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Around the globe: Business Human Rights update
2020 has been a significant year in Human Rights with a raft of developments across the globe.
Human rights
Global ESG portal
Global | Publication | mayo 2020
There is increasing pressure on businesses to take steps to ascertain, manage and account for their human rights impacts and explain how they are doing this. This pressure is taking on a more obvious legal dimension, as notions of moral and ethical responsibility begin to transform into harder edged legal duties, predominantly through legislative and regulatory developments and litigation.
We advise clients on compliance with human rights laws, as well as the principal international frameworks containing human rights requirements for businesses, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, IFC Performance Standards and the Equator Principles.
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UK: UK Government proposals to strengthen the Modern Slavery Act
On 22 September 2020, the UK Government published its response to a 2019 consultation on potential options for strengthening section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 (the MSA), which requires certain commercial organisations to publish a slavery and human trafficking (SHT) statement on an annual basis.
Publication
Australia: Talbott v Minister for the Environment [2020] FCA 1042
The Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia has recently been tasked with inquiring and reporting in September on the adequacy and effectiveness of Australian laws to protect Indigenous cultural heritage, and how they might be improved to guarantee protection of culturally and historically significant sites.
Publication
Indigenous law update: Review of recent cases
Over the course of 2019 and first half of 2020, there have been a number of significant developments in Canadian law relating to Indigenous people and their rights and interests in lands.
Publication
From disrupted to tainted supply chains: Canadian legislation against modern slavery may be coming post-COVID
Bill S-211, An Act to enact the Modern Slavery Act and to amend the Customs Tariff (the Bill), was introduced in the Senate on February 5, 2020.
Press release
Norton Rose Fulbright and BIICL publish human rights due diligence and supply chain management study
A 2018 report.
Resource and tool
Equator Principles and COVID-19: Compliance challenges
As the world grapples with COVID-19 and looks to large infrastructure and industrial developments as powerful economic stabilizers, it is more critical than ever to ensure that such projects are financed responsibly and in line with global best practices for managing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) risks.
Contacts
Head of Public Interest Law, South Africa
Co-Head of Mining, United States
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