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Weekly Update - 10 September 2014
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UK: Traidcraft launches campaign calling on political parties to hold British companies accountable for human rights abuses abroad
Guardian (UK); Traidcraft
- full details of campaign: "Stand up for Justice"
- poll finds more than half of MPs support holding British companies accountable in UK for abuses abroad
Board with photos of missing people, posted by relatives after the 2013 Savar building collapse.
Photo credit: Sharat Chowdhury |
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2 British labour rights investigators freed after being detained by Qatar authorities
Guardian (UK), Independent (UK); Walk Free; Bloomberg (Germany); Intl. Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
- investigators work for Norway-based NGO, were investigating conditions of migrant workers
- Qatar employs migrant workers to build stadiums & infrastructure for 2022 World Cup
- Qatar Govt. said men were "interrogated for having violated" Qatari law
- also available in Arabic:
قطر: إعتقال ناشطين حقوق إنسان يحققان في أوضاع العمال المهاجرين
UN Committee on the Rights of the Child questions Morocco about impact of privatisation of schools on right to education
Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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Company responses
Non-responses
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Forthcoming events
- online discussion: forced and child labour in supply chains (1-12 Sep)
- corporations, global food system and human rights (Oslo, 11-12 Sep)
- human trafficking, human rights and business - webinar (16 Sep)
- "African Regional Forum on Business and Human Rights" (Addis Ababa, 16 Sep)
- workshop: practical guide to business and human rights (London, 17 Sep)
- conference on CSR & the legal profession (London,18-19 Sep)
- course on business implementation of UN Guiding Principles (Frankfurt, 23 Sep)
- gender equality, human rights and business - webinar (24 Sep)
- business engagement workshop on IPCC 5th Assessment Report (Washington, 25 Sep)
- training course on stakeholder engagement (Frankfurt, 25 Sep)
- "Inaugural Business for Peace Annual Event" (Istanbul, 29-30 Sep)
- "14th Conflict-Free Sourcing Initiative Workshop" (San Francisco, 29-30 Sep)
- international arbitration tribunal on business and human rights (London, 29 Sep)
- conference on preventing corporate/community conflict (Barcelona, 1-3 Oct)
- "Responsible Electronics 2014" (Burlingame, 1-2 Oct)
- conference on tax avoidance & tax justice (Barcelona, 2 Oct)
- CSR compliance workshop (Copenhagen, 3 Oct)
- course on business, conflict and peace (Basel, 6-10 Oct)
- industry, civil society and sustainable mineral production (Copenhagen, 8 Oct)
Details of these and other future events can be found here. Please send relevant event information to Sam Whannel: whannel@business-humanrights.org
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Current vacancies
Further details and other recently posted jobs available here. Please send job announcements to Sam Whannel: whannel@business-humanrights.org.
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