Sam Jones of the @heartlandorg.bsky.social opens the "Grave New World: Responsible Investment in an Age of Conflict, Commerce, and Killer Robots" session of the Fall #ICCR2025Conference

"Rwanda should stop targeting critics and put an end to abusive operations abroad. For its part, the Cycling Union shouldn’t be providing #Rwanda such easy cover for its poor #humanrights record." @minkyworden.bsky.social @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/09...

🇳🇵 GNI strongly condemns the recent violence in Nepal and urges the government to continue de-escalating the situation following its decision to lift the ban on social media services. globalnetworkinitiative.org/gni-statemen...

"Weapons have long life spans. You sell them today, and 10 or 15 years later, governments change, coups happen — and suddenly that gear is in a war zone. This is quite normal. And once it's out there, you're no longer in control." #armsproliferation #conflict www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

"This is a major step backward for international efforts to save lives by restricting the murderous junta’s access to weapons. It is unconscionable to undermine these efforts by rolling back #sanctions on #Myanmar arms dealers and junta cronies." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

"[A]ny meaningful #ceasefire must confront state sponsored hacking, #internetshutdowns & an inflammatory barrage of digital disinformation—in addition to the traditional elements of war. W/o addressing these digitally enabled ops, peace deals risk falling short." www.techpolicy.press/for-true-pea...

"I’m fleeing death in the first place only to find death waiting for me here." #ethiopia #yemen www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/w...

"Srebrenica should have been a model for post-genocide #accountability. Instead, it stands as a case study in how legal truth, w/o official and societal acknowledgment, can entrench exclusionary #nationalism." #srebrenica #warcrimes www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

"Spyware manufacturers that participate in the persecution of journalists shouldn’t be able to operate w/ impunity, and US courts must ensure that they are held accountable for their actions where those actions violate US law, as they did here." @knightcolumbia.org knightcolumbia.org/content/appe...

👉 "We are facing a #transparency deficit." @leoncastjan.bsky.social #armssales #conflict #bizhumanrights english.elpais.com/internationa...

"For while this deal represents the most practical opportunity in years to end abuses against civilians in eastern Congo, it fails to address the impunity that drives so much #conflict." @hrw.org #drc #rwanda www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

OUT NOW: Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update on #bizhumanrights legal developments globally and #justtransition litigation. @business-humanrights.org www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u...

Our new analysis reveals a rising trend in lawsuits against companies for human rights abuses linked to renewable energy projects. Explore the cases since 2009: the key sectors, communities affected, abuses alleged, and companies involved➡️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/b...

"If true, the facts alleged in the article may constitute crimes of summary execution (murder) torture and other cruel, degrading or inhuman treatment." #mozambique #totalenergies #bizhumanrights www.barrons.com/news/mozambi...

"Belarus is a warning that #democracy is fragile and that #authoritarianism is not a wrecking ball but a hatchet, which slowly chips away until everything is broken beyond recognition." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/o...

2024 was the most devastating year for children in #armedconflict in 2 decades. The UN verified 41,370 grave violations against #children, a 25% increase over the previous record high. The highest # of abuses took place in Israel/Palestine, DRC, Somalia, Nigeria & Haiti. www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

The 2025 #GlobalPeaceIndex, released by the Institute for Economics & Peace, paints a sobering picture of global stability. The world now records more active state-based #conflicts than at any time since World War II. www.visionofhumanity.org/the-10-least...

👉 "The norm that you can’t use #violence to solve political conflicts faded. And it’s contagious." #internationallaw www.ft.com/content/9bf9...

This week in #BizHumanRights... 🔵 Migrant worker abuse in wine industry 🔵 USA: xAI lawsuit over health risks & unpermitted gas turbines 🔵 Israel/OPT: Maersk divests from companies linked to illegal West Bank settlements Read & subscribe: www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u...

Danish shipping giant #Maersk has announced it will end business relationships with companies connected to Israeli #settlements in the occupied #WestBank. #bizhumanrights www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...

Sanctioned pro-Russian media are still part of Facebook's advertising revenue program, according to new research from @whattofix.tech. #bizhumanrights #russia #bigtech www.politico.eu/article/sanc...

👉 "If the U.S. administration goes after certain organizations, countries or individuals, the fear is American companies are obligated to comply. It’s had a profound impact." #bizhumanrights www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/t...

In a recently released open letter, Heartland joined @accessnow.org and other leading #humanrights and press freedom organizations in demanding #accountability from Israeli #spyware firm Paragon Solutions and its majority owner, AE Industrial Partners. www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

The #ICC has been asked to review a confidential legal report arguing that the Russia-linked #WagnerGroup has committed #warcrimes by spreading images of apparent atrocities in West Africa on social media. apnews.com/article/wagn...

Russian MPs have advanced legislation that would make it harder — or even impossible — for Western companies to reclaim the operations they abandoned. #russia #ukraine www.businessinsider.com/putin-busine...

Authorities in the UK have commissioned a #humanrights review into a $20B gas development in #Mozambique, as they assess whether to keep funding the project led by France’s #TotalEnergies. www.ft.com/content/28de...

