Filip Gregor
Head of the Responsible Companies Team
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) and the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA), are pleased to announce the launch of our Human Rights Due Diligence Report, the common approaches and available options resulting from the “Human Rights Due Diligence Project.”
Over the past year, our group of Experts (Mark Taylor, Professor Olivier de Schutter, Robert Thompson and Professor Anita Ramasastry) has examined the issue of how States meet their duty to protect through using their regulatory authority to encourage or mandate human rights due diligence behavior by corporations.
Their examination was informed by private consultations with over 50 lawyers, practitioners, and representatives of civil society from each continent. The report will offer the interpretation of common approaches and available options for States to meet this duty.
We will launch our report at a side event of the U.N. Forum on Business and Human Rights, with a Keynote Address from Member of European Parliament Mr. Richard Howitt.
Please join us at the Palais des Nations on 3 December 2012 for the report launch and a reception to follow at Bar Escargot.
To RSVP, please register or email Katie Shay.
Responses are appreciated before 28 November 2012.
More information about the Human Rights Due Diligence Project.
A group of leading organisations in the field of sustainable finance, including Frank Bold, issued a joint statement with recommendations for the upcoming revision of the Non-Financial Reporting Directive*.
In December Frank Bold team co-organised a meeting of NGOs and representatives of the Member States of the European Union. The all-day meeting in Brussels was prepared in cooperation with our colleagues from European Environmental Bureau and Client Earth.
Thirty thousand people in the Czech Republic’s Liberec region face a loss of access to drinking water due to the planned expansion of the Turów coal mine. This mine is planned to newly stretch outwards to just 150 meters from the Czech border and downwards to a depth below the bottom of the Baltic. The resulting drainage of Czech underground water is not just a threat to citizens; the drying out of the area would destroy entire local ecosystems and cause significant agricultural damage. A further increase to dust and noise levels is a threat as well. Furthermore, the end date for mining is to be delayed from 2020 out to 2044.
