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• Human rights in global supply chains: Measuring the effectiveness of home state regulatory models on corporate behaviour

  11 Jan 2024

  This project is funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)'s Arts and Humanity Research Council (AHRC) in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG) as part of its UK-German…

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  Business and Human Rights+2
  Human Rights and IHLLabour Rights

• Reporting and Disclosure Obligations for Companies

  17 Aug 2023

  Legislation in the European Union and many other jurisdictions is increasingly targeting corporate entities and creating new reporting and disclosure obligations in relation to the environmental,…

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  Business and Human Rights+2
  Human Rights and IHLLabour Rights

• Identifying and comparing impacts of mHREDD legal models on internal corporate practice

  20 Jun 2023

  Legislation imposing mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (mHREDD) are multiplying. While these laws are all based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights…

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• Human Rights Responsibilities of Multi-National Enterprises Working in the Tourism and Hospitality Sector in Cuba

  15 Jun 2021 LONDON

  Companies, including foreign companies, operating in the tourism and hospitality sector in Cuba have the responsibility to respect the human rights of workers. This includes the duty to set…

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  Business and Human Rights+3
  Human Rights and IHLLabour RightsMigration

• European Commission study on due diligence in supply chains

  01 Jan 2019 LONDON

  This study for the European Commission focuses on due diligence requirements to identify, prevent, mitigate and account for abuses of human rights, including the rights of the child and fundamental…

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• A "failure to prevent" adverse human rights impacts mechanism project

  01 Oct 2018 LONDON

  In March 2017, the UK Joint Committee on Human Rights released a report on business and human rights in which it proposed the introduction of a "failure to prevent" mechanism for corporate…

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• Business and Human Rights Due Diligence in Supply Chains

  01 Mar 2017 LONDON

  The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were unanimously adopted by the UN Human Rights Council in 2011, and require all business enterprises to undertake human rights due diligence.…

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• When national law conflicts with international human rights standards

  01 Mar 2017 LONDON

  BIICL recently completed a study for the Business Network on addressing conflicts between international human rights standards and national laws. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human…

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  Business and Human Rights