Human Rights Watch declares that the government of Bangladesh should immediately cease its punitive restrictions on international organizations providing lifesaving humanitarian aid to the more than 200,000 Rohingya Muslims in Bangladesh. Read the full article on Human Rights Watch’s website.
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s announcement that all death row prisoners will be executed next month has drawn condemnation from human rights groups and foreign governments. Read more onthe LA Times‘s World Now blog.
Mexican Supreme Court finds unconstitutional part of a military law that allowed soldiers accused of abusing civilians to be tried by military tribunals. Read more on the LA Times.
Why do the world’s most revered companies end up embroiled in human rights abuses? What is to be done? How can the language and architecture of the human rights regime apply to companies, when it was created as a state-based system? How should all organizations in this domain–from companies with competing priorities, to resource-challenged NGOs, to the U.N. Working Group–best focus their limited time and capacity?” The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Analysis and Implementation summarizes the current state of play in the field and contributes to the agenda going forward.
Nonresident Senior Fellow and Kenan Advisory Board member Christine Bader sees Google’s deal to buy cellphone manufacturer Motorola as its biggest opportunity in corporate social responsibility to date—if Google commits to developing a smartphone free of conflict minerals. Read the full post on CSR Wire.