...The choice of Caucaia is no accident. Several undersea cables carry data from the nearby capital of Ceará state, Fortaleza ...

Two and a half years after the military takeover in February 2021, Myanmar remains a high-risk country for human and labour rights abuses. Garment workers are severely affected by the rapidly ...

The High Court has ruled that 13,000 Nigerian fishermen and farmers at the centre of a major oil pollution case against Shell can bring claims for breaches of their right to a clean environment under ...

Climate change is the biggest risk to human rights. Meeting its challenge requires unprecedented roll-out of renewable energy projects across all regions in the coming years and decades. This ...

The urgency to fight the climate crisis is driving a global scramble to extract the transition minerals required to power vast solar operations, wind farms, and transport electrification at enormous ...

"We are facing a direct confrontation between major transnational corporations and states. Transnationals are interfering in the fundamental political, economic and military decisions of states.

Last week, states and civil society organisations (CSOs) gathered in Geneva for the 9th session of negotiations dedicated to elaborating a legally binding instrument (LBI) on business and human rights ...

The European Union (EU) Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) entered into force in July 2024... The directive has been welcomed by a wide spectrum of business enterprises, ...

The last draft of the legally binding instrument on business and human rights was released in July 2023. While the process had some momentum until then, there has been little to no movement on the ...

To avoid climate catastrophe, renewable energy capacity must triple in the next six years. The private sector plays a critical role in this energy transition – as do Indigenous Peoples. If the ...

New allegations have surfaced following reports of worker abuse in April 2024, after the death by suicide of a migrant worker at a Needle Craft-owned factory, Fine Apparel, in Jordan. At the same ...

"Activists File Lawsuit Alleging Killings, Assaults at Del Monte Farm in Kenya" A rights group and community activists filed a lawsuit Saturday against U.S. multinational food giant Del Monte over ...