Lisa Pitz

@lisapitz.bsky.social

legal advisor on business & human rights @ECCHR views are my own (she/her)

🔍 Investigative journalist Nathan Niedermeier at @zdfde.bsky.social, after months of research, exposes how the German minister for economic affairs, Katherina Reiche, repeatedly instructed the @bafa.de NOT (❗) to enforce the German Supply Chain Act. Insiders familiar with enforcing the law said:

Ich durfte als Sachverständige im Menschenrechtsausschuss des @bundestag.de für @dielinkebt.de über das Lieferkettengesetz sprechen. ⏱️ Gutes Timing: Morgen diskutiert der Bundestag, ob das Lieferkettengesetz abgeschwächt werden soll – unter Verstoß gegen das menschenrechtliche Rückschrittsverbot! 🚫

🚨 The EU Ombudswoman confirms it: the Commission committed maladministration on #Omnibus I. Rushed, opaque, corporate-driven lawmaking is not acceptable. With more Omnibus packages coming, the message is clear: the EU cannot dismantle rights behind closed doors corporatejustice.org/news/joint-p...

JOINT PRESS RELEASE EU watchdog slams Commission’s undemocratic environmental rollbacks - ECCJ

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Die CDU hat im Europaparlament die Brandmauer eingerissen. Dabei wurde letzte Woche die Axt ans EU Lieferkettengesetz gelegt. Hier erkläre ich kurz, was die Abstimmung jetzt konkret für Menschenrechte und Arbeitnehmerrechte bedeutet. Und was euch Friedrich Merz NICHT sagt!

"We hope for a clarification from this trial that it doesn't matter if Lafarge did not want that its payment would contribute or facilitate the commission of terrorism acts. What matters is that it knew that its payments could contribute to such crime", says ECCHR's Cannelle Lavite on @france24.com.

Lafarge trial: Multinational companies 'enjoying impunity, prioritising profits over human rights'

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"It's really a story of a scandal of how a multinational can put its own economic interests above any other consideration and in this case beyond the consideration of human rights". ECCHR's Claire Tixeire and Anna Kiefer @asso-sherpa.bsky.social on @en.france24.com about the trial against Lafarge.

Behind the story: French cement firm Lafarge in the dock, accused of funding terrorism • FRANCE 24

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