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UN Debate Signals Tension over Medicine IP "Barriers"
March 27, 2017
A recent UN Human Rights Council discussion signaled the growing tension between proponents of a report from the UN Secretary General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines who wish to lower intellectual property (IP) barriers to increase access to medicine and US and EU officials who warn of the impacts of such policies on medical research and development.
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UN Agent: States Must Protect Global "Right to Strike"
March 27, 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, has concluded that the "right to strike" has become a binding part of customary international law and has called on governments to respect their "positive obligation to protect this right" as a way to reduce the concentration of power in industry.
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UN Agencies Plan Labor Standards for Climate Transition
March 27, 2017
The UN's International Labour Organization and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change have signed an agreement through which the agencies will issue global standards on how to ensure a "just transition" of the world's labor force as national governments implement the UN deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions agreed in Paris in 2015.
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Canadian Companies Dispute Benchmark Rankings
March 27, 2017
An article in the Financial Post describing responses from Canadian companies disputing their low rankings in a pilot project of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, including for not taking into account their responses to the Benchmark's request for information, highlights company concerns with the accountability of civil society assessments of their human rights impacts.
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FIFA Establishes BHR Advisory Panel
March 24, 2017
Under pressure from human rights activists who say it has done little to implement the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has established a panel comprising businesses, NGOs, UN officials, and others to advise the organization on BHR priorities ranging from labor standards to freedom of expression.
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