DOCUMENTS & REPORTING
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Links appearing in the 29 October 2026 edition.
Documents, news coverage and useful references, in the order they appear in each report.
France / Syria / 13 April 2026
Lafarge’s Syria financing conviction tests corporate criminal accountability
- Paris Criminal Court: Lafarge judgment press statement, 13 April 2026Checked 29 October 2026
- Reuters: Paris court convicts Lafarge over Syria financing, 13 April 2026Checked 29 October 2026
- AFP via Boursorama: Lafarge appeals its conviction, 28 April 2026Checked 29 October 2026
Switzerland / 2 April 2026
Swiss consultation puts parent-company liability options on the table
- Swiss Federal Office of Justice: sustainable corporate governance consultation, 2 April 2026Checked 29 October 2026
United Kingdom / Malaysia / 26 February 2026
Dyson settles migrant workers’ case without admitting liability
- Dyson: settlement statement, 26 February 2026Checked 29 October 2026
- Leigh Day: statement on the settlement, 26 February 2026Checked 29 October 2026
- Reuters: Dyson settles Malaysian workers’ UK lawsuit, 27 February 2026Checked 29 October 2026
- Court of Appeal: Limbu v Dyson, [2024] EWCA Civ 1564Checked 29 October 2026
- UK Supreme Court: Limbu v Dyson, permission to appeal refused 1 May 2025Checked 29 October 2026
European Union / 24 February 2026
EU narrows corporate due diligence rules in final Omnibus approval
- EUR-Lex: Directive (EU) 2026/470Checked 28 October 2026
- Council of the EU: final approval of sustainability simplificationChecked 28 October 2026
European Union / 5 December 2025
EU’s first DSA fine targets X’s verification, advertising and research access
- European Commission: X fined €120 million, 5 December 2025Checked 29 October 2026
- EUR-Lex: Digital Services Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065Checked 29 October 2026
France / 17 June 2025
La Poste ruling requires a vigilance plan to identify risks and track action
- Paris Court of Appeal: La Poste vigilance-plan ruling, 17 June 2025Checked 29 October 2026
- Paris Court of Appeal judgment: RG 24/05193, 17 June 2025Checked 29 October 2026
European Union / 19 November 2024
EU forced-labour products ban creates a market-enforcement route
- Council of the EU: forced-labour products ban adopted, 19 November 2024Checked 29 October 2026
- EUR-Lex: Regulation (EU) 2024/3015 on products made with forced labourChecked 29 October 2026
Germany / 11 June 2021
Germany: Parliament adopts the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act in 2021
- Bundestag: supply-chain due-diligence law adopted, 11 June 2021Checked 29 October 2026
- Germany: official Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, German textChecked 29 October 2026
Comparative law / 2021
Business and human rights: a historical map of national developments through 2021
- France: Law 2017-399 of 27 March 2017 on the corporate duty of vigilanceChecked 29 October 2026
- Dutch Senate: adoption of the child-labour due-diligence bill, 14 May 2019Checked 29 October 2026
- Bundestag: supply-chain due-diligence law adopted, 11 June 2021Checked 29 October 2026
- Supreme Court of Canada: Nevsun Resources Ltd. v Araya, 2020 SCC 5Checked 29 October 2026
- Luxembourg: first National Action Plan on business and human rights, 2018–2019Checked 29 October 2026
Switzerland / 29 November 2020
Switzerland: why the 2020 responsible-business initiative failed despite a popular majority
- SWI swissinfo.ch: responsible-business initiative rejected despite popular majorityChecked 29 October 2026
- Swiss Federal Office of Justice: chronology of the 2020 initiative and counter-proposalChecked 29 October 2026
European Union / 29 April 2020
The 2020 promise of EU due-diligence legislation for 2021 was an agenda, not an enacted law
- Agence Europe: Reynders promises a 2021 legislative initiative, 29 April 2020Checked 29 October 2026
- European Parliamentary Research Service: towards mandatory supply-chain due diligence, 2020Checked 29 October 2026
