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• Corporate HR violations (Movements, HR)

  Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile offers little benefit to garment workers

  5 January 2018, by OVEREEM Pauline, THEUWS Martje

  The corporate-led ethical approach to supply chain management is a failure. The majority of participating companies are taking no action to ensure minimum conditions for garment workers.
  The Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile published its first annual report on 18 December (...)

• Corporate HR violations (Movements, HR)

  European Union Aims to Scuttle Treaty on Human Rights Abuses

  24 June 2014, by DEEN Thalif

  “Corporate actors have been extremely successful in implementing public relations strategies that have helped to present business enterprises as good corporate citizens.” — Jens Martens
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  UNITED NATIONS, Jun 24 2014 (IPS) - When the United Nations began negotiating a Code of (...)

• Corporate HR violations (Movements, HR)

  Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal hears cases of corporate human rights abuses and violations, highlighting the need for a global treaty

  23 June 2014, by Global Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power

  Press release
  CORPORATE GIANTS GO ON TRIAL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN GENEVA
  Tribunal hears cases of corporate violations highlighting the need for a global treaty
  For Immediate Release
  June 23, 2014, Geneva (Switzerland) – Eight transnational corporations, including Shell, Chevron and (...)

• Corporate HR violations (Movements, HR)

  Corporate Power & Human Rights: Now is the time to call for a Binding Treaty

  18 June 2014, by BERRON Gonzalo, BRENNAN Brid, COMBES Maxime

  Maxime Combes of Attac France interviews Gonzalo Berron and Brid Brennan on the eve of the debate at the 26^th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the need for a new legal framework to end corporate impunity.
  Maxime Combes – You are saying that there is “a historic (...)

• Corporate HR violations (Movements, HR)

  A call from the Global Movement for a binding treaty to tackle corporate human rights violations

  7 May 2014, by Treaty Alliance

  Social Movements, NGOs and Human Rights Groups “Call on U.N. Human Rights Council to start developing a treaty to tackle corporate human rights violations”
  PRESS RELEASE-May 7, 2014
  Today a global alliance of civil society organizations (the Treaty Alliance), made up of a large group of civil (...)

• Corporate HR violations (Movements, HR)

  Call for an international legally binding instrument on human rights, transnational corporations and other business enterprises

  2013, by Collective / Multiple signers

  This statement has been endorsed by a wide alliance of international networks, organizations and social movements, listed below. It represents the collective expression of a growing mobilization of global civil society calling for further enhancement of international legal standards to address (...)