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WorldSmart: How Businesses Can Mitigate Risk of Forced Labor in Their Supply Chains
Leaders Moving Business Forward with Alphonso David of the Human Rights Campaign
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Altering the Course of History for Women and Girls Around the World, with Latanya Mapp Frett, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women: On Record PR
Coronavirus in the Workplace
BLACK HISTORY MONTH | ELLA BAKER & MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE
In Short - The Situation: In the last month, two courts in the Ninth Circuit allowed human rights focused cases to proceed beyond the pleading stage. These cases seek to impose liability on U.S.-based companies for alleged...more
Last month, the UK Supreme Court overturned the judgment of the Court of Appeal and allowed a claim for damages from claimants in the Niger Delta to proceed against Royal Dutch Shell plc and its local subsidiary Shell...more
On 12 February 2021, the Supreme Court handed down judgment in the high profile case of Okpabi v Shell, in which it allowed a jurisdictional appeal relating to group claims brought by claimants against a UK domiciled parent...more
Could private equity funds be liable for human rights breaches by a portfolio company? A recent decision by the UK Supreme Court increases the likelihood of this outcome. This blog looks at the judgment in Vedanta Resources...more
The case of Lungowe and others v Vedanta Resources Plc and Konkola Copper Mines Plc has just been before the Supreme Court on the question of whether the courts of England and Wales should hear this overseas claim. In...more
While energy companies around the world are becoming aware of the possibility of being sued in domestic courts for human rights offenses that their global subsidiaries have allegedly committed, there is another important...more
Developing an FSRU Project in New Markets: 10 Key Considerations - As at 1 July 2017, the total number of operational floating storage and regasification units (“FSRUs”) globally stood at 26, with 23 operating as terminals...more
A landmark United Kingdom case recently has made it clear that UK-based parent companies may be found liable for human rights violations committed by their foreign subsidiaries. Plaintiffs all over the world are filing...more
It’s Friday and time for another overview of developments in the field of business and human rights that we’ve been monitoring. This week’s post includes: expected efforts by the U.S. Congress to repeal the Securities...more
Pressure on businesses to do more to address slavery is ramping-up. In July, the UK Prime Minister described slavery as ‘the greatest human rights issue of our time’. Today, 18 October, marks Anti-Slavery Day in the UK....more
The transparency provisions of the U.K. Modern Slavery Act went into effect on October 29. At the same time, the U.K. Government has released guidance for companies seeking to comply with the Act....more
On January 14, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court in Daimler AG v. Bauman held that Argentinian plaintiffs could not sue a German car manufacturer in California for human rights violations allegedly committed in Argentina. The...more
The Superior Court of Justice of Ontario’s recent ruling in the matters of Choc v. Hudbay Minerals Inc., Caal Caal v. Hudbay Minerals Inc., and German Chub Choc v. Hudbay Minerals has signaled a willingness by Canadian courts...more