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NGO Criticizes Business Summit for Lack of Focus on Rights
June 26, 2019
Zenaida Machado of Human Rights Watch has criticized organizers of last week’s US-Africa Business Summit in Mozambique for failing to include discussions of business and human rights issues in the summit’s agenda.
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NGO Paper Offers Policy Options for Encouraging Private Climate Finance
June 26, 2019
The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper suggesting “more effective and consistent regulation” pushing finance companies in Canada to invest in projects whose goal is a national transition to a low-carbon economy.
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ILO Conference Results in Standard on Workplace Violence, Harassment
June 26, 2019
National participants in the recent centenary conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted an international standard on combating violence and harassment in the workplace, defining “violence and harassment” as behaviors “that aim at, result in, or are likely to result in physical, psychological, sexual or economic harm.”
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UN Series Focuses on National Action on SDGs
June 26, 2019
The UN Global Compact has announced a series of events seeking to push national governments to work with the private sector in achieving the comprehensive social and economic targets contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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ISO Committee Develops Standards for “Circular Economy”
June 26, 2019
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has formed a technical committee to develop an internationally agreed framework regarding how organizations should contribute to a “circular economy” in which all resources are reused or regenerated.
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