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GRI Presses Companies on Gender Reporting
March 23, 2018
Marking International Women's Day, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) issued a press release calling on companies to include in reporting on their implementation of the "sustainability" agenda the ways in which they are addressing gender inequality and identifying gender parity in business as a major factor in achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals.
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NGO Offers up Data on Corporate Human Rights Impacts
March 23, 2018
Alex Guy of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC) has published an article encouraging nongovernmental organizations and others to use BHRRC's wide-ranging data on corporate human rights and environmental impacts to pressure companies to implement the global business and human rights agenda.
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ILO Pushes Finance Industry to Address Climate Impacts
March 23, 2018
Craig Churchill of the International Labour Organization (ILO) reviews the partnerships with the financial-services sector the ILO is undertaking to address the impacts of global warming on poor communities, including by providing insurance and considering social and environmental factors in financing projects through "impact investing."
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ILO Convenes Meeting on Governance of Work
March 22, 2018
The International Labour Organization (ILO) recently convened the second meeting of its Global Commission on the Future of Work to focus on a broad range of issues, including gender parity in employment and "universal social protection," on which global-governance proponents will focus their efforts in the years ahead.
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OECD Presses Brazil on Cross-Border Tax Standards
March 22, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Government of Brazil have launched a 15-month work program studying how Brazil should reform its tax policies to move toward international standards on the treatment of cross-border transactions.
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