Our Lead Researcher Olga Martin-Ortega (Professor of International Law, University of Greenwich, UK and Claire Methven O´Brien, Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for Human Rights), took part in the inter-parliamentary organized by the Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) and the Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI). The Committee on International trade (INTA) was also associated to this event.
This meeting was organized with National Parliaments on 21 April 2022 on “Corporate Responsibility for serious human rights abuses in third countries”. The aim of the meeting was to discuss the Commission’s proposal for a directive on corporate sustainability due diligence that was adopted on 23 February 2022 and its implications for Corporate Responsibility for serious human rights abuses in third countries.
Professor Olga Martin-Ortega presented a draft study for the European Parliament on the European Committee’s proposed Directive on mandatory corporate sustainability due diligence. The main aspects discussed were the points of divergence on the differing document, with the aim of improving the document, as well as the limitations of this documents, such as the absence of the recognition of indigenous communities and some environmental impacts.
This study builds on their previous work for the European Parliament DROI Subcommittee, in particular the Policy EU Human Rights Due Diligence Legislation: Monitoring, Enforcement and Access to Justice for Victims (June 2020).
In this respect, the European Parliament and its Subcommittee on Human Rights have been strongly committed to the development of EU specific and mandatory external policies to counter the negative effect of business practices on the enjoyment of human rights.
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