Biz Human Rights Updates: 15 May – 28 May
In this week’s debrief, we unpack recent developments in Chile around the environmental impacts of mining and data centres. An environmental court has recently annulled a key permit for the…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 01 May – 14 May
This week’s debrief dissects the latest developments in litigation pieces across the business and human rights sphere. In the UK, BHP’s appeal to the liability judgement in the Mariana dam disaster…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 17 April – 30 April
In this week’s newsletter we look again at legislative developments as well as the array of cases being filed with relation to business and human rights and the environment. This includes a lawsuit against subsidiaries of…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 3 April – 16 April
This week’s newsletter covers a wave of important developments in the area of business and human rights and corporate accountability. In Switzerland, the Federal Council has published a draft mHREDD law which would…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 20 March — 2 April
In this week’s newsletter, we will highlight a landmark decision in Belgium, where a case against TotalEnergies over its contribution to climate change has been admitted to court. In…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 5 March – 19 March
In this week’s update, we are again highlighting legal proceedings that establish important precedents concerning human rights and environmental due diligence, as in France where a court has for the first time ruled against a company under the…
Beyond in Burkina Faso: supporting responsible entrepreneurship through incubation ecosystems
Beyond Human Rights Compliance is currently in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, as part of a project supported by Enabel, delivering coaching sessions on Business and Human…
Beyond in Côte d’Ivoire: strengthening SME support through human rights due diligence
Beyond Human Rights Compliance is currently in Côte d’Ivoire as part of a project supported by Enabel, delivering coaching sessions to CI-PME — the public…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 19 February — 4 March
In this week’s newsletter we look at the curtain call on the EU’s Omnibus I saga and it implications, at least for now. With the amendments approved, the scope of the CSDDD and CSRD have been radically…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 29 January – 18 February
In this week’s newsletter we highlight the continuous push at the EU-level for regulatory simplification which has become synonymous with watering down legislation on business and human…
Legal and Policy Debrief: 1-28 January
While the dust of the Omnibus changes settles in the EU, this week’s newsletter highlights changes at a national and multilateral level. As Germany moves to water down its Supply Chain Act, a…
Legal and Policy Debrief: December 3d – 19th
After months of legislative chaos, this week the European Parliament approved the heavily diluted Omnibus I package. As expected, the final text narrows the scope…
Legal and Policy Debrief: November 18th – December 3d
As the year draws to a close, EU sustainability and human rights due diligence regulations face renewed turbulence on multiple fronts. Last week, the EU…
Legal and Policy Debrief: November 5th – 18th
This week marked a turning point for European corporate accountability. In a dramatic shift, the European People’s Party (EPP) aligned with far-right groups and corporate…
Research project assessing living wages in Pakistan
Beyond is proud to have contributed to the development of ETI’s multi-country programme on living wages across Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. As part of this…
Beyond at Web Summit
In November 2025, Beyond was in Lisbon for the Web Summit, a gathering of innovators, leaders, and changemakers shaping the future of tech and society.…
Beyond sits down with Dentons for Sanctions+ podcast
Lara Strangways, Co-Director at Beyond was delighted to sit down with hosts Shahrzad Noorbaloochi and Milana Karayanidi in this episode of Sanctions+ to unpack the…
Conversation on Human Rights and Environment Protection in Foreign Investment
A big thanks to the Council of Europe for inviting us to Armenia this week to contribute to the conversation on Human Rights and Environment…
Reflections from the Better Cotton Conference 2025
This week, Pallavi Sharma, Beyond's Agriculture, Food and Biodiversity Lead, got back from two days at the Better Cotton Conference in Izmir. Here are her…
Panellist at the 1st ESG Congress
This week, Beyond participated in the 1st ESG Congress organised by Paulo Câmara, Ana Filipa Morais Antunes and Ana Perestrelo de Oliveira from The Governance…
Navigating Legal Uncertainties amidst the Omnibus proposal and Implementation Challenges
Beyond contributed to the workshop for policymakers on transposing CSDDD, “Navigating Legal Uncertainties amidst the Omnibus proposal and Implementation Challenges”, organised by the NOVA Centre…