AUSTRALIA An alliance of Aboriginal Land Councils is supporting shareholder/investor action to force mining giant BHP and others to stop destroying Indigenous sacred sites. READ MORE The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility condemns Rio Tinto’s response to the destruction of Indigenous sacred sites in Jukaan Gorge, calls for removal of CEO. READ MORE
INDONESIA Unions are calling for signatures on a petition to stop the Indonesian government’s Omnibus Bill weakening laws that protect workers and the environment in order to facilitate foreign investment. READ MORE
MYANMAR Unionised garment workers win reinstatement and compensation following dismissal because of alleged reduction in orders because of Covid-19. READ MORE
AUSTRALIA Lawyer Bernard Collaery and “Witness K” have been prosecuted in secret for revealing the bugging of the Timor-Leste government offices in 2004 during oil and gas negotiations that would benefit Woodside Petroleum and other mining companies. CLICK HERE TO ENDORSE THE STATEMENT
GLOBAL The UN Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights has moved a step closer to acceptance. A new draft meets most objections by governments, corporations and communities including the inclusion of state-owned enterprises and limiting state obligations to those treaties governments are already a party to. READ MORE
GLOBAL Political will needed to achieve SDGs says Philip Alston, outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights (and DTP International Advisory Council member) in his final report to UN, warning SDGs on poverty eradication, economic equality, gender equality, and climate change will not be met unless there is a rethink of attitudes to poverty eradication from governments and international financial institutions. READ MORE
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