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UN Rights Office Delays Settlements Database
February 23, 2017
Reuters reports that the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has deferred the release of a report on creating a database, labeled by critics as a "blacklist," of companies with ties to Israeli settlements on so-called "occupied" Palestinian land.
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NGOs Seek Business Acceptance of SDG Standards
February 23, 2017
The nongovernmental organizations WWF and ISEAL have published a report calling for businesses to use "multi-stakeholder standards" to manage their social and environmental impacts and contribute to the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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BHR Advocate Outlines Agenda Under Trump
February 23, 2017
Anthony Ewing of Logos Consulting Group sets out a comprehensive agenda for corporations to manage their business and human rights (BHR) impacts under the Trump Administration and to resist and challenge alleged BHR violations by Administration officials.
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Ruggie Calls for "Socially Sustainable" Supply Chains
February 22, 2017
At the recent G20 group of countries' meeting in Hamburg, Harvard Professor John Ruggie called on attendees to use his UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) as a "roadmap" toward building "socially sustainable" global supply chains and advancing the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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Pension Funds Face Pressure on Israeli Investments
February 21, 2017
Media and research center Danwatch reports that, despite the opposition of the global business and human rights movement toward corporate ties to Israeli settlements, the five largest pension funds in Europe have €7.5 billion invested in companies with operations "in and around illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories."
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