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New EU due diligence laws will apply to supply chains outside of the EU including in Vietnam. Here’s what that means for firms in Vietnam.

Oxfam, Friends of the Earth and Notre Affaire à Tous argue BNP Paribas loans to oil and gas firms breach a legally binding duty in France to ensure its activities do not harm the environment. Separately, the MENA rights group sued TotalEnergies on behalf of two people who say they were subjected to detention and torture by UAE forces at the Balhaf gas liquefaction plant operated by Yemen LNG, in which the energy major is the biggest shareholder with a 39.6% stake.

France must ensure implementation of Duty of Vigilance Law to protect human rights defenders 29/01/2021 The situation of violence against human rights defenders (HRD) [1] around the globe is alarming. HRDs, as well as their relatives and families, are intimidated, stigmatized, persecuted, harassed, criminalized, attacked and even killed while defending their communities’ rights, land, territory or environment. The severe shrinking of civic spaces ultimately undermines the possibility for HRDs to defend human rights. Even though France has adopted a pioneer legal framework to protect human ...