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)

  Other announcements  

a. Call for submissions

 - The Human Rights Council is currently discussing a draft resolution on environmental human rights defenders.

b. Events, workshops and courses

- HRBU holds a Sharing Experience Workshop on Civil Society Response to Business and Human Rights Violations

- Business & Human Rights Summer School

- Business & Human Rights Young Researchers Summit

c. New library resources

- Papua LNG Human Rights Impact Assessment: Focus on Gender, Security and Conflict

- Estudio exige norma para el consentimiento libre, previo e informado de los pueblos indígenas aplicado a la minería de aguas profundas.

- Rural Women, Empowerment and Mining in Malawi

- Think Twice: Can companies do business with the Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories while respecting human rights?

- Informe sobre la explotación de los recursos pesqueros del Sáhara Occidental en el marco de la ocupación del Estado marroquí

- Race to the top: Improving Canada's extractive sector corporate social responsibility strategy to safeguard human rights in Latin America

  International News  

• India: Supreme Court holds owner of mine responsible for Meghalaya collapse.

• DRC: New President supports his Predecessor's mining policies that were regularly criticized by civil society because of opacity and corruption.
• Cambodia: Prey Lang Community Network reports 152 forestry crimes committed in January in four provinces.
• DRC: At least 18 people died after a collision between a truck carrying acid to Glencore's mine and two other vehicles.
• Guatemala: Indigenous communities threatened for defending their territory against the exploitation of natural resources.
• EITI civil society board members present proposal to make gender disclosure part of the EITI Standard requirements.
• Companies Operating in a Conflict or Post-Conflict Country: Exercise Leverage or Stand Ready for Litigation.
• Guinea: Local communities filed a complaint against the World Bank for financing destructive bauxite mine.

 Blogs and Opinions  

• Australia: Tackling modern slavery now a matter of legal compliance

• Will Germany become a leader in the drive for corporate due diligence on human rights?

• A supply chain of complicity: Labour exploitation in Qatar and migrant workers' access to justice

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