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EU Parliament Seeks Bank Information Disclosure
December 05, 2016
The European Parliament has passed a resolution calling for EU rules providing for the automatic exchange of bank account owner information by EU member states to prevent tax avoidance in the bloc.
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UN Fund Pushes Broad Corporate Participation in SDGs
December 02, 2016
The UN-backed Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Fund has released a report calling on the UN to engage in "educating" businesses on the importance of their participation in the organization's initiatives on "sustainable development" and pushing partnerships between development actors and companies to achieve the comprehensive SDG agenda.
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NGOs Use UN Summit to Pressure Companies on Climate
December 02, 2016
At the recent UN Conference on Climate Change in Marrakesh, Morocco (COP22), a group of nongovernmental organizations announced the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance as one of several initiatives aimed to pressure businesses to adopt and advance the UN's agenda on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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WTO Members Debate IP Effects on Medicine Access
December 02, 2016
At a meeting of the Council for Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), member governments of the World Trade Organization debated the implications of a report by the UN's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines regarding whether certain aspects of the transnational TRIPS agreement aligns with the global "right to health."
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WEF Experts Seek "Values" in Tech Products
December 01, 2016
At the first meeting of its elite Network of Global Future Councils in Dubai, hundreds of nongovernmental, business, government, and international organization representatives convened by the World Economic Forum discussed how technology companies must embed "values," such as health and education, in their products to avoid widening economic disparities.
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