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In Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai women roam the streets on scooters, delivering packages door-to-door. India has seen e-commence grow rapidly, with the number of consumers making online...

11 October 2017

Carrefour: interview with CSR Head Bertrand Swiderski on the Bangladesh Accord

Carrefour was one of the first companies to sign the 2013 Bangladesh Accord on Fire & Building Safety (c.f. article No. 130323) and is also one of the first to have renewed its commitment as...

4 October 2017

Argentina: agricultural sector remains black sheep amid fight against child labour

With Argentina gearing up to host the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, on 14th and 16th November in Buenos Aires, the country’s government insists that the issue...

31 August 2017

Germany: Federal Development Ministry and the DGB sign a partnership agreement aimed at reinforcing union organizations in developing countries

Two and a half years after having jointly set up in November 2014 the 'German alliance for a sustainable textile sector', which also gathers companies and NGOs together the German Minister for...

21 July 2017

The accident prevention fund, Vision Zero Fund, starts its first African project in Ethiopia

A few days after the G20 summit meeting in Hamburg, where in a landmark move the twenty richest nations made a commitment in their final declaration to promote the implementation of social and...

18 July 2017

G20 nations commit to promoting the implementation of social and environmental standards along global supply chains

NGOs have welcomed what is a first for a G20 summit meeting, which this time was held in Germany’s city of Hamburg between 07 and 08 July. In a landmark move, and for the first time ever, the G20...

11 July 2017

OECD National Contact Point for France accepts a complaint filed by a US trade union against the Natixis banking group

In an landmark case, US employees at a California-based luxury hotel have filed a complaint against Natixis, the US subsidiary of which, AEW Capital Management, oversees the site in question...

17 May 2017

Guidelines for investors to evaluate workers’ human rights and labor standards

In recognition of International Workers’ Day, on 01 May the Committee on Workers' Capital (CWC)* released its Guidelines for the Evaluation of Workers' Human Rights and Labor Standards. Produced...

3 May 2017

In brief, the European Parliament has demanded that a directive be introduced to ensure a duty of reasonable due diligence in the textile sector

In a resolution adopted on 27 April, members of the European Parliament demanded the introduction of “EU rules […] to oblige textile and clothing suppliers to respect workers’ rights”.

28 April 2017

France: Constitutional Council abandons provisions for the issuing of fines, under law on multinationals’ due diligence

On the evening of 23 March, France’s Constitutional Council ruled that the provisions for issuing fines, under the law on the due diligence of multinationals companies, are not compliant with the...

24 March 2017

The ILO revises its Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises

Although International organizations don’t compete in the human rights arena, the ILO was lagging somewhat behind others, even in terms of its trademark interest of promoting decent work. This...

20 March 2017

Prosegur: Uni Global Union turns to investors to draw their attention to what it claims are human rights violations by the Spanish security firm

On Wednesday 01 March the global union federation Uni Global Union organized an investors meeting to draw attention to human rights violations that according to Uni Global that the Spanish...

6 March 2017

How Carrefour implements its diversity policy in Argentina

Within a legal context that strange to the topic of Corporate Social Responsiblity and diversity, the French distributer applies its group-wide defined norms and has established a set of measures...

2 March 2017

Vigeo Eiris study on businesses and human rights: focus on commitments to freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining

Following on from yesterday’s article on Vigeo Eiris’ study (see article n°10081), we are now looking in greater deal at what the agency highlights as regards how companies address employees’...

23 February 2017

Vigeo Eiris publishes new study on companies and respect of human rights

A new study conducted by non-financial rating agency Vigeo Eiris, which looks at corporate conduct in terms of the respect of fundamental human rights, reveals that few companies make a tangible...

20 February 2017

France: final approval of law on multinationals’ human rights due diligence

Today 21 February, French National Assembly adopted the law that looks to oblige France’s largest companies to take reasonable care in order to pre-empt human rights violations and environmental...

20 February 2017

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