Business & Human Rights

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • NGO Leader Links Corporate Tax with "Human Rights"

    March 30, 2017

    A recent opinion piece by Sorley McCaughey of Christian Aid Ireland illustrates the growing agenda of anti-poverty and human rights activists to treat corporate taxation as an essential tool for redistributing funds from multinational businesses toward their global economic, social, and cultural rights agenda.

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