Essays about: "duty of vigilance"
Found 5 essays containing the words duty of vigilance.
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1. Getting hard to resist: Prospect of mandatory human rights due diligence in Ukraine
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) introduced human rights due diligence (HRDD) as a societal expectation to businesses to implement a new kind of due diligence risk management process to ‘know and show’ they respect human rights. Ten years later, mandatory human rights due diligence (mHRDD) legislation imposing a legal duty to carry out HRDD has become mainstream across Europe. READ MORE
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2. The criterion-related validity of pupil diamater as a measurement of mental fatigue in air traffic controllers
University essay from KTH/ErgonomiAbstract : Air traffic controllers face serious responsibilities and demanding work tasks on duty, which can lead to them experiencing mental fatigue. Due to the adverse effects that fatigue has on air traffic controllers’ performance, it is important to be able to measure their fatigue levels while on duty in order to be able to intervene when the fatigue reaches critical levels. READ MORE
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3. Bridging the Accountability Gap - A study of the civil liability of parent companies for business-related human rights abuse in Sweden, France and the United Kingdom
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : The lack of accountability for human rights violations arising out of the activities of multinational enterprises has been identified as a key impediment to the fulfillment of universal human rights and the corresponding access to remedy for victims. However, the last couple of years have witnessed an increasing movement to bridge the accountability gap on the national and international level. READ MORE
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4. Shopping for a better world - whether supply chain transparency can assure clarity within the pursuit of goods untainted by intolerable practices
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : As legislators in recent years have adopted regulations demanding companies to disclose information on their supply chains, a new chapter of corporate transparency has been opened. However, what power such regulations have to initiate a change of corporate behaviour is questionable. READ MORE
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5. The French Attempt to Legalize Human Rights Due Diligence: Is France leading the European Union in Business and Human Rights?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis is a comprehensive analysis of the different regulatory designs and arguments shaping French law in order to hold French businesses liable for their human rights abuses occurring in global supply chains. It focuses on the innovative law proposal on the duty of vigilance for parent and ordering companies currently debated within the French Parliament, and France’s potential to make human rights due diligence mandatory at the domestic and at the European Union (EU) level. READ MORE
