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Human Rights Watch accuses sponsors of China Winter Olympics of supporting Uyghur genocide

JURIST

Human Rights Watch wrote letters to sponsors, asking the sponsors to confirm whether they had “conducted human rights due diligence for the 2022 Beijing Olympics” and to explain what work was done to ensure the supply chain does not “contribute to human rights violations.”.

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Russia sentences over 200 Ukrainian fighters to prison

JURIST

Addressing an inquiry into the alleged crimes of Ukraine, Lavrov informed the news agency that Russian law enforcement authorities are diligently documenting the alleged “atrocities” committed by Ukrainian neo-Nazis that can be traced back to as early as 2014.

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Six Trends That Will Shape Public Safety in 2022

The Crime Report

Agencies should use the data they collected to embed a culture of diligence and innovation in the organization. Regardless of the approach each agency ultimately takes, any public safety strategy will have to grapple with six key trends that are likely to dominate the conversation in 2022. In 2022, these calls will get more insistent.

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TechReport 2022: Cloud Computing

LawTechnologyToday

The 2022 ABA Legal Technology Survey Report showed the surge in cloud usage we expected after March 2020 starting to take off, led by solo lawyers. The 2022 Survey focused on cloud computing as a platform for a “web-based software service or solutions,” including Software as a Service (SaaS).

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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. However, there is concern that it might mitigate the development of stronger regulatory frameworks in other countries (see FIDH , 2022).

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Australia introduces law to prevent construction of Russian embassy near parliament building

JURIST

“To our regret, Australia diligently continues to move in the main stream of the authors of the Russophobic hysteria that is now taking place in the Western countries,” Peskov said. ” The 99-year lease was acquired by Russia in 2008 to build a second embassy in the Australian capital in addition to their embassy in Griffith.

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GEDIP’s Reccommendation on the Proposal for a Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence

Conflict of Laws

As reported in this blog before (see CSDD and PIL: Some Remarks on the Directive Proposal ), the European Commission on 23 February 2022 adopted a proposal for a Directive on corporate sustainability due diligence. The text of the Recommendation can be found here.