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Foundation Pushes Mining Companies on Rights Impacts
May 23, 2018
The Responsible Mining Foundation has published its first index of global human rights and environmental impacts in the mining sector, finding the 30 companies it reviewed could improve practices particularly in the area of worker safety and labor rights.
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Study Calls for Taxation to Achieve UN Health Targets
May 23, 2018
IP Watch reports that a recent study published in The Lancet Journal pushes for increased taxes on sugary drinks, alcohol, and tobacco around the world to help combat non-communicable diseases and achieve health targets contained in the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals.
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NGO Seeks More Stringent US Data Restrictions
May 23, 2018
Sarah St. Vincent of Human Rights Watch asserts that the US Congress must pass legislation requiring social-media firms to provide increased protection for user data to prevent broadly defined "abuses" of such data by a wide variety of governmental and international actors.
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Colombian Court Requires Action on Rainforest, Climate
May 22, 2018
The Supreme Court of Justice of Colombia recently ruled that the country's government must take action to combat deforestation of the Amazon rainforest, citing the country's international commitments and asserting that the rainforest is an "entity subject of rights."
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Unions File OECD Complaint in Brazilian Dam Collapse
May 22, 2018
Global union federation IndustriALL has filed a complaint with the National Contact Points of Brazil, Australia, and the UK for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises claiming extractives companies BHP Billiton and Vale violated labor rights and failed to conduct due diligence to prevent and remedy the fatal collapse of a dam in Brazil in 2015.
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