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Latest posts:
- The Hidden Burden of Proof: How the EU Forced Labour Guidelines Reshape the Allocation of Proof
- Corporate Climate Obligations after the Omnibus Reforms: Rethinking the Way Forward
- India’s Gig-Workers Law and the Responsibility to Respect
- Privacy by Design in Human Rights Due Diligence: Four Tensions, One Mechanism
- Privacy by Design in Human Rights Due Diligence: Bridging the GDPR and Emerging EU Frameworks
The Hidden Burden of Proof: How the EU Forced Labour Guidelines Reshape the Allocation of Proof
On 26 June 2026, the European Commission adopted Guidelines on Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 (Forced Labour Regulation, or FLR), which prohibits products made with forced labour from entering the EU market. The Regulation reflects a deliberate legislative choice over how forced labour is to be established. Article 5 places the burden on competent authorities to prove…
Corporate Climate Obligations after the Omnibus Reforms: Rethinking the Way Forward
The recent Omnibus reforms to the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) have significantly reshaped the Directive’s approach to corporate climate obligations. By removing the obligation to adopt a climate transition plan and weakening the Directive’s enforcement architecture, particularly through lower maximum penalties for non-compliance and the removal of the harmonized civil liability regime, the…
India’s Gig-Workers Law and the Responsibility to Respect
Introduction Over the New Year of 2026, tens of thousands of delivery workers went on strike across Indian cities, protesting unsafe delivery targets and arbitrary algorithmic control over their delivery time frames. The Union Labour Ministry pressed Blinkit, Zepto and Swiggy Instamart (Quick Commerce Apps) to drop the “10-minute delivery” branding. . India’s Constitution divides…
Privacy by Design in Human Rights Due Diligence: Four Tensions, One Mechanism
Part 2 of 2 Part 1 of this series documented a consistent structural pattern in EU due diligence law: instruments that mandate or induce the collection of personal data from potentially impacted individuals—the CSDDD, the Batteries Regulation, the Forced Labour Regulation, and the Deforestation Regulation—build data protection into their regulatory infrastructure and product data systems…
Privacy by Design in Human Rights Due Diligence: Bridging the GDPR and Emerging EU Frameworks
Part 1 of 2 Ten years ago, the European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ushering in a sea-change two years later in how companies operate in and with the European Union. It imposed binding data protection and privacy standards with extraterritorial reach, requiring that the collection of personal data respect, inter alia,…
Rebuilding Rights Through Relationships? Stakeholder Reconstruction in Syria
Introduction Business and Human Rights (BHR) scholarship has increasingly focused on conflict-affected and high-risk areas (CAHRAs). In this context, scholars and practitioners emphasize heightened human rights due diligence (hHRDD) , a more intensive process for identifying and addressing human rights risks in such environments, and stakeholder engagement – a strategic process focused on identifying, engaging…
Plugging the Gap? Climate Litigation and Parent Company Liability After the Omnibus
In March 2026, the EU Omnibus Directive entered into force, significantly narrowing the scope and reducing the obligations of both the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). The package drew sharp criticism from civil society organisations and legal scholars, who condemned its substance as a dismantling of corporate…
Paris Court Rules that French Duty of Vigilance Law Covers Climate Change Risks
On 25 June 2026, Chamber 34 of the Paris Judicial Tribunal – a specialized court chamber with exclusive competence to hear cases filed on the basis of the French Duty of Vigilance Law – ruled that TotalEnergies’ vigilance plan does not comply with the requirements of the law because the company failed to take into…
Child Labour Prevention For Businesses
It can be challenging for businesses to understand how to comply with the new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD/CS3D) and broader Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD) requirements, particularly when addressing child labour in their value chains. To support businesses in addressing these challenges responsibly, experts in the field of Business and Human…
The Silence That Makes People Sick: Institutional Moral Harassment at The Limits of Human Rights Due Diligence
A Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight Data from the Brazilian labour judiciary shows that institutional workplace abuse is an escalating structural crisis: between 2020 and 2024, the Labour Court system received 458,164 new moral harassment cases, with numbers growing 28% in 2024 alone. Concurrently, the SmartLab Occupational Health Observatory, coordinated by the Labour Public Ministry…
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