#HappeningNow : The welcome speech by the Executive Director of AFREWATCH marked the start of the second session of the EFC, welcoming all the delegations from the USA, Colombia, Senegal, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea Conakry and experts from the various provinces of the DRC and setting

📢📢📢 ACCA GENERAL ASSEMBLY Interested in #humanrights & #climatechange related issues? Please join our annual gathering organised in collaboration with Jamaa Resource 🗓️6-7 November 2024 📍Nairobi-Kenya 🔗bit.ly/3XlSgwn Hybrid format

Runde district, with increasing mining activities, faces environmental issues due to a proliferation of unregulated small-scale mining, gold rushes, chemical spills, and air pollution, harming human and livestock health. zela.org/mazvihwa-commu… 1/4

Session 2 of the day IOE The ACCA & UN Global Compact are holding an engaging dialogue between business and civil society Organisations to advance human rights on the sidelines of the Africa Business and Human Rights Forum #Bizhumanrights #corporateAccountability #Africa

Today Barry Mulimba handed in an open letter to Anglo American at its London HQ on behalf of the community of #Kabwe, Zambia, asking it to finally address decades of mass lead poisoning that most affects children. A range of civil society organisations & peers signed the letter⤵️

Anglo American LDNMiningNetwork.bsky.social RAID Corporate Justice Coalition Peter Hain Lord Jonny Oates Jenny Jones A range of civil society organisations & peers have signed the open letter: ACTSA ACTSA Scotland African Coalition for Corporate Accountability CAN Africa Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO) Child Rights International Network Christian Aid Client Earth⤵️

It is great to be back to The ACCA whose general assembly is addressed during the inaugural assembly in July 2016. This was an opportune occasion for bringing together two areas of work I am leading with African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights exctractives and climate change.

AFRILAW is participating in the The ACCA 2024 AGM on the Theme: "Human Rights Implication of Climate Change on Vulnerable Populations in Africa" holding from November 6-7, 2024 at Nairobi, Kenya. #advancing corporate accountability in Africa #ACCA 2024AGM

Our Anesu Dera is representing CALS at the The ACCA General Assembly in Nairobi Kenya this week. He is presenting on EU Due Diligence Legislation