Navigating Uncertainty
One word sums up the outlook for business and human rights in 2025 – uncertainty. However, to say that the social, economic and environmental outlook is uncertain is an understatement. Alarming…
Fact Check – EUDR
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 May 2023 on the making available on the Union market and the export from the Union of…
Due diligence alert! Who wants to disclose damaging risks?
We need to talk about the disincentive to disclose risk or adverse impacts.All the new due diligence laws require some degree of disclosure of risk by companies, and yet the…
The CSDDD tsunami
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) has just passed its final hurdle in the process to becoming law. EU Member States now have two years to transpose it into…
The ILO Weighs In On Living Wages
The ILO Governing Body convened a Meeting of Experts on wage policies, including living wages in Geneva from 19 to 23 February 2024. The experts were asked to examine the…
Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (mHREDD) & Consultation
The contextDue diligence (know and show) obligations are being added to laws ranging from non-financial reporting to batteries, deforestation and green claims, ushering in a new era of corporate responsibility…
Fact Check – Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D)
EU due diligence laws are getting a lot of publicity lately. Individual politicians, Member States and organised business have questioned commitments that had already been agreed, leading to calls to…