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NGO Guide Links SDGs to Human Rights
January 13, 2017
As part of human rights activists' and UN officials' efforts to suggest an enforcement mechanism to force businesses and governments to implement the UN's "sustainable development" agenda, the Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a guide to how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are anchored in a "legally-binding framework" of global human rights.
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GRI Examines Status of Human Rights Reporting
January 11, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative and two academic institutes have issued a report examining the progress of companies in the mining, energy, and financial sectors on fulfilling the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by publicly disclosing their human rights impacts.
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NGO Seeks BHR Assessment of EU-Myanmar Deal
January 05, 2017
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has published a letter to European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström criticizing the EU's report on the impacts of a pending trade deal with Myanmar and calling for the Commissioner to establish a "team of legal human rights experts" to perform a full human rights impact assessment on the deal.
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HRW: FIFA Must Heed UN Resolution on Settlements
January 05, 2017
Human Rights Watch has asserted that the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) must heed the recent UN Security Council resolution on Israeli settlements and deny its support to Israeli soccer teams based in settlements located in the West Bank.
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HRW Criticizes US Action Plan on BHR
January 05, 2017
Arguing that the plan "largely restates the status quo" and provides no new measures for implementing the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda, Human Rights Watch has criticized the recently released US National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct for failing to offer "legal teeth" to address BHR violations by American corporations.
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