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ILO Seeks Regulation of "Non-Standard Employment"
November 22, 2016
The UN's International Labour Organization has issued a report calling on countries to address the rise of "non-standard employment" - including self-employment, temporary and part-time work, and subcontracting - in order to ensure employees are receiving universal "social protection" and can exercise their "right to organize and bargain collectively."
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Academic: Transform Bank Lending to Save Climate
November 22, 2016
Arguing that "our economic system is incompatible with life on this planet" due to the need for economic growth to pay down debts, Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics writes that an "exciting solution" to stopping climate change is to slow economic growth by requiring banks to back 100% of the loans they issue with hard currency.
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Commission Seeks Reforms in Medication Patents
November 22, 2016
The Lancet Commission on Essential Medicines, an organization supported in part by the UN's World Health Organization, has issued a report calling for more global spending to resolve "massive inequities and inefficiencies" in health care and reforms in the patenting of medicines to reduce pricing and increase access.
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NGOs Criticize Canadian OECD Contact Point
November 16, 2016
A group of nongovernmental organizations has criticized Canada's OECD National Contact Point for ineffectiveness in handling complaints against energy and mining companies and has called for the development of an office that can impose mandatory penalties on businesses for violations of global human rights and environmental standards.
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Governments Bend to OECD Tax Standards
November 16, 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has announced that, at its recent Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes, it completed its first round of reviews of countries' compliance with global standards on tax information exchange and received government commitments to address deviations from these guidelines.
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