ACAN was encouraged today to hear the news that the Dutch Parliament (only in Dutch; sorry!) has passed a motion requesting their government provide a plan to the parliament on how the Dutch Government intends to implement the newly endorsed UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights. Such leadership in the area of corporate accountability is [...]

ACAN will be attending the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable’s first annual coalition meeting in Washington DC on Sept 8 and 9.  We’ll be sharing the progress of ACAN so far with key international partners, such as the European Coalition on Corporate Justice, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, SOMO, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The [...]

Recently, the ACAN Secretariat has been bringing like-minded people and organisations from Australia’s vibrant corporate accountability community together to form ACAN Working Groups . Many of these members first became involved with ACAN at our launch and consultation back in June 17 2010, and many others have also come on board, after expressing interest to join [...]

Recently Mr Frank Di’Giorgio was appointed as Australia’s National Contact Point, as part of his role with the Australian Federal Treasury. The National Contact Point is charged with resolving disputes between people affected by Australian corporate operations and the companies involved – in line with the OCED’s Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises. In what ACAN hopes [...]

During the past few weeks, the ACAN secretariat have been reconnecting with Australia’s corporate accountability community. Many of these community members attended ACAN’s launch and consultation on June 17, and many others have expressed interest in being part of ACAN since they became aware of its existence. Our plan over the next month or so [...]