Press Release: UN Special Rapporteur on Slavery raises concerns about Canada’s current approach to business and human rights
PRESS RELEASE, For immediate release 6 September 2023 UN Special [...]
CORE ‘investigations’ into allegations of Canadian company links to Uyghur forced labour will likely yield few results
Today the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) announced new [...]
Canada should immediately empower the CORE, recent media reports show
Updated on 10 May 2023. Initially published on 11 April [...]
Press release: Five years after announcement of independent corporate human rights watchdog, Government continues to turn back on people harmed by Canadian businesses
Available as a PDF in English and French. For immediate [...]
Corporate Accountability and Election 2021 – Questions for federal parties and candidates
The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) is asking federal [...]
Can money replace powers? CORE gets budget boost but remains powerless
Today the federal government announced a budget increase for the [...]
UPDATED: Majority of international human rights parliamentary subcommittee calls for HRDD law and empowered CORE
Earlier this year, Canada’s international human rights parliamentary subcommittee launched [...]
Opinion: Without investigatory powers, feds’ watchdog on mining industry toothless
The government created a powerless position—an ombudsperson in name only. Without powers to order the production of documents and compel witness testimony under oath, CORE is an ineffective position similar to the other toothless mechanisms that came before it.
News Release: Government of Canada Caves to Industry Pressure, Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise Remains Powerless to Uphold Human Rights
Ottawa, February 26, 2021 – The Government of Canada has [...]
Government conceals and ignores expert advice on CORE, report leaked by civil society
In April 2019 then minister of international trade Jim Carr [...]