1. Due diligence a standard of conduct for contracting authoritiesThe concept of due diligence is a cornerstone in international law, serving as a standard of conduct for both businesses and states. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs)...
1. Continuing the SAPIENS Policy Brief Series with a focus on human rights The brief written by Laura Treviño-Lozano is based on findings from forty semi-structured interviews conducted with public buyers and experts in Spain from February to July 2023, explores...
Public buyers often buy from retailers, and retailers play a role in simplifying access to remedy. If a retailer has 800 brands, such was the case of one of the participant retailers, there is no way that a trade union will know how each of those 800 mechanisms...
Country members of the OECD spend approximately 12% of the overall GDP on public procurement. Its purchasing power and influence on the markets is often not fully deployed or underestimated. The acquisition of garments is crucial for public entities to provide...
The project leaders, lead researchers and the ESRs met at the University of Greenwich from 29 February and 1 March 2024, where the fifth project meeting of the Sapiens Network was hosted. This blog post includes a glimpse on evidences and findings produced so far...
The European Green deal will need to look not only on the ways in which government's activities, like public procurement, will stop harming the environment and contribute to tackle climate change, but also how will they mitigate the social footprint of the energy...
Our early stage researchers Laura Treviño-Lozano and Ezgi Uysal participated on the 28th of November 2022 in Oxford Pogo’s session on ‘Supply chain due diligence and public procurement’ and on the 8th of December 2022 on WorldCC Foundation 's compliance and...
This innovative book addresses the links between sustainability and human rights in the context of infrastructure projects and contributes to cover the human rights gap in the different stages of the public procurement process to deliver on infrastructure and...
Our Early Stage Researcher Laura Treviño-Lozano published a recent article in the Business and Human Rights Journal titled “Is Latin America Missing the Links Between Procurement, Sustainability and Human Rights?”. To answer this question, this article covered a...
Everybody knows public procurement accounts for a significant part of the global economy. In Latin America, it represents an average of 6% of GDP and 17.4% of public spending. But do we know what is the progress and the gaps of procurement laws and policies in...
