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:
- More than 40 experts will join us in our next annual meeting in Geneva!
Other announcements
a. Events, workshops and courses
- Philippines Human Rights Commission's 6th Hearings on Climate-Related Human Rights Impacts of Fossil Fuel Companies
- Breakfast meeting: How Business Can Support Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders
- The launch of the 2018 results of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB)
b. New Library Resources
- A Call to Action: Ending the Use of all Forms of Child Labour in Supply Chains Report of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development
- Shared Space Under Pressure: Business Support for Civic Freedoms and Human Rights Defenders, Guidance for Companies
- Never Send to Know ..., Critical Commentary on the Sentence Jesner V. Arab Bank, Supreme Court of the United States
International News
- Statement Regarding the Colombian Attorney General’s Failure to Investigate Drummond’s Financing of the AUC
- Two Relatives of Environmental Members Killed
- U.S. Top Court Mulls Pollution Dispute Over Power Plant in India
- Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Submit File to ICC Prosecutor: Investigate and Prosecute Pillage, Appropriation and Destruction of Palestinian Natural Resources
- Liberia: Community Forestry Hijacked by Logging Companies, Risk of Future Conflict Heightens
- Sweden to Interrogate Oil Firm Over Human Rights Violation in South Sudan
- Rwanda Starts Tracking Conflict Metal Tantalum with Blockchain
- UN Condemns Murder of Julian Carrillo, Indigenous Defender of The Human Rights of the Rarámuri People of Chihuahua
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