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Business and Human Rights

Pandemic probe: Statistics can’t capture the loss of trust and confidence

The Covid-19 response inquiry report is an important first step, but there is much more that needs to be done if the government wants to start rebuilding public trust. The number one lesson should be that response measures do not operate in a vacuum. The full human impact needs to be understood and...

Category, Opinion
Business and Human Rights

Launch of Human Rights in Supply Chains: Promoting Positive Practice

After years of debate and consultation led by Professor John Ruggie, the United Nations Special Representative for Business and Human Rights, there is now clarification at the international level about the responsibility of business through the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

Category, Speech
Business and Human Rights

Australia's Anti-Slavery Commissioner

The Australian Human Rights Commission (Commission) has provided a submission to the inquiry into the Modern Slavery Amendment (Australian Anti-Slavery Commissioner) Bill 2023 (Bill).Anti-Slavery Commissioner The Commission has previously called for the strengthening of the Modern Slavery Act 2018...

Category, Submission
Business and Human Rights

Executive discretion in a time of COVID-19

Promoting, protecting and fulfilling human rights in the contemporary public health context 11th Austin Asche Oration in Law and Governance Australian Academy of Law and Charles Darwin University Emeritus Professor Rosalind Croucher AM FRSA FACLM(Hon) FAAL TEP * Abstract Responses to the COVID-19...

Category, Speech