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Due diligence: MEPs adopt rules for firms on human rights and environment
24 Apr 2024 14:59 GMT
… impact on human rights and the environment. Such impact will include slavery, child … ), strengthening the ethical dimension of trade as expressed in proposals 19 …
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Portugal needs to ‘pay the costs’ of slavery and colonialism, says president
24 Apr 2024 15:03 GMT
… the creator of the transatlantic slave trade, of a culture of … amends to be made over slavery and colonisation.
skip past … era,” the high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, said last … Africans were kidnapped into slavery and forcibly transported long …
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Op-ed: Human rights issues in the farmed seafood industry and the role of certification
23 Apr 2024 08:06 GMT
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The recent investigations uncovering human rights abuses in the farmed seafood … to the extent that modern slavery has been exposed.
While … “Our vision is 100 percent slave-free chocolate – not just our … to and membership of trade unions and the capacity and …
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Antony Blinken highlights China’s Uygurs as victims of ‘genocide’ at US human rights report launch
22 Apr 2024 22:41 GMT
… on standards enshrined in international human-rights agreements, contained an extensive … over China’s human rights record, its “unfair economic and trade practices” and … States, founded on colonialism, racist slavery and inequality in labour, possession …
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Tackling modern slavery: EU finally has a tool
22 Apr 2024 11:50 GMT
… the international trade committee (INTA).
One would think slavery is … opportunity to fight modern slavery, both in the European … require companies to undertake human rights and environmental checks in … the heart of international trade.
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Sudan: Sexual violence against women at terrifying levels
25 Apr 2024 10:12 GMT
… director, Salimi Ishaq.
Sexual slavery
The Unit for Combatting Violence … and kept in "slave-like conditions" in … Victims of Enforced Disappearance (a human rights initiative).
"RSF members … need for this kind of trade" and claimed that …
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UPSC Key | 25th April, 2024 — Inheritance tax, Rwanda bill, illegal forex trading and more
25 Apr 2024 12:32 GMT
… role of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)?
— Australia … in place to monitor human rights violations and what … Read about the Transatlantic slave trade
— What do you understand … slavery ties: How Britain, its royalty profited from slave trade
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Portugal must pay costs of colonial crimes: President
25 Apr 2024 09:26 GMT
… to “pay the costs” of slavery and other colonial-era crimes … longest historical involvement in the slave trade.
Portugal ruled Goa for 450 … come after the United Nations human rights chief added his voice to … amends to be made over slavery and colonisation.
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Tory MP from slave-owning family set to gain £3m from sale of former plantation
20 Apr 2024 10:28 GMT
… slave code in the 17th century. This denied Black Africans basic human rights … out against this.”
Prescod added: “Slavery is a crime against humanity … his ancestors played in the slave trade was “deeply, deeply regrettable but …
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Portugal has to “pay costs” for its colonial past - President
24 Apr 2024 22:13 GMT
… crimes committed during the transatlantic slave trade and the colonial era, and … actions.
Last week, the UN human rights chief added his voice to … amends to be made over slavery and colonisation.