Weekly Update

Oneindia; Financial Express; Press Trust of India; India Resists; IUF

• companies make huge investment commitments
• police stop farmers' protest against land grabs
• open letter calls on CEOs to "spare rural livelihoods"

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

• Startschuss für unsere neue deutsche Website

• concerns include health impacts, privacy & access to medicines
• we invited Gilead Sciences to respond - response provided

Friends of the Earth International, Corporate Europe Observatory, Transnational Institute

• we invited Anglo American to respond - response provided

• we invited companies & export credit agencies to respond; Atradius, Vale, Van Oord responded
• we will indicate in a future update whether we receive responses from Export Development Canada, State Bank of India, Reliance Power

Elodie Aba, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

Copenhagen Post (Denmark)

Malawi 24

Courthouse News Service; Southern Poverty Law Center

Coalition of Immokalee Workers

Accountability Counsel; Kolektif Jistis Min & others

International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR) & Project on Organizing, Development, Education, and Research (PODER)

3S Rivers Protection Network, EarthRights International, International Rivers, Samreth Law Group

Reuters; Bangkok Post (Thailand); DPA International

South China Morning Post

• unofficial English translation of Japanese article provided

AFP

Guardian (UK); EurActiv.com (Belgium); Financial Times (UK)

• UK to investigate potential health & environmental impacts of trade deal

Independent (UK)

• includes company statement

Guardian (UK)

Gulf Times

Ahram Online

• includes submissions from Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, American Bar Association Center for Human Rights & others

• live chat on how businesses can help eradicate child labour (online, 20 Jan)
• Public Eye Lifetime Award ceremony (Davos, 23 Jan)
• challenges & opportunities for business after human rights impact assessments (London, 4 Feb)
• panel discussion on managing human rights risks around mine security operations (Cape Town, 11 Feb) 
• course on business & human rights development (Copenhagen, 23-24 Feb)

• ActionAid UK (Transparency & Accountability Project Manager)
• Business in the Community (2 posts: Communications Manager; Events Coordinator)
• ShareAction (2 posts: Director of Programmes and Advocacy; Shareholder Activism Coordinator)
• Social Accountability International (3 posts: CEO, Communications Intern; Director of Strategic Programs)
• WoMin (Research, Documentation & Project Leadership Coordinator)

Amnistía Internacional; La Vanguardia

Excelsior

Reuters

Kolektif Jistis Min et autres

Fratmat.info (Côte d'Ivoire)

Jeune Afrique

Cadre d’action des juristes de l’environnement (Burkina Faso)

Observatoire des cosmétiques (France)

L'Express (France)

Economie Matin (France)