#CSDDD: The German government has turned 180° against sustainability due diligence legislation and business media in Asia quickly got excited.
Their message is: “Germany is coming to its senses and so should we. Korea should also drop its workplace safety legislation.”
Do our politicians realise that their change of mind is thwarting the sustainability movement far beyond European borders?

The 🇪🇺 Critical Raw Materials Act could have addressed this issue. It could have made clear that every Strategic Partnership has to address potential governance gaps, in order to enable companies to fulfil their due-diligence obligations under the CSDDD.

We see here that the 🇪🇺 is prioritising the supply with strategic raw materials and decoupling it from companies' human-rights due diligence obligations under the CSDDD. It's bad for the environment and people in the Global South and it does not help to overcome global tensions.

#HumanRights: In 2023, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) decided 18 contentious cases (no advisory opinions). Please find below a brief thread summarizing the Court's work during 2023.

For the first time in a calendar year, the IACHR ruled that states were NOT responsible (SNR) on 3 cases: 1 against Peru (labour dispute of university worker), 1 against Costa Rica (consular protection of a foreigner) and 1 against Guatemala (foreigner access to a career as a notary). 1/5

I classified all 18 contentious cases in 6 broad categories:
1. Adoption and international custody of children: Córdoba v. PAR and María v. ARG.
2. Collective property, consultation and land title of hashtag#IndigenousPeoples: Garifuna San Juan v. HON (its the 3rd Garifuna case) and Maya Q’eqchi’ Agua Caliente v. GUA.
3. Judicial and administrative guarantees: Álvarez v. ARG, Scot Cochran v. COSTA RICA (SNR), Hendrix v. GUA (SNR), Aguinaga v. ECU and García Rodríguez v. MEX. 2/5

4. Labour rights, salaries and pension: Bendezú v. PER (SNR), Meza v. ECU and Boleso v. ARG.
5. Obstetric violence, health and hashtag#BizHumanRights duties of private hospitals: Rodríguez Pacheco v. VEN.
6. Personal integrity, torture, forced disappearance: Baptiste v. HAITI, Guzmán Medina v. COL, Núñez Naranjo v. ECU; Tabares Toro v. COL and López Sosa v. PAR. 3/5

In my view, this year's most relevant cases of the IACtHR were the following:
- García Rodríguez v. MEX: case focuses on limits to pretrial detention and reduction of judicial guarantees at expense of civil liberties. This case has huge implications as pretrial norms are included in the Federal Constitution.
- Córdoba v. PAR: This is the first case to deal with the international restitution and custody of a child from a broken marriage between a Paraguayan and an Argentinean nationals. 4/5

The IACtHR ends 2023 with 54 contentious cases (11 against Brazil) and 3 Advisory Opinions (AO) in docket and pending a ruling. This is a problem as there are very important cases that should be decided in 2024, including the first abortion case (Beatriz v. El Salvador), the first case on Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation (Tagaeri and Taromenane v. Ecuador) and the Advisory Opinions on climate change and the responsibility of manufacturers of firearms. 5/5

🌱📢 #sustainability #reporting: Companies increasingly report sustainability data (as required by law) but the data is barely discussed in shareholder meetings, a new study commissioned by @OttoBrennerStiftung finds.

What’s even more surprising: the information is hardly covered by journalists in the media, despite the public’s significant interest in environmental issues.

https://www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/konzerne-im-klimacheck/ (German only)

@grabosch Thanks Robert! It means a lot.

@lucdockendorf Thank you I appreciate your kind words.

After more than one year on here, it has become clear that the instance is not used that much by the business and human rights community.

I am also guilty of not posting as regularly as the instance would require.

Would anyone here like to take over and revive the instance as the new admin? Please let me know and we can discuss it.

If no one offers, I will close the instance on 15 January.

#BizHumanRights: Canada's Globe and Mail published a report on how Canada's lack of action to address human rights violations done by Canadian companies in Latin America could affect its candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council later this year.

The story has some quotes from me focusing on the need to have strong legislation to prevent harm to communities. Most importantly, the piece highlights the voice of Indigenous leaders and their demands to live in peace.
Link: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-as-canada-vies-for-un-human-rights-council-seat-some-indigenous/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Seeing a whole lot of folks the last couple of days arguing that "self-plagiarism" in Methods should be allowed and we should do it even if it isn't and "there are only so many ways" to describe a Method.

So I guess it's time for this again: https://scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2018/04/17/are-there-really-only-so-many-ways-to-write-the-methods

🇪🇺 Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
Trialogue deal on due diligence rules for companies: press conference today at 11.00

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231207IPR15737/deal-on-due-diligence-rules-for-companies-press-conference-today-at-11-00

Last was a short talk by @NadiaBernaz on treaty-making in business and human rights and the struggle to create binding obligations at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buQxscXDp0k (10/10) #law #HumanRights #management

@sixpack Classic!

📢Action en justice contre #YvesRocher : 47 salariés et salariées supplémentaires rejoignent l’action en justice contre l’entreprise cosmétique pour manquement à son #devoirdevigilance en Turquie.

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