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How Canada’s Modern Slavery Law Compares to Global Regulations
Over the past decade, governments worldwide have introduced legislation aimed at tackling forced labour and child labour in supply chains. These laws recognize that companies—whether knowingly or unknowingly—may be sourcing products and materials linked to labour exploitation. Canada has now joined this international movement with its Fighting Against Forced
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Gender Equality in the Workplace – Free Online Assessment Tool Available
Gender equality and women’s empowerment doesn’t only concern women. It concerns society as a whole. When half of society doesn’t have the same opportunities as the other half – we’re clearly limiting our collective potential and we’re all worse off because of it. This is why achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls…
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New Online Tool: Assessing Your Anti-Bribery and Corruption Program – Where to Start?
Understanding where your organization stands in terms of its efforts to combat bribery and corruption has never been more important – especially for businesses with any sort of international operations (manufacturing, export, supply chain, sales, etc.). Legislation like the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), the UK Bribery Act and other national laws aligned to…
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InterPraxis Director delivers keynote lecture in Tokyo on building responsible supply chains.
As Tokyo prepares to host the 2020 Olympics and awareness of frameworks like the SDGs and other codes for international supply chains grow, many businesses are keenly interested in learning best practice in this area. InterPraxis was invited to deliver a workshop to share emerging best practice and demonstrate how Japanese businesses can develop and…
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Ensuring Responsible Supply Chains: InterPraxis helps Lululemon address the issue of Foreign Migrant Workers
Based on emerging best practice and input from key stakeholders, InterPraxis helped Lululemon develop its new foreign migrant labour standard as part of its Vendor Code of Conduct. The new standard will help Lululemon and its vendors address risks of exploitive labour practices among migrant workers and imposes a new framework on it suppliers for…
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InterPraxis Director selected by ISO Academy to deliver regional trainings on the new ISO 37001 standard.
When the ISO Academy was looking for expertise to help design and deliver training on its new Anti-Bribery Management System Standard it turned to InterPraxis Director David Simpson and Austian-based expert Barbara Neiger to deliver a series of international workshops in Eastern Europe (Serbia) and the Middle East (Lebanon) focusing on implementing effective anti-bribery management…
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InterPraxis, together with BNQ, helps to deliver the world’s first ASI audit certification.
The Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI) recently announced the world’s first certifications against its newly launched standards for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminium. ASI’s Certification of the Rio Tinto facilities located in Canada and Australia, signifies that the practices at these sites meet the industry’s highest standards. The independent third party audits were carried…
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InterPraxis leads harmonization project among MDB international accountability (complaint) mechanisms.
Independent accountability complaint mechanisms are critical in order to successfully carry out the missions of the internaional development banks such as the World Bank, IADB and the IFC. InterPraxis was selected by a consortium of these international development banks to explore the development of shared principles, common terminology, and laying the groundwork for a quality…
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InterPraxis Director accepts interim appointment to head EBRD’s Independent Accountability Mechanism
As interim head of the Project Complaint Mechanism with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Simpson helps to provide recourse to people who believe they have been or may be harmed by bank-supported projects. “In giving local communities greater voice, explains Simpson, “we reflect the principles of citizen-driven accountability and can help to strenghten…
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International Experts Group Meeting on UN Guiding Principles Facilitated by InterPraxis.
InterPraxis Director was invited by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and the Office of the Extractive Sector CSR
