Business & Human Rights

  • Environmental CEO’s Lobby UN to Embrace ‘Nature-Positive by 2030’ Goal

    March 15, 2022

    CEOs from 14 of the world’s largest environmental organizations have established a mission with the goal of having a new Global Biodiversity Framework to be agreed upon at this years COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China that calls for a global halt and reverse nature loss by 2030, aiming to reach full recovery by 2050.

  • Facebook Allows Posts Urging Violence against Russians

    March 14, 2022

    According to Reuters, Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers concerning the Ukraine invasion, changing their hate speech policy.

  • Bloomberg: ESG investors at crossroads after investing in Putin's Russia

    March 09, 2022

    Sustainable funds labeled ESG (Environment, Social, Governance interests), a movement that promotes itself as changing the world for the good, are finding themselves at crossroads holding Russia Bonds, as well as shares of companies like state-run Gazprom, ultimately helping invest in Putin’s government.

  • Apple Investors Defy Company and Vote for Civil-Rights Audits

    March 08, 2022

    During Apple’s annual shareholder meeting, shareholders approved outside proposals recommending audits of the company’s civil-rights impact and a public report on its use of concealment clauses in employment agreements.

  • Frederick: Tech Totalitarianism Threatens America

    February 25, 2022

    Former counterterrorism analyst for the Department of Defense, Kara Frederick, writing in The Federalist, warns of Big Tech increasing their control over Americans private lives including undermining First Amendment freedoms in silencing speech, suggesting that if this control continues to grow, America will soon find itself in a similar situation as Canada or China.

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