CIDSE demands on corporate transparency met by European legislators

Campaigners celebrated as the European Parliament and European Council met key demands of the coalition on corporate transparency, Publish What You Pay. CIDSE has demanded changes to the Accounting and Transparency directives which will require oil, gas, mining and forestry companies listed on European stock exchanges to publish what they pay governments. This country-by-country-reporting will improve the possibility of local campaigners to learn what their governments are paid by European and transnational companies.

Professor Ramasastry on Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States

Professor Anita Ramasastry on “Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States”

Human Rights Due Diligence: the Role of States

Human Rights Due Diligence: The Role of States, a project by ICAR, ECCJ and CNCA, December 2012

Amol Mehra (ICAR) on Due Diligence - hearing voices from the ground

Amol Mehra, Director of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR), talks about the Human Rights Due Diligence Project, at the Latin America regional consultation organised by CIDSE (Peru, October 2012)

Human rights due diligence report presented at U.N.

A new report outlining existing instruments and available options for States to meet their duty to ensure corporations are not contributing to human rights violations was presented on Monday 3 December at the United Nations in Geneva.

Protect, Respect and Remedy Framework

Keys for implementation and follow-up of the mandate, CIDSE 3rd submission to the UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, October 2010 (also available in FR) 

Comments on draft UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights

Letter to Prof. John Ruggie, UN Special Representative on Business and Human Rights, 31 January 2011 (also available in FR)

Work programme of the UN Working Group on Business & Human Rights

Work programme of the United Nations Working Group on Business & Human Rights - CIDSE submission, December 2011 (also available in ES - FR)

Country by country reporting

For the poor people of resource-rich countries more transparency is vital.

Business and human rights in the United Nations

CIDSE believes that the UN can play an important role in preventing and substantially reducing cases of serious corporate violations of human rights.