Supply Chains Transparency and Due Diligence Legislation to Prevent Child and Forced Labour: A Guide

The thematic focus of this Guide on forced labour and child labour is intentional and timely given that 2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour – 2021.1 The Guide was developed to assist policy makers and legislators, in Canada and elsewhere, in making policy choices and designing 1 United Nations, General Assembly resolution 73/327. [...] The Canadian Legislative and Policy Landscape In the past 20 years, the Canadian government, along with the private and voluntary sectors, have led a range of initiatives to strengthen corporate social responsibility, especially for the activities of the Canadian extractive sector abroad. [...] It called for strong mechanisms for monitoring the activities of Canadian mining companies in developing countries and for dealing with complaints alleging socially and environmentally irresponsible conduct and human rights violations.7 In 2007, the Report of the Advisory Group of the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing C. [...] While the contours of the duty and the type of remedies are uncertain, it puts added pressure on business to consider their due diligence obligations”.62 Indeed, these cases highlight the tremendous importance of corporate prevention to avoid human rights violations in the first place and the subsequent costly and time-consuming human rights litigation that may follow63 and the potential role that. [...] June: Parliamentary review of the Mandate of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise.77 November: Private Member Bill S-211 (An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to amend the Customs Tariff) introduced in the Senate.