We are pleased to send you the BCHR Newsletter. It is aimed at providing a host of insights into the work of the Network on Business, Conflict and Human Rights (BCHR Network) and its members.

The main purpose of this newsletter is to a) share information about the work of the network and its members, and b) to strengthen co-operation and co-ordination between the network members themselves and with other interested parties.

Our newsletter is now available in four languages:

BCHR Newsletter  (English / Français / Castellano / Català)

  Network announcements  

REGISTER NOW!:  Annual meeting, 28 November 2019,  Geneva. 

  Other announcements  

a. Events, workshops, and courses

• 5th Business and Human Rights Young Researchers Summit

• Mecanismos de reclamación de Derechos Humanos

• Crisis Management & Modern Slavery

• First International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding

b. New library resources

• Research report: Arms companies failing to address human rights risks

• Transition Minerals Tracker: Analysis of renewable energy mining companies' human rights practice

  International News  

• Cambodia: Nine representatives of Bunong indigenous communities attend a hearing in French court over land disputes with company

• Killing of two land defenders in Honduras right after UN delegation visit shows country’s challenges on business & human rights

• Thailand: Child sex trafficking takes new forms such as using girls as entertainers to lure men into bars

• East Africa: Recruitment agencies' complicity in subjecting migrant workers to slavery

• As the Amazon burns, Colombia’s forests decimated for cattle and coca

• Prompted by Amazon fires, 230 investors warn firms linked to deforestation

• Ecuador: Court suspends planned auctioning of Amazon tribe lands to oil companies

• Gun companies are not exempt from responsibility to respect human rights, investors say

• DRC: For security reasons, Banro suspends most of its operations following recurrent attacks by armed rebels

• Victims & NGOs file complaint against BNP Paribas in France over alleged complicity in human rights abuse in Sudan

• Zimbabwe: Rough diamonds from the Marange diamond fields get detention order by U.S. customs and border protection

 Blogs and Opinions  

• From humanitarian worker to peacebuilder: What I've learned

• More deals, less conflict? Cross-border water planning key, report warns

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