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Global Governance of the Environment and Implications for the Insurance Industry

The insurance industry has historically had to respond to risks that corresponded to societal developments, changes in industrial practices and international conflict. Existing challenges for business and industry relating to the risks concerning the environment and society represent a new frontier that requires innovation and strategic assessment. However, there is another dimension to the challenges faced by ...

Access to Justice for Corporate Human Rights Harms. Private International Law a...

THIS ARTICLE EXAMINES THE ISSUE OF CORPORATE LIABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS THROUGH A DOUBLE LENS: THAT OF PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THAT OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW MECHANISMS. IN BOTH CASES, THE ANALYSIS FOCUSES ON THE RULES GOVERNING JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE LAW. IN DOING SO, IT SHOWCASES THE EXISTING ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS, WHETHER RELATED TO T...

Due Diligence Around the World

Enforcing Due Diligence Obligations

From 'Due Diligence' to 'Adequate Redress'

This article considers the case for compulsory corporate human rights and environmental insurance. It approaches it within the context of the need for more effective, efficient and just systems of redress for the victims of human rights and environmental harm that is caused by companies where they have operations or supply chains in single or multiple jurisdictions. Developments within the field of corporate re...

Empresas, Derechos Humanos y la COVID-19: El deber del estado de proteger la sa...

Risk-based due diligence, climate change, human rights and the just transition

Publisher Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.; Climate change has been described as one of the greatest threats to people and the planet. Its impacts affect virtually the entire spectrum of internationally recognised human rights as well as the environment in and of itself. In relation to human rights, there is a growing consensus that companies should exercise human rights due ...

50 Billions Euros: Europe's Child Labor Footprint in 2019

UE

Mapping Human Rights Due Diligence Regulations and Evaluating their Contributio...

prepared as part of a research compendium for the International Labour Organization (ILO) with the support of the Government of France and published in G. Delautre, E. Echeverría Manrique and C. Fenwick, Decent work in globalised economy: Lessons from public and private initiatives, ILO 2021, 75-108

Los modelos normativos sobre debida diligencia en derechos humanos en Europa

NOVA BHRE e NSL