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Transitions/Human Rights

All about the wider issues that come out of the sustainability transitions including human rights

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Responsibility for human rights can get complicated

Once a government has signed an international treaty and implemented it into national law, then all companies in that country (including their overseas subsidiaries) are also bound by the same obligations.

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Don't get left behind on human rights law

It's not just in Europe where human rights law is flexing its muscles - the US is getting into the act as well.

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Human rights doesn't respect country boundaries

In late July London’s Court of Appeal agreed to reopen a $7 billion lawsuit by 200,000 claimants against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP

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