Due Diligence on Child Labour; new law in the Netherlands
Due Diligence on Child Labour; new law in the Netherlands Broad support in parliament Last Tuesday (7 of February) the Dutch parliament approved a new law, the Due Diligence Child Labour. The law was initiated by the Labour Party (PvdA) and after some...
Due Diligence on Child Labour: New Law in The Netherlands
Broad support in parliament On the 7th of February the Dutch parliament approved a new law, the Due Diligence Child Labour. The law was initiated by the Labour Party (PvdA) and after some amendments received broad support in Parliament. Only the Liberal Party (VVD),...
Take a closer look – current practices of Dutch business on human rights
Just after the UN Guiding Principles were launched in 2011, Human Rights@Work, together with VBDO and BECO, reviewed the status of guidelines' implementation in the Netherlands in 2012 and to provide ideas and suggestions for future elaboration of the human rights...
Oxfam GB groundbreaking report on labour rights in Unilever’s supply chain
Oxfam GB released a groundbreaking report on labour rights in Unilever’s supply chain. It is groundbreaking not so much because of its content (although as the project’s technical advisor and co-author of the report, I do think we have some fascinating findings to...
Unilever-Oxfam Report
Oxfam independently researched Unilever's factory and supply chain in Vietnam. It looked at pressing issues such as discrimination, freedom of association, wages and working hours including precarious work. Read and/or download: Unilever-Oxfam_report
Due diligence in practice: how companies in the Netherlands can combat child labour in their supply chains
Is child labour still a problem? First the good news: child labour decreased since the beginning of this century by more than 30%. One hundred and sixty-eight million children are still working as child labourers according to the International Labour Organisation...