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NGO Blames Supermarkets for Global Labor Rights Abuse
July 12, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has launched a campaign pressuring major supermarket chains to end “brutal working conditions” and labor rights violations in their global supply chains and “to radically improve transparency around their food sourcing policies.”
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NGOs Seek to Embed Rights Standards in Machine Learning
July 11, 2018
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations has signed onto a “Toronto Declaration” that sets out human rights standards for machine-learning systems, particularly focused on requiring companies to ensure that such systems “respect the principles of equality and non-discrimination” and offer remedies to victims of alleged discrimination.
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GRI Receives Post on EU Sustainable Finance Group
July 11, 2018
The European Commission has appointed the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), an organization that pressures companies around the world to publicly disclose their handling of the social and environmental issues, to its Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance that will aim to align European investments with the goal of a “greener, more equitable economy.”
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Stock Exchange Federation Releases Sustainability Reporting Guide
July 11, 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has applauded the World Federation of Exchanges’ publication of revised sustainability guidance for its member stock exchanges, setting out 30 environmental, social, and governance metrics on the basis of which companies should publicly disclose their social and environmental impacts.
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Academic: AI May Become Tool for Gender Inequality
July 10, 2018
Professor Bettina Büchel of IMD Business School in Switzerland argues that companies must account for the risk that artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies may exacerbate gender inequality if they base employment and other decisions on "underlying biases" already prevalent in society.
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