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Netherlands: Business And Human Rights – The Netherlands To Introduce Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation - Mayer Brown

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On 6 December 2021, the Netherlands became the latest European government to announce plans to introduce mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD).

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Nicaragua returns 21 prisoners to Honduras

JURIST

Included among the officials that welcomed the prisoners back to Honduras were officers from the Police Directorate against Maras and Gangs Against Organized Crime (DIPAMPCO), National Directorate of Prevention and Community Security (DNPSC), and intelligence agents who had diligently coordinated their return.

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TechReport 2021: Cloud Computing

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The 2021 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report will be important historically because it gives us the first look at how lawyers responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the 2021 results might be interpreted as another example of lawyers being late arrivals to technologies widely in use in other professions and businesses.

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India police organization files case against Twitter for child pornography

JURIST

Notably, the social media giant’s safe harbor protection for the content shared on its platform remains in limbo after its repeated non-compliance with the central government’s new IT Rules of 2021.

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Civil society questions Facebook for delaying India human rights impact assessment report

JURIST

A consortium of 25 civil society organisations Wednesday published a letter sent to Facebook on January 3 2021, against the delayed release of the India Human Rights Impact Assessment (HRIA) report and lack of action towards addressing grave concerns about the company’s human rights record in India.

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Amazon 2021 Proxy Votes

Corporate Governance

Amazon 2021 annual meeting is May 26, 9 AM Pacific Time. The post Amazon 2021 Proxy Votes appeared first on Corporate Governance. To attend, vote, and submit questions during the Annual Meeting visit here. You will need the control number you got from ProxyVote or elsewhere. Amazon will limit questions to one per shareholder.

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The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: PIL and Litigation Aspects

Conflict of Laws

Introduction After extensive negotiations, on 24 April 2024, the European Parliament approved the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD or CS3D) as part of the EU Green Deal. From an older date is a 2014 special issue of Erasmus Law Review , co-edited by Kramer and Carballo Piñeiro on the role of PIL in contemporary society.