Weekly Update - 22 October 2014

Malay Mail; EarthRights Intl.; Asian Correspondent

• environmentalists claim dam will displace thousands 
• see also: "Human rights institutions in Southeast Asia: Are the “paper tigers” coming to life?" - commentary by Bobbie Sta. Maria, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, in Asian Correspondent

Blog by Phil Bloomer, Executive Director, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

GreenBiz.com; Food Navigator

• cites advances by Keurig Green Mountain, Starbucks, Unilever, but Food Tank director says most big companies "put their heads in the sand"

Institute for Human Rights and Business

Cherie Blair, in Al Jazeera

New Dawn (Liberia)

• working with AFRICARE to fund training of 150-person Ebola contact tracing team

Clarion-Ledger (USA)

CBS 60 Minutes (USA)

Equitable Cambodia & Inclusive Development Intl.

• we invited ANZ to respond; response provided

Caixin (China)

• also available in Chinese

Rights and Resources Initiative, Landesa

Lawyers.com; Tokyo Shimbun

• summary of case in English by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; original articles in Japanese only

Clare Short, chair of EITI

CORE Coalition

• we invited Tesco to respond to the rejoinder; response provided
• see previous responses to the report by Ahold, Sainsbury & Tesco

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• 31 Oct - free event with Mary Robinson, Emmanuel Umpula Nkumba (AFREWATCH, Dem. Rep. of Congo), representatives of Enough Project, Global Witness, Motorola Solutions, US Govt.
• video will also be live-streamed

• seminar on impact of fossil fuel extraction on local communities (London, 23 Oct)
• discussion on binding instrument proposals on business and human rights (Oxford, 24 Oct)
• seminar on civil society and people's tribunals (London, 25-26 Oct)
• conference on fashion industry, sustainability and human rights (London, 27 Oct)
• "Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum" (28 Oct)
• "Managing Congo's Resource Wealth: From Plunder to Shared Prosperity?" (New York, 31 Oct)

• B Team (Director of Communications)
• International Trade Union Confederation (Global Campaigner)
• International Alert (Fundraising Intern)
• Open Society Foundations (Program Officer)

Comunidades Campesinas e Indígenas de San Pedro – Arizona; Colprensa (Colombia)

• Nosotros invitamos a Ecopetrol a responder; la respuesta está disponible

Equipo de Comunicación Mesa Provincial No a las Represas (Argentina)

EFE

CompromisoRSE (España)

Página 12 (Argentina)

Adital (Brasil)

Droit sans frontières 

RFI ; Oxfam France et ROTAB (Niger) 

AFP

Libération ; FashionMag (France)

Peuples Solidaires - ActionAid