On September 14, 2022, the European Commission released the proposal for a Regulation on prohibiting products made with forced labour on the Union market. The initiative was first announced last year by President von der Leyen in her State of the Union speech on September 15, 2021. This Regulation does not target a specific sector or region.
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EU import ban: ‘Human rights are not for sale’ says von der Leyen
On September 15, 2021, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her annual State of the European Union speech announced that the European Commission will propose a ban on products made with forced labour, stating that “There are 25 million people out there, who are threatened or coerced into forced labour. We can never accept that they are forced to make product and that these products then end up for sale in shops here in Europe”.
Read moreLandmark ruling: Canadian corporations may be held liable for breaches of international human rights law says the Supreme Court!
On February 28, 2020, the Canadian Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling in the Araya v. Nevsun Resources Ltd case, dismissing Nevsun’s motion to strike, considering that “it is not plain and obvious that corporations today enjoy a blanket exclusion under customary international law from direct liability for violations of obligatory, definable, and universal norms of international law”.
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