A lawsuit against a Canadian company for violations of customary international law in Eritrea can go forward, the Supreme Court has ruled. Eritrea is a country in east Africa. It has …
NGOs file petition to prevent importation of chocolate made with child labor
Corporate Accountability Lab (CAL), International Rights Advocates (IRAdvocates) and the UC Irvine Civil Rights Litigation Clinic today submitted a petition under section 307 of the Trade Act of 1930 to …
Total abuses in Uganda: French High Court of Justice declares itself incompetent in favour of the Commercial Court
The Nanterre High Court has handed down its decision on the summary proceedings brought by Friends of the Earth France, Survie and four Ugandan associations (AFIEGO, CRED, NAPE/Friends of the …
Transforming the labour governance of global supply chains
Activists and academics alike hailed the conclusion of the Accord on Fire and Building Safety which offered hope that lessons had been learned from the carnage of the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh. …
First Regional Conference on Sexual Harassment and the Law in Africa [Call for Papers]
ASEHI First Regional Conference Nairobi, Kenya Abstracts should preferably focus focus on the the development of sexual harassment laws in their specific countries and/or regions and should accentuate the gaps, …
The Mighty Apple, Google, Tesla, Dell and Microsoft in “the dock” – A Look At the Child Labour Lawsuit
Apple, Google (through its parent company Alphabet, Inc), Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as defendants in what could be a landmark case pertaining to the use of child …
A trade union guide to the African Court and the African Commission
“Mechanisms established under the African Charter, the African Court on Human and People’s Rights (the Court) and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (the Commission), can be used …
Firestone tires built Liberia’s economy. Now, painful layoffs are sowing fear for the future
As the price of rubber slips on the global market, Firestone — a company founded in Ohio with nine decades in this West African country — is shedding large swaths …
Chocolate companies ask for a taste of government regulation
Some of the world’s largest chocolate companies are acknowledging widespread child labor on cocoa farms and calling for regulations to discourage the practice, particularly in West Africa, the source of …
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REFLECTIONS ON THE NKALA CLASS ACTION CERTIFICATION: ENHANCING ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOR AFRICAN MINEWORKERS
Returning from the 2019 United Nations Forum on Business and Human Rights, at which class actions featured prominently in business and human rights litigation, I began reflecting on Nkala and Others …