{"id":11303,"date":"2021-01-21T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/the-eu-has-a-historic-opportunity-to-uphold-human-rights\/"},"modified":"2021-01-21T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T16:48:59","slug":"the-eu-has-a-historic-opportunity-to-uphold-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/the-eu-has-a-historic-opportunity-to-uphold-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU Has a Historic Opportunity to Uphold Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ccb_single_video_player \" data-controls=\"1\" data-autohide=\"1\" data-fs=\"1\" data-theme=\"dark\" data-color=\"red\" data-iv_load_policy=\"3\" data-modestbranding=\"1\" data-rel=\"0\" data-showinfo=\"1\" data-autoplay=\"0\" data-disablekb=\"0\" data-nocookie=\"1\" data-aspect_ratio=\"16x9\" data-width=\"640\" data-video_position=\"above-content\" data-volume=\"100\" data-video_id=\"xSQLQyu7or8\" style=\"width:640px; height:360px; max-width:100%;\"><!-- player container --><\/div>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/01\/21\/eu-parliament-vote-critical-hold-companies-account\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/01\/21\/eu-parliament-vote-critical-hold-companies-account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Brussels, January 21, 2021) \u2013 The European Parliament should seize the chance to strengthen the accountability of companies operating in Europe by requiring them to respect human rights and the environment throughout their global supply chains, Human Rights Watch said today.<br \/>\nOn January 27, 2021  the European Parliament\u2019s legal affairs committee will vote on a proposal to request EU legislation to hold companies accountable, including  recommendations for its content. If the committee approves the proposal, it will go to the  European Parliament for a vote.  The Parliament\u2019s recommendations could help shape the corporate accountability law initiative announced by Didier Reynders, the European justice commissioner, in April 2020. <\/p>\n<p>To support our work, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/donate.hrw.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/donate.hrw.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.hrw.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe for more: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2OJePrw\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2OJePrw<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/the-eu-has-a-historic-opportunity-to-uphold-human-rights\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read more: https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2021\/01\/21\/eu-parliament-vote-critical-hold-companies-account (Brussels, January 21, 2021) \u2013 The European Parliament should seize the chance to strengthen the accountability of companies operating in Europe by requiring them to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11304,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions\/11304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}