👉 "The problem here is not the #drones themselves, which can be used lawfully in #conflict zones. It is what can be done with them in the hands of a warring party that willfully violates the #lawsofwar and wants to target civilians." @hrw.org #russia #ukraine thehill.com/opinion/5353...

"Our global agreements have proven themselves over decades, providing a vision for a better future. Today, we see dramatic steps to weaken them, creating a more dangerous world ... [W]e must answer w/ the strongest possible defence of #internationallaw & #humanrights." www.ohchr.org/en/statement...

This week in #BizHumanRights… ILO commits to world's first binding standards for gig workers www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

The Norwegian National Contact Point has concluded that #Aker BP's due diligence in the merger with #LundinEnergy Norway did not meet the #humanrightsduediligence expectations in the #OECDGuidelines. #bizhumanrights www.responsiblebusiness.no/news/the-nor...

When General Assimi Goïta seized power in 2020, there was hope for positive change in #Mali — a country facing relentless jihadist attacks and economic turmoil. Instead, the #junta has only tightened its grip on power. www.dw.com/en/mali-assi...

"The #lawsofwar provide essential guardrails to protect civilians in #armedconflict. Withdrawing from long-standing legal/humanitarian norms, such as the Mine Ban Treaty, will only increase the likelihood of harming civilians w/o improving countries’ protection." @hrw.org www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

New research by UK corporate watchdog RAID and Kolwezi-based Centre d’Aide Juridico-Judiciaire (CAJJ) reveals ongoing #laborabuses in #DRC #mines as demand for #criticalminerals surges with the green energy transition. raid-uk.org/drc-kolwezi-...

"Authoritarian governments often choose to remain silent and forget about history, while democratic societies choose to preserve the truth and refuse to forget those who have contributed to the ideals of #humanrights and the dreams they embrace." #china #tiananmensquare www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

"Regardless of the [Saudi government's] justification, what worries me the most — and irrespective of the technology itself — is the fact that this technology is being deployed in a country where #ruleoflaw is weak, there's no #transparency and no [state] #accountability." www.dw.com/en/hajj-isla...

Our colleagues at the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) have recently released the third edition of their landmark publication, "Investor Toolkit: Human Rights in Global Value Chains." Check it out! #bizhumanrights www.responsibleinvestment.org/research-and...

On this episode of @npr.org's Throughline #podcast, we travel from the battlefields of the U.S. Civil War, through the rubble of two world wars, to the hallways of the Hague, to see how the modern world has tried to define and prosecute #warcrimes. www.npr.org/2025/05/22/1...

👉 "Insofar as this process functionally means more stuff launching faster, w/ less rigorous scrutiny/opposition, it means you're creating higher #risks. Negative externalities of product changes are less likely to be prevented b4 they start causing problems in the world." www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...

A joint investigation by @nytimes.com, the @tbij.bsky.social, and Der Spiegel found that Chinese state-led programs to ship #Uyghur workers out of #Xinjiang are much more extensive than previously known. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

👉 "In the short term, companies banned by European #sanctions [on #Russia] might seek to return to do business in #Crimea ... In the longer term, it could undermine #internationallaw." #bizhumanrights www.politico.eu/article/reco...

Don’t miss this important new report from the @business-humanrights.org. It highlights the critical work of #humanrightsdefenders confronting corporate harm worldwide. A must-read for anyone committed to #justice and #accountability.

👉 "The company was not forthcoming in its motives for seeking the meeting. The White House has no plans to seek removal of #NSO from the #EntityList or to rescind the #spyware executive order." www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

👉 "While FIFA praises #SaudiArabia to the rafters and highly-paid western law firms generate vast profits for curating Saudi’s reputation, children in places like Nepal grow up without their fathers and never even learn how they died." @fairsq.bsky.social fairsq.org/saudi-arabia...

👉 "An unprecedented 83.4 million #IDPs were registered in 2024 − equivalent to the entire population of Germany − amid mass displacement from #conflicts in places like #Sudan and #Gaza, as well as floods and giant cyclones." @nrc-global.bsky.social www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

👉 "As long as Israeli companies and the Defense Ministry share an interest in providing services to countries and clients who violate #humanrights and #internationallaw, the only lesson from the #NSO affair will be: Don't get caught." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

👉 "We are surprised that such advanced militaries like the Finnish, like the Estonians, Lithuanians, Latvians, would consider putting this hugely indiscriminate #weapon in their military strategy, and what is worse, putting it in their land." #landmines www.cnn.com/2025/05/11/e...

"Never again war."

👉 "There’s a risk that the fighting in #Sudan, which has seen countless insurgencies in its decades of independence, could draw in its neighbors...That would have potentially grave implications for #regionalsecurity and place millions more lives at #risk." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Financial institutions increasingly recognize their impact on human rights, yet fail to systematically implement human rights due diligence. Join us on May 20 at 10 AM ET as we explore next steps with the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights and Finance & Human Rights: bit.ly/42B9f0c

👉 "For two months, #Israel has blocked delivery of all #aid into [Gaza]...Yet the #US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act w/ impunity."