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Click to expand Image 2018 Pailin Wedel for Human Rights Watch As negotiations on the EU's proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive gather steam, EU lawmakers should firmly embed Indigenous peoples' rights in the text of the legislation. The directive seeks to introduce legal obligations for companies to conduct risk-based human rights and environmental due diligence in their own operations, subsidiaries, and value chains. The legislation is far from perfect, especially with regards to protecting Indigenous Peoples rights. As legislative negotiations on the text of the directive proceed between the EU Council, Commission, and Parliament, 62 organizations led by the European Coalition for Corporate Justice, including Human Rights Watch, have written to lawmakers highlighting how protections for Indigenous peoples should be strengthened. First, we are calling on lawmakers to ensure that Indigenous peoples' rights and explicitly the UN Declaration on the Righ ....

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