Resources

The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill sets out some core building blocks for a fit-for-purpose corporate accountability law in the UK.  

On 10 May, the House of Lords will debate The Commercial Organisations and Public Authorities Duty (Human Rights and Environment) Bill (COPAD Bill).

On January 28, 2022, the Batani Foundation sent an open letter to the Russian federation, raising concerns over the recent attacks and criminalisation against Indigenous leaders and activists in Russia.

Indigenous leaders from Africa and South America have spoken to members of the UK parliament about the need to prioritise the rights of indigenous peoples in UK legislative proposals on sustainable commodity supply chains, and to ensure that British laws hold UK companies and financiers accountable to affec

Editor’s Note: Please RSVP for the press briefing on 15 February in Amsterdam. 

Dear Friends,The principle that the enjoyment of human rights is both the means and the goal of development, highlights the importance of human rights monitoring as a means for empowering rights-holders to exercise their rights, whilst holding States and other actors accountable for their human rights obligations.   

"GENEVA (07 August 2013) –States need to do more to honour and strengthen their treaties with indigenous peoples, no matter how long ago they were signed, UN human rights chief Navi Pillay has said in a statement to mark International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples on 9 August.“Even when signed or otherwise agreed more than a century ago, many treaties remain the cornerstone for the protection of the identity, land and customs of indigenous peoples, determining the relationship they have with the State. They are thus of major significance to human rights today,” she said.

Dear Friends,Whenever someone remarks that a solution is being frustrated by ‘lack of political will’, I automatically ask myself: whose is the political will and what are the interests pushing for the opposite? 

This document contains Volume IV of the series of compilations of United Nations human rights bodies’ jurisprudence pertaining to indigenous peoples and covers the years 2009 and 2010. It includes all of the UN treaty bodies and the recommendations of the Human Rights Council's Universal Peer Review mechanism.Also see Volume I: 1993-2004, Volume II: 2005-2006, Volume III: 2007-2008 and Volume V: 2011-2012 under related reports.