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Food & Agriculture
Practising human rights due diligence in the palm oil industry
The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Ruman Rights (UNGPs) defines HRDD as a process of identifying, preventing, mitigating, and accounting for any human rights violations.
Policy & Finance
Consultancy launches in Singapore to confront ‘defensive’ approach to human rights in Asia
Too many Asian firms approach human rights as a compliance exercise, exposing vulnerable groups to abuse, says Fair Future SG founder Natasha Latiff.
The founder of the world’s biggest EV cell maker added that supply shortages in critical metals can be eased if the world is open to its recycling technology, even as the West attempts to break China’s dominance in the sector.
Policy & Finance
Migrant farm workers in UK trapped by recruitment debt bondage
After paying illegal recruitment fees in their home countries migrant farm workers in Britain become trapped in debt bondage.
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