Canada / 28 February 2020
Canada: Nevsun allowed Eritrean workers’ customary-international-law claims to proceed
- Supreme Court of Canada: Nevsun Resources Ltd. v Araya, 2020 SCC 5Checked 29 October 2026
- Supreme Court of Canada: Nevsun case in briefChecked 29 October 2026
Netherlands / 14 May 2019
Netherlands: the 2019 Child Labour Due Diligence Act and its commencement gap
- Dutch Senate: adoption of the child-labour due-diligence bill, 14 May 2019Checked 29 October 2026
- Netherlands: Child Labour Due Diligence Act, Staatsblad 2019, 401Checked 29 October 2026
United Kingdom / 10 April 2019
United Kingdom: Vedanta and the route to an English trial over alleged Zambian pollution
- UK Supreme Court: Vedanta v Lungowe, [2019] UKSC 20Checked 29 October 2026
- Vedanta v Lungowe: full Supreme Court judgmentChecked 29 October 2026
Italy / 26 November 2018
Italy: the 2018 review of its first business-and-human-rights action plan
- Italy CIDU: revised 2016–2021 National Action Plan, 2018 editionChecked 29 October 2026
- Italy CIDU: history of national action plans on business and human rightsChecked 29 October 2026
Luxembourg / 22 June 2018
Luxembourg: the 2018–2019 national action plan and its 2019 successor
- Luxembourg: first National Action Plan on business and human rights, 2018–2019Checked 29 October 2026
- Luxembourg: second National Action Plan, 2020–2022Checked 29 October 2026
Switzerland / 8 May 2018
Swiss corporate-responsibility counter-proposal: the 2018 parliamentary record
- Swiss Parliament: committee supports an indirect corporate-responsibility counter-proposal, 20 April 2018Checked 29 October 2026
- Swiss Parliament: official legislative chronology of the 2018 counter-proposalChecked 29 October 2026
Sweden / 13 March 2018
Sweden: Statskontoret’s 2018 review called for investigation of binding diligence rules
- Statskontoret: UN Guiding Principles—challenges in the state’s work, report 2018:8Checked 29 October 2026
United Kingdom / Nigeria / 14 February 2018
Shell’s 2018 jurisdiction victory was reversed: the Okpabi procedural record
- UK Supreme Court: Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell, [2021] UKSC 3Checked 29 October 2026
- Court of Appeal: Okpabi v Royal Dutch Shell, [2018] EWCA Civ 191Checked 29 October 2026
Comparative research / 2018
Alice Evans’s Hope for Reform: corporate-accountability research in its 2018 context
- UCL: 2018 event identifying Alice Evans’s Hope for Reform paperChecked 29 October 2026
- King’s College London: Overcoming the Global Despondency TrapChecked 29 October 2026
France / 27 March 2017
Reading the French 2017 corporate-duty-of-vigilance legislation
- France: Law 2017-399 of 27 March 2017 on the corporate duty of vigilanceChecked 29 October 2026
- French Treasury: explanation of the 2017 duty-of-vigilance lawChecked 29 October 2026
France / 27 March 2017
France: the 2017 duty-of-vigilance law created a plan and implementation duty
- France: Law 2017-399 of 27 March 2017 on the corporate duty of vigilanceChecked 29 October 2026
- French Treasury: explanation of the 2017 duty-of-vigilance lawChecked 29 October 2026
United Nations procurement / 2015
The 2015 UN procurement supplement: future-proofing supply chains
- UN Chief Executives Board: 2015 procurement report, published June 2016Checked 29 October 2026
- UNOPS: 2015 Annual Statistical Report on UN procurementChecked 29 October 2026
Comparative law / 4 December 2013
The Third Pillar: the 2013 study of barriers to corporate human-rights remedies
- ICAR: The Third Pillar, launched 4 December 2013Checked 29 October 2026
- BIICL: research and jurisdictional scope of The Third PillarChecked 29 October 2026
Comparative private law / 2011
Cees van Dam’s 2011 study: tort law and human-rights remedies
- Erasmus University: bibliographic record for Cees van Dam’s 2011 articleChecked 29 October 2026
- Cees van Dam: Tort Law and Human Rights—Brothers in Arms, 2011Checked 29 October 2026