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UN Working Group Forms Blog on BHR Remedies
November 20, 2017
In the run-up to its Business and Human Rights (BHR) Forum in Geneva at the end of November, the UN Working Group on BHR has launched a Forum blog series on the website of the BHR Journal to promote discussion among nongovernmental organizations and other contributors of how the UN body should bolster the right to remedy for BHR violations.
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NGO: Impose Liability on Greenhouse Gas Emitters
November 20, 2017
Saleemul Huq of the International Centre for Climate Change and Development writes that it is time to impose liability on companies for their contributions, through greenhouse gas emissions, to global warming to compensate the victims of disasters produced by the phenomenon.
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Guidelines Push for Rights Provisions in Security Contracts
November 20, 2017
The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the Swiss government have released guidance on how governments, businesses, and other actors contracting with private security providers should embed international human rights and humanitarian law in their agreements.
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UN Outlines Plans to Move Investments Toward SDGs
November 20, 2017
At a September event in New York, UN Secretary-General António Guterres outlined his UN reform strategy for encouraging the diversion of public and private investments around the world toward fulfilling the international organization's comprehensive social and environmental Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the year 2030.
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NGO Opposes "Voluntary" German BHR Policies
November 20, 2017
An article from Human Rights Watch on Germany's business and human rights (BHR) policies illustrates the growing opposition among activist groups to "voluntary" codes of BHR conduct for businesses in favor of a robust regulatory agenda that would require all businesses to perform BHR due diligence on their supply chains.
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