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Corporate Impunity

Focus on: Can the proposed European directive on environmental crime increase prosecutions and sanctions for multinationals?

In December 2021, the European Commission published a proposal to revise the Directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. While negotiations…

Analysis and recommendations

Corporate Impunity

Focus on: Environmental issues under the proposed European Directive on the Duty of Vigilance

October 2022 – Last February, the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive on “corporate sustainability due diligence”. Now that the Council is…

Analysis and recommendations

Corporate Impunity

Focus on: Can the proposed European Directive on the Duty of Vigilance close the corporate accountability gap?

6 September 2022 – Last February, the European Commission published a proposal for a directive on “corporate sustainability due diligence”. Now that the Council…

Investigation and report

Civic Space

Report: Shutting Out Criticism: How SLAPPs Threaten European Democracy

16 March 2022 – Ahead of the European Commission’s proposal of EU-wide measures to stop abusive litigation, a new report by the Coalition Against…

Handbook of proposals

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Handbook of proposals to regulate multinationals

Looking back at the progress made over the last decade and drawing lessons for the future, Sherpa has updated its Handbook of proposals to…

Investigation and report

Corporate Impunity

Third edition of the Duty of Vigilance Radar: McDonald’s, Lactalis, Bigard, Adrexo, Leroy Merlin, Generali, Altrad, Euro Disney … 44 companies still breaking the law?

CCFD-Terre Solidaire and Sherpa publish today the third edition of the “Duty of Vigilance Radar”. According to the research conducted by the two organisations,…

Analysis and recommendations

Corporate Impunity

Creating a Public Authority to Enforce the Duty of Vigilance Law: A Step Backward?

Sherpa publishes an analysis and recommendations with respect to the potential creation of an authority in charge of enforcing the French Duty of Vigilance…

Analysis and recommendations

Illicit Financial Flows

Sherpa Position Paper on the draft law “programming on solidarity development and the fight against global inequalities

Restitution of assets resulting from corruption to affected countries For the past 15 years, Sherpa points out the importance of adopting a law on…

Analysis and recommendations

Corporate Impunity

Strengthening Corporate Accountability: Toward an Ambitious European Legislation on the Duty of Vigilance

January 26, 2021 – Adopted in 2017 after a long advocacy, the French law on the duty of vigilance is a world first in…

Legal doctrine

Corporate Impunity

Towards EU Legislation on Corporate Accountability: the Need to Address Environmental Harms

Lucie Chatelain from Sherpa and Paul Mougeolle from Notre Affaire à Tous wrote an article, “Towards EU Legislation on Corporate Accountability: the Need to…

Investigation and report

Corporate Impunity

“Mining with meaning”: the content of vigilance plans is still insufficient according to a new study published by Sherpa

Paris, October 29, 2020 – In a study on vigilance in the supply chains of minerals used in the energy transition, Sherpa highlights the…

Legal doctrine

Corporate Impunity

Blog Post – Key legal obstacles around jurisdiction for victims seeking justice remain in the Revised Draft treaty

Sandra Cossart and Lucie Chatelain wrote a blog post on the Revised Draft treaty, “Key legal obstacles around jurisdiction for victims seeking justice remain…

Investigation and report

Corporate Impunity

Companies subject to the duty of vigilance under the radar of NGOs

Paris, 27 June 2019 – Two years after the adoption of the French law on the duty of vigilance, Sherpa and the CCFD-Terre Solidaire…

Q&A

Corporate Impunity

Law on the duty of vigilance: Frequently Asked Questions

France is the very first country with a mandatory regulation for companies, establishing legal obligations to ensure respect of human rights and environments throughout…

Analysis and recommendations

Corporate Impunity

Vigilance Plans Reference Guidance: a legal analysis on the duty of vigilance pioneering law

VIGILANCE PLANS REFERENCE GUIDANCE: legal analysis on the pioneering duty of vigilance law Two years after the adoption in France of the law…

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Focus on: Can the proposed European directive on environmental crime increase prosecutions and sanctions for multinationals?

Focus on: Environmental issues under the proposed European Directive on the Duty of Vigilance

Focus on: Can the proposed European Directive on the Duty of Vigilance close the corporate accountability gap?

Report: Shutting Out Criticism: How SLAPPs Threaten European Democracy

Handbook of proposals to regulate multinationals

Third edition of the Duty of Vigilance Radar: McDonald’s, Lactalis, Bigard, Adrexo, Leroy Merlin, Generali, Altrad, Euro Disney … 44 companies still breaking the law?

Creating a Public Authority to Enforce the Duty of Vigilance Law: A Step Backward?

Sherpa Position Paper on the draft law “programming on solidarity development and the fight against global inequalities

Strengthening Corporate Accountability: Toward an Ambitious European Legislation on the Duty of Vigilance

Towards EU Legislation on Corporate Accountability: the Need to Address Environmental Harms

“Mining with meaning”: the content of vigilance plans is still insufficient according to a new study published by Sherpa

Blog Post – Key legal obstacles around jurisdiction for victims seeking justice remain in the Revised Draft treaty

Companies subject to the duty of vigilance under the radar of NGOs

Law on the duty of vigilance: Frequently Asked Questions

Vigilance Plans Reference Guidance: a legal analysis on the duty of vigilance pioneering law

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