10 December marks the UN's Human Rights Day. To mark it, we
examine the new German legal requirement for organisations to take
human rights and environmental issues into account in the supply
chain, including by appointing a 'human rights officer'.
What does that role involve?
Human rights are on everyone's lips, and not just because of
the political discussions surrounding the World Cup in Qatar. In
recent weeks, there have been developments on the ESG Directive on
Corporate Sustainability Reporting (CSRD), the amendment to the
German Supply Chain Sourcing Obligations Act (LkSG) and then the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper ran a leader on the topic
of domestic violence (FAZ leading article from 25 November 2022
with the headline 'He who strikes must leave').
