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UN Plans Promotion of SDG Action in Davos
January 16, 2019
The UN Global Compact illustrates how it, along with private sector, NGO, and international organization partners, will seek to influence discussions on business initiatives aimed at achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a “Sustainable Impact Hub” at the upcoming World Economic Forum in Davos.
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NGO Seeks Stronger BHR Reporting from Canadian Mining Companies
January 16, 2019
The nongovernmental organization Shift has produced a report pushing companies in the Canadian mining industry to broaden and strengthen their public reporting on implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR).
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UN Network Chief Seeks Embedding of SDGs in Business Models
January 16, 2019
The head of the UN’s Global Compact Network in Kenya, Judy Njino, argues that it is in companies’ self-interest to make the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) “a defining feature of contemporary business strategy and operations” and urges businesses to work in the interest of everyone impacted by their operations, including “the planet.”
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Activist Investors File Rights Resolutions at US Prison Operators
January 16, 2019
Reuters reports that activist investors including the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility have filed shareholder resolutions at two US private prison operators seeking, in one case, to link executive pay to detainee treatment and, in the other case, to require annual reporting on the implementation of a human rights policy.
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Marriott Faces Peruvian OECD Complaint over Hotel Construction
January 16, 2019
A group of Indigenous people in Peru has filed a complaint against Marriott with the Peruvian National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises alleging rights violations related to the hotel chain’s destruction of an Inca temple and unauthorized excavations surrounding a planned hotel site.
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