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The newsletter prepared by the researchers of the NOVA BHRE presents some of the key developments in the field of Business, Human Rights and the Environment and ESG.

2022

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Key ESG Developments – March 2022

To celebrate international women’s day, eighty-two civil society organizations addressed a letter to the European Commission, Parliament, and Council urging them to assure an effective and gender-responsive corporate sustainability due diligence legislation
The Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI) and Advancing Land-Based Investment Governance (ALIGN) published two complementary resources (a business guide and a legal primer) on human rights risks to communities linked to wind and solar project deployment
Resource Centre on Business and Human Rights publishes report of human rights due diligence activities from 93 companies operating in Ukraine and/or Russia
Un global compact network UK made an urgent call on businesses to act in face of the Ukraine crisis, providing guidelines and good practices
“Cotton campaign” lifted its call for a global boycott of Uzbekistan after a report finding no evidence of central government-imposed forced labour
Growing number of companies cutting ties with Russia following its invasion of Ukraine
Democratic Republic of Congo’s High Court ordered Panda International Congo Engineering to pay full healthcare costs and lost wages to an injured worker of a cobalt mine
Rights (IACHR) recognised that climate change is a human rights emergency and calling on states to take action to limit the anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gases
Mexican Supreme Court ordered the cancellation of mining concessions in Tecoltemi, ending two decades of community opposition

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