Call for Additional, Coordinated International Sanctions
Dear High Representative / Vice-President Borrell, and Foreign Ministers of EU member states,
We write to urge the European Union and its member states to fully implement the targeted sanctions that were imposed against the leadership of Myanmar’s abusive military junta, and to urgently adopt additional sanctions against further military officials and military-owned companies.
Since the February 1, 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military has responded with increasing brutality to the nationwide protests calling for a restoration of democracy. Security forces have killed over 550 people, including at least 45 children as young as 5, and detained an estimated 2,700 activists, journalists, civil servants, and politicians. Hundreds have been forcibly disappeared, which could amount to crimes against humanity. Over the past weeks, the military has demonstrated a callous disregard for human life that has driven its strategy for decades
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MEPs seek to hold firms liable for supply-chain abuses
Deforestation. Only a third of EU companies carry out human rights or environmental due diligence checks in their supply chain (Photo: crustmania)
Brussels, 29. Jan, 07:01
MEPs on the legal affairs committee are calling on the European Commission to urgently propose a new law that holds companies accountable for human rights or environmental abuses that happen across their supply chains. Now is the right time to set the gold standard for doing business, said MEP Lara Wolters from the Socialists and Democrats.
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