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UN Official Seeks SDG-Compliant Financial Policies
May 10, 2018
At a recent meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Buenos Aires, the UN Development Programme's Administrator Achim Steiner called for greater alignment between international financial policies and the UN's comprehensive social and economic targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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World Bank Seeks "Green" Agriculture in East Asia
May 10, 2018
The World Bank has produced an infographic explaining how East Asian countries should make their agricultural sectors more environmentally friendly, indicating the development body's ongoing embrace of the global "sustainable development" agenda.
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Article: BHR Principles Must Guide AI Development
May 09, 2018
In a recent article, Sherif Elsayed-Ali of Amnesty International writes that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies must fit within the framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) in terms of preventing discrimination and requiring transparency and access to remedy.
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OECD Corporate Tax Treaty Comes Online
May 09, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has announced that its multilateral convention on preventing corporate avoidance of taxation through "base erosion and profit shifting" by modifying pre-existing bilateral tax treaties will enter into force in July after its ratification by Slovenia.
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Consultancy: UK Companies Fail on Labor Reporting
May 09, 2018
Consultancy Sancroft has published a report alleging that nearly half of the top 100 UK government contractors failed to meet legal requirements on their efforts to rid their "large and highly complex supply chains" of forced labor and calling on Britain to incentivize these companies to do more to end "modern slavery."
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