Business & Human Rights

NGO Challenges NCP Decision on Asylum Center

November 29, 2017

The nongovernmental organization OECD Watch has filed the first-ever appeal of a decision of a National Contact Point (NCP) for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises to the OECD’s Investment Committee to challenge the Australian NCP's rejection of a complaint against a security company that operated an Australian asylum center.
NGOs Call for Increased Remedy Access in BHR Treaty

November 29, 2017

A group of nongovernmental organizations recently published a letter to the Ecuadorian chair of a UN working group charged with negotiating the development of a binding UN treaty on business and human rights (BHR) pushing for the inclusion in the treaty of, among other things, an effective international oversight body and expanded access to courts for BHR violations.
Global Hotel Group Embraces SDG Agenda

November 29, 2017

The International Tourism Partnership, a global organization representing the hotel industry, has adopted four sets of goals that it will advocate among its member companies as reference points to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the areas of youth employment, carbon emissions, water, and human rights.
Toolkit Pushes for Business SDG Implementation

November 28, 2017

The website Eco-Business reports that, as part of its annual business "toolkit" on corporate social and environmental policies, advisory firm Earth Security Group asserts that businesses will face negative economic consequences if they fail to embed the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their operations around the world.
Jurists Body Supports Global Regulation of Security Companies

November 28, 2017

In a statement at the UN Human Rights Council, the International Commission of Jurists supported UN efforts to establish "an international regulatory framework" to prevent human rights violations by private military and security companies.