Leigh Day

LeighDay_Law

Thread: Toxic Waste and Cote D'Ivoire. A case study in how the activities of UK multi-national companies continue to endanger the rights, health and environments of African peoples into the

RAID

raidukorg

Today’s crucial #bizhumanrights @UKSupremeCourt hearing in @Shell v #Okpabi & others begins at 10:30amLive feed here: https://www.supremecourt.uk/live/court-01.html Follow us here & under #Okpabi for updates through the dayAlso ch

David Birchall

David_Birchallz

New publication! ‘Challenging the Commodification of Human Rights: The Case of the Right to Housing’ in Santa Clara JIL (open access) https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1240&context=scujil The article exa

Dunstan Allison-Hope

dunstanhope

A few thoughts on the first five Facebook @OversightBoard decisions published today, especially their relevance to #bizhumanrights 1/ The detailed analysis against international human rights standards in each case decision

ALTSEAN-Burma

Altsean

THREAD (1): in the last few days the #burma/#myanmar #tatmadaw implies they could #coup #NLD govt. Then they put #tanks on the streets. Where did Burma's coupmakers get the equipment

Dunstan Allison-Hope

dunstanhope

This from the @OversightBoard about the Trump case - it will "consider whether Facebook’s removal of the content respected international human rights standards, including on freedom of expression and other

Tara Van Ho | #Vote 🇺🇸🇬🇧

TaraVanHo

THREAD: @paul_gertler & his co-authors conducted an experiment in which they threatened to shut off water to people in marginalized slums in Nairobi. Several commentators have raised serious concerns on

Dunstan Allison-Hope

dunstanhope

There are many excellent threads debating the action social media companies have taken against Trump. This #bizhumanrights thread is intended to ask, “what would the UNGPs imply”? 1/12 Principle 16,

RAID

raidukorg

UK-listed company, @Petra_Diamonds, publishes its annual results today. But are its gemstones really ethical? Killings and brutal assaults at its #Tanzania mine tell a different story. Key takeaways from our

Anna Cavazzini

anna_cavazzini

Throughout this week, countries have announced measures to prevent or stop imports linked to forced labour from the #Xinjiang region in China - namely the #US, #Canada and the #UK.

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