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Due Diligence: EU-LAT Network joins two open letters calling for effective corporate sustainability law

In February of 2022, the European Commission proposed a groundbreaking Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), laying the foundation for a legislative approach for European companies to protect human rights and the environment on a global scale. If robust, the Directive has t...

Publicado el 30 de noviembre de 2022 10:05

Civil Society, MEPs and the EEAS discuss what it means to be a journalist in Central America and Mexico

The 24th and 25th of October 2022, the EU-LAT Network organised two public events in collaboration with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, where journalists and policymakers discussed what it means to be a journalist in Central America and Mexico. On Monday the 24th of October, journalists from El Salva...

Publicado el 24 de noviembre de 2022 13:40

Civil society express concern over the proposed compromised text to the EU Due Diligence Directive

In February 2022, the European Commission proposed a Directive on Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence in order to minimize the negative impacts of EU trade agreements on human rights and sustainability around the world. However, on the 29th of July, a proposed compromised text to the Direc...

Publicado el 23 de noviembre de 2022 12:23

Civil Society and MEPs call for improved access to justice for women

“Currently, legislative developments are not responding to the realities of women. Especially in the judicial system, we must not fall behind” – MEP Diana Riba. Selma Maxinez The 17th of November 2022, the EU-LAT Network co-organised the XI Annual Conference on Feminicide in the European Parlia...

Publicado el 23 de noviembre de 2022 10:20

Why is Due Diligence crucial for Latin America and the Caribbean ?

On the 23rd of February 2022, the European Commission published its proposal for a new European legislation on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence. The proposal aims to establish accountability and transparency mechanisms that ensure sustainable and responsible business conduct along supply ch...

Publicado el 2 de noviembre de 2022 13:08

Events on Journalists at risk in Mexico and Central America

On the 24th and 25th of October 2022, the EU-LAT Network organises two events in cooperation with the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, on What it means to be a journalist in Mexico and Central America. In recent years, we have witnessed a deterioration of the situation that journalists in Mexico and Centr...

Publicado el 11 de octubre de 2022 10:38

We manifest our concerns about Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez

26 CSO:s condemn the criminalization of the human rights defender Father Marcelo Pérez Pérez, Parish Priest of the Diocese of San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. Read the full pronouncement We manifest our concerns about the risks of detainment, disappearance, or assassination. Hereby,...

Publicado el 8 de julio de 2022 16:21

Militarization and rights of indigenous peoples in Chiapas

“They don´t consider our rights as indigenous people, they don´t ask if we want the National Guard. The municipal, state and federal governments made the decision to place the National Guard in our municipality.” Member of the Community Government of Chilón The municipality of Chilón in the st...

Publicado el 10 de junio de 2022 20:17

Yonny Ronay, a student sentenced to 32 years in prison for a crime he did not commit

According to the lawyers of the Human Rights Center Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Frayba), the trial against Yonny presents a series of irregularities, such as forgery of signatures, attribution of crimes unrelated to the accused and fabrication of testimonies by the prosecutor’s office in Chiapas...

Publicado el 24 de febrero de 2022 23:19