10 years after the adoption of United Nations Guiding Principles on Businesses and Human Rights, we need laws that require companies to respect human rights and hold them accountable if they fail to do so.
@hrw gives you 10 reasons why: 👉thread!
@hrw gives you 10 reasons why: 👉thread!
The Guiding Principles, adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council 10 years ago today, provide *voluntary* guidelines for companies on their human rights responsibilities.
Laws can make it **mandatory** for companies to respect human rights.
Laws can make it **mandatory** for companies to respect human rights.
In the jewelry sector, @hrw research has shown how, gold, diamond and other mineral supply chains remain tainted by child labor. hrw.org/news/2020/11/2…
Laws could require companies to ensure they don’t source from mines that employ children.
Laws could require companies to ensure they don’t source from mines that employ children.
Millions of workers toil in abusive conditions in the global #supplychains of apparel brands around the world.
Laws should require companies to be transparent about their #supplychains & rectify their own unfair trading and purchasing practices.
hrw.org/report/2019/04…
Laws should require companies to be transparent about their #supplychains & rectify their own unfair trading and purchasing practices.
hrw.org/report/2019/04…
Over the past decade, many industries have developed voluntary standards and certification schemes that companies can join.
But it’s not enough for industries to set their own standards – governments and laws should.
hrw.org/world-report/2…
But it’s not enough for industries to set their own standards – governments and laws should.
hrw.org/world-report/2…
The audits that companies rely on for compliance w/ voluntary standards struggle to identify & prevent abuses. The 2019 collapse of the Brumadinho dam buried more than 250 people alive. The dam had been inspected by auditors months before disaster struck.
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
bbc.com/news/world-eur…
Momentum is building.
Some governments realize that we cannot solve the world’s most pressing problems, including climate change and environmental harms, without laws requiring companies to respect human rights.
Some governments realize that we cannot solve the world’s most pressing problems, including climate change and environmental harms, without laws requiring companies to respect human rights.
France in 2017 passed its own law requiring companies to respect human rights in its supply chain.
hrw.org/news/2017/02/2…
hrw.org/news/2017/02/2…
Germany on June 11 adopted a new law requiring companies to identify and address human rights and environmental risks in their direct supply chains.
@hrw called the law a “critical step to ensure that companies operate responsibly.”
hrw.org/news/2021/06/1…
@hrw called the law a “critical step to ensure that companies operate responsibly.”
hrw.org/news/2021/06/1…
The European Union as a whole is planning legislation on human rights and environment in global supply chains.
hrw.org/news/2021/01/2…
hrw.org/news/2021/01/2…
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were a major step forward.
But the last ten years has shown most companies will only do what they are legally required to.
We NEED LAWS to require companies to respect human rights.
But the last ten years has shown most companies will only do what they are legally required to.
We NEED LAWS to require companies to respect human rights.
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