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

• Registration for 1st International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding Now Open
• Public Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade

b. Events, workshops and courses

• Innovate Rights: New Thinking on Business and Human Rights 2019
• Business and Human Rights Practitioners’ Network
• Towards Criminal Liability of Corporations for Human Rights Violations: The Lundin Case in Sweden
• Teaching Business and Human Rights

c. New library resources

• Mapping artisanal mining areas and mineral supply chains in Eastern DRC.

• Project “Tierra de Resistencia”

  International News  

• Madre de Dios: Emergency to combat illegal mining and human trafficking
• Argentina: Trial against Mapuche community members due to conflict with landowners, allegedly linked to hydrocarbons companies
• Indigenous people’s livelihoods at risk in scramble for lithium
• Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
• Major new inquiry into oil spills in Nigeria’s Niger Delta launched
• Canadian court dismisses Ecuador’s $9.5 billion claim against Chevron Canada
• Zamfara violence: Nigerian govt bans mining activities in troubled state
• Gold worth billions smuggled out of Africa

 Blogs and Opinions  

• Global Witness statement on launch of London Metal Exchange Responsable Sourcing Roadmap

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