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Lex Sustineo is published by Michael Torrance.

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New principles on business and human rights endorsed by United Nations
July 18th, 2011

The United Nations Human Rights Council has endorsed the recommendations of the report of John Ruggie, the Special Representative of the United Nations (“UN”) Secretary-General on human rights and transnational business (United Nations Document A/HRC/17/31) – with significant implications for... Read more »

Case profile: AngloGold Ashanti silicosis lawsuit (So. Africa)
April 13th, 2011

In October 2006, a South African gold miner named Thembekile Mankayi sued AngloGold Ashanti, his former employer, stating that he developed the lung disease silicosis while working in Vaal Reefs mine. The lawsuit, filed in the Witwatersrand Local Division of the High Court of South Africa, sought R2... Read more »

Globe & Mail - For Canadian companies overseas, a corporate heart of darkness
March 23rd, 2011

Article questioning whether Canada is doing enough to legislate CSR practices of Canadian companies operating abroad. Read more »

Child labour-free cocoa ‘almost impossible,’ Nestlé head says
March 23rd, 2011

According to a report on the cocoa trade by the International Labour Organization (read the PDF here), an estimated 200,000 children, under the age of 18, were engaged in child labour in the Ivory Coast in 2002. But Mr. Brabeck-Letmathe’s latest comments seem to suggest that eradicating child labo... Read more »

Professor Kernaghan Webb, "CSR & the Law: Learning from the Experience of Canadian Firms in Latin America."
March 9th, 2011

On Friday, October 29, Professor Kernaghan Webb delivered a lecture on the above subject, as part of the Ryerson Institute for the Study of CSR/Federal Extractive Sector CSR Counsellor Public Seminar Series, at Ryerson University in Toronto. This particular talk was also co-sponsored by the Ryerson... Read more »

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