On 7 October 2025, experts, trade unionists and activists from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Serbia, Mexico and Germany met in Berlin to discuss the future of corporate due diligence at the international conference ‘Due Diligence and Labour Rights – Quo Vadis?’. Organized by FEMNET e.V. together with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, the CorA network and the umbrella association of critical shareholders, the focus was on how the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) and the European CSDDD can actually contribute to improvements for workers along global supply chains.
Between Achievement and Attenuation
The participants agreed: Both the German Supply Chain Act (LkSG) and the European directive CSDDD remain important advances for which many activists and organisations have fought for years. Weiterlesen
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International conference on 7 October 2025 in Berlin
The conference brings together experts, policymakers, trade union representatives, and civil society actors from Germany, Europe, and the Global South to discuss the current state and future of human rights due diligence. Over the course of the day, we will explore the implementation and impact of Germany’s Supply Chain Act and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), highlight the crucial role of trade unions, and exchange perspectives on challenges and best practices along global supply chains.
The conference language is English. Unless otherwise stated in the agenda, interpretation into German will be provided throughout the conference.Weiterlesen
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My name is Dina Ndleleni. I am 63 years old. I am an activist from the Women on Farms Project and former farm worker who for 53 years lived and/or worked on commercial table grape farms in De Doorns in the Hexriver Valley in the Western Cape, South Africa.
In July 2022, while working onMooigezicht Estates, I was poisoned with Dormex (which contains cyanamide). This has affected all aspects of my life. My lungs were so damaged that I lost my job and income because I was unable to work. I suffer from irreversible, chronic respiratory complaints which result in me being hospitalized a couple of times per year when I struggle to breathe and need artificial oxygen. Weiterlesen
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Good afternoon, Members of the Board, dear shareholders.
I am Gomotsegang Brown Matloko, I am from Wonderkop community in Marikana. I am speaking to you directly from South Africa, on the effectiveness or better: the lack of effectiveness of BASF’s human rights and environmental due diligence measures within its supply chain.
BASF rightly emphasizes its commitment to sustainability and responsible sourcing. These commitments are laudable on paper. However, the true measure of commitment and responsibility lies not in policy documents, but in tangible outcomes on the ground. Concerning the sourcing of platinum from Sibanye-Stillwater in South Africa, we see a significant and persistent gap between stated intentions and reality. Weiterlesen
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Stakeholders sharply criticise BASF’s measures to implement human rights and environmental due diligence, especially in South Africa
Holding on to Harbour Energy implies co-responsibility for environmental and human rights violations in Argentina
Virtual format of the Annual General Meeting and disproportionate dividend proposal criticized
On the occasion of today’s Annual Shareholders’ Meeting of BASF, the Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany is calling on shareholders to refuse to approve key proposals of the management. In several countermotions, the association sharply criticises BASF’s unsustainable dividend policy, its implausible climate strategy and, above all, its inadequate response to human rights violations. Representatives of two communities that suffer directly from the consequences of BASF’s hunger for raw materials clearly illustrate these issues. Weiterlesen
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Item 3 on the agenda: Approval of the actions of the Executive Board for the 2024 financial year
The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that formal approval of the actions of the members of the Executive Board be denied.
Reason:
The Executive Board continues to fail to adequately fulfil its human rights and environmental due diligence obligations.
Export and commercialisation of pesticides that are harmful to health and banned in the EU
Alzchem is one of the companies that continues to export pesticides that are classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction and have therefore not been authorised in the EU for a long time. Weiterlesen
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The Association of Ethical Shareholders Germany proposes that the appropriation of profit proposed by the Board of Executive Directors and the Supervisory Board be rejected.
Rationale:
The dividend is too high. BASF must invest significantly more in its own sites in order to create prospects for the future – especially at the Ludwigshafen site – in order to consistently move away from dependence on climate-damaging energies and achieve its own climate targets. It simply doesn’t add up when the Board of Executive Directors talks about a crisis, announces ever-increasing savings programs and job cuts, but still wants to pay out over 2 billion euros in dividends and benefits from government subsidies. Weiterlesen
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Do you know the hot air you feel when you open your oven? That heat that feels like it will burn you instantly? Now, imagine being exposed to that feeling, not for just 10 seconds when you check on a cake, but for 24 hours straight. For 4 months. This is the reality of a summer in the Sahrawi refugee camps.
My name is Zeina, I’m 20 years old, and I was born in a refugee camp. Now, you might ask yourself, “Why was she born in a refugee camp?” and “Why has she continued to live in a place meant to be temporary, for two decades?” Weiterlesen
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