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UN-Business Partnerships Rile Activists
July 02, 2019
Harris Gleckman of Benchmark Environment Consulting warns that the UN’s recently agreed partnership with the World Economic Forum to promote “sustainable development” is the latest example of the international organization’s inclusion of multinational companies in the global governance system at the expense of democratic processes.
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Facebook Audit Spotlights Alleged Rights Impacts
July 02, 2019
Facebook’s recent update on its civil rights audit, led by a former director of the American Civil Liberties Union, highlights the social-media giant’s broad acceptance that it must report on and address the alleged influence of content on its platform on the global human rights agenda, including through the promulgation of “hate speech.”
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NGO Pushes Businesses Deploying AI to Prevent Rights Violations
July 01, 2019
Dunstan Allison-Hope and Michaela Lee of the nongovernmental organization BSR write that the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) require companies deploying artificial intelligence (AI), and not just companies developing it, to address their BHR impacts relating to privacy and discrimination.
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Consultant: Lawyers Must Clearly Define BHR Obligations
June 26, 2019
Yousuf Aftab of human rights strategy firm Enodo Rights argues that, if judges are to objectively determine corporate liability for human rights violations, lawyers must do a better job of defining specific corporate obligations arising from the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR).
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World Bank Proposes Social, Environmental Rules for Belt and Road
June 26, 2019
The World Bank Group has published a study warning that the success of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a transcontinental infrastructure investment project, hinges on the adoption by participating countries of a range of policies that include environmental and labor standards.
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