BHRE advices the European Parliament on Due Diligence

The Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) jointly organised an online inter-parliamentary meeting with National Parliaments on 21 April 2022 on “Corporate Responsibility for serious human rights abuses in third countries”. The Committee on International trade (INTA) was also associated to this event. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the Commission's proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence that was adopted on 23 February 2022 and its implications for Corporate Responsibility for serious human rights abuses in third countries.

The meeting included the participation of Olga Martin-Ortega, Professor of International Law, University of Greenwich, UK and Claire Methven O´Brien, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, who presented their draft study for the European Parliament on the European Committee’s proposed Directive on mandatory corporate sustainability due diligence. We were pleased to have Martin-Ortega address the points of divergence on the differing document and with the aim of improving the document, address the limitations, including the absence of the recognition of indigenous communities and some environmental impacts.

In this respect, the European Parliament and its Subcommittee on Human Rights have been strongly committed to the development of EU specific and mandatory external policies to counter the negative effect of business practices on the enjoyment of human rights.

The video of the live could be accessed here.