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Investors Increase BHR Pressure on Indian Business
March 31, 2017
An article by researcher Aruna Chandrasekhar highlights how decisions by large pension funds such as Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global to withdraw their investments in companies based or operating in India due to alleged human rights and environmental impacts are increasing pressure on Indian industry to adopt the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda.
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Manual Outlines Respect for Rights in Extractive Security
March 30, 2017
The business organization IPIECA, nongovernmental organization ICRC, and international foundation DCAF have produced two documents guiding extractive companies operating in foreign countries on strategies toward respecting the global human rights agenda when engaging with government security sector representatives.
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Chevron Reports on Financial Threat of Global Warming
March 30, 2017
Bowing to global activist pressure toward the disclosure by oil and gas companies of global warming-related risks, energy giant Chevron has included in its most recent filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission a statement on the threats of climate litigation and regulation to the future profitability of its operations.
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Article: Curtail Corporate Access to Rights
March 30, 2017
In a recent article, Stephanie Khoury and David White of the University of Liverpool call for the inclusion of provisions in a future binding UN treaty on business and human rights banning corporations from seeking to enforce their monetary interests in transnational human rights courts, an ability the authors label an unfair "right to profit."
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NGO Seeks UK Law Ramping up Corporate Prosecutions
March 30, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Traidcraft has published an article calling for the British Parliament to introduce legislation permitting the government to prosecute corporations for violations of the global environmental and human rights agendas.
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