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UNGC Builds Framework to Achieve "Sustainability"
July 14, 2016
An update from UN Global Compact Executive Director Lise Kingo following the recent UNGC Leaders Summit demonstrates the comprehensive commitment of the UN agency, from actions within its local networks to its newly launched program "Making Global Goals Local Business," to pressure companies to help fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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OECD Meeting Ramps up Global Tax Framework
July 14, 2016
A meeting of over 80 countries and jurisdictions organized by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Kyoto, Japan, has inaugurated the OECD's "inclusive" global tax framework to counter the ability of corporations to avoid taxation by shifting their revenue to low-tax jurisdictions.
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Lawyer Warns of Broad BHR Treaty Process
July 13, 2016
Sara McBrearty of King & Spalding writes that the disenchantment of activists with immediate implementation of the global business and human rights agenda under the UN Guiding Principles on BHR has led to the launch of an open-ended negotiation over the development of a binding BHR treaty that could result in a flawed instrument without precedent in international law.
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NGO Pressures Germany on Access to BHR Remedies
July 13, 2016
Arguing that Germany has a "poor legal framework" that fails to permit alleged overseas victims of human rights violations to sue German corporations, Philipp Wesche of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs calls on German officials to increase access to such remedies in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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Article Pushes Japanese Business on "Sustainability"
July 13, 2016
Ashleigh Owens of EY Japan Climate Change and Sustainability Services writes that Japanese businesses must form partnerships to follow a variety of global environmental and human rights standards and to ensure that their supply chains comply with the international "sustainable development" agenda in order to succeed in the future global economy.
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