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UN Group: Hold Businesses Liable for Conduct Abroad
June 28, 2017
As part of their "authoritative" commentary on obligations under the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, UN human rights mandate holders have demanded the regulation of businesses across borders to prevent rights abuse and the restriction of tax avoidance to maximize funding for economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Activists Move from Climate to Social Issues on Palm Oil
June 23, 2017
Environmental reporting website Eco-business has published an article illustrating the success of activists at the recent Singapore Dialogue on Sustainable World Resources conference in expanding participants' focus on palm oil "sustainability" from mere environmental impacts to a broad array of "social" rights, including labor issues.
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NGO Calls for Expanded Access to Corporate Information
June 22, 2017
In the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre's latest Corporate Legal Accountability Bulletin, the think tank calls for worldwide adoption of national legislation that would force companies to share internal information with alleged victims of human rights abuses to help them provide a basis for lawsuits against these businesses.
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UK Committee Seeks Broad Liability for BHR Abuses
June 21, 2017
Barrister Katherine Tyler describes a recent report from the UK Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights that calls for a new British law creating a criminal offense for the failure by corporations to prevent violations of the business and human rights (BHR) agenda, including those committed by their subsidiaries and in other countries.
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Oxfam Criticizes US on Corporate Tax Policies
June 20, 2017
A press release from activist organization Oxfam illustrates efforts by the UN and nongovernmental organizations to pay for the realization of their "economic, social, and cultural rights" agenda by calling for US laws forcing corporations to pay their "fair share" of taxes and demanding broad financial disclosure rules for businesses.
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