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Securities Commission Group Promotes ESG Reporting
February 21, 2019
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has applauded the International Organization of Securities Commissions for issuing a report promoting the disclosure by securities issuers of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts of financial assets to investors.
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CoE Committee Warns of Digital Threats to Democracy
February 21, 2019
The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers has adopted a declaration calling on CoE governments to construct legal safeguards against the use of advanced digital technologies to “manipulate social and political behaviours” and to promote “critical digital literacy skills” to blunt the impact of such technologies.
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EU Agency Calls for Rights Safeguards in Speech Removal Rules
February 21, 2019
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has released an opinion on an EU proposal for regulating the removal by internet companies of terrorist content in which the FRA calls for the inclusion of rights safeguards in the legislation including limiting the affected content and providing for judicial supervision of the removal process.
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NGO Encourages Sovereign Bond Investor Activism in EU
February 20, 2019
The International Federation for Human Rights has published a ranking of the human rights performance of EU member states to encourage sovereign bond investors to take this performance into account and to influence EU governments to improve their respect for a broad range of human rights.
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Article: UN Treaty Grants Indigenous Peoples Right to Reject Sea Mining
February 20, 2019
An article by Julian Aguon and Julie Hunter in the Stanford Environmental Law Journal asserts that authorities should rely on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea to grant the right to free, prior, and informed consent to indigenous peoples who could face impacts from deep sea mining projects in the international seabed.
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