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February 6, 2024

Charity Ryerson

A New Global Minimum Tax on Corporations and ...

This year, states will begin implementing a global minimum tax rate of fifteen percent on multinational corporations with more than €750 million (about $810 million) in revenues. If these tax reforms succeed in increasing tax revenues across the approximately 140 implementing countries as they intend, these additional funds could be used to advance the social and economic rights of their citizens, especially for the most vulnerable populations, including those whose rights have been abused by corporations historically. However, the coming tax reforms are still so riddled with gray areas regarding form and function that it is too early to call the initiative a victory in corporate accountability.

November 23, 2023

Charity Ryerson

Un año desde la prohibición del azúcar del ...

Durante los 365 días desde que se bloqueó la entrada de su azúcar a los Estados Unidos por trabajo forzoso, el Central Romana ha optado por implementar sólo cambios superficiales para los cañeros y utilizar estrategias políticas en un aparente intento de hacer desaparecer la WRO.

November 23, 2023

Charity Ryerson

One year since Central Romana sugar banned from ...

Over the 365 days since its sugar was blocked from entering the United States, Central Romana has chosen to implement only superficial changes for workers while pulling political strings in an apparent effort to make the import ban disappear.

November 29, 2021

Avery Kelly

Enbridge and the Dangers of Extractive ...

Last month, The Guardian revealed that Canadian pipeline company Enbridge has paid Minnesota police more than two and a half million dollars for services including the surveillance and arrest of Water Protectors resisting the company’s construction of a new Line 3 pipeline. This post situates the Enbridge-police agreement in Minnesota and violent crackdown against Water Protectors at Line 3 within a disturbing global context rooted in colonialism.

April 20, 2020

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Avery Kelly

CAL & EarthRights Launch Updated Guide to ...

In 2019, CAL partnered with EarthRights International to update their Guide to the Foreign Legal Assistance statute. Given that the US is an increasingly difficult jurisdiction for transnational human rights cases against companies, this tool provides an opportunity for workers and community members to access key evidence located in the US even where they may not have been able to bring suit there.

Dean Pinkert

December 21, 2021

Export Controls and Human Rights

Dean Pinkert

December 21, 2021

Corporate Accountability Lab has been working on blocking imports into the United States of goods produced using forced labor, relying largely on Section 307 of the Tariff Act of 1930. This blog looks at possibilities for using controls on exports as a way of advancing human rights. The human rights issues here do not center on how goods were produced; they center on how goods are likely to be used. Recent statements joined by the United States emphasize the need to be proactive in ensuring that advanced technologies are not used for such purposes as state-sponsored, repressive cybersurveillance. The technologies at the heart of this effort include artificial intelligence and advanced surveillance technologies (e.g., facial recognition technologies).

Dean Pinkert

November 5, 2021

Introducing Our New Special Advisor Dean Pinkert

Dean Pinkert

November 5, 2021

CAL is excited to introduce our newest staff member, Dean Pinkert. In this introductory blog, Dean discusses his background and what led him late in his career to join CAL and focus on international human rights and environmental sustainability.

Dean is highly motivated to “give back” after having achieved his goals in private practice and in government. He takes this to mean embracing a wider agenda--leveraging the law to advance global human rights and environmental sustainability--as well as serving as a resource for CAL colleagues and allies.

Export Controls and Human Rights

Introducing Our New Special Advisor Dean Pinkert

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