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Senator Cotton Urges Coca-Cola to Condemn China’s Human Rights Abuses
July 28, 2021
Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.), during a hearing of the Congressional Executive Commission on China, pressed Paul Lalli, global vice president of human rights at Coca-Cola on the company’s decision to act as a sponsor to the 2022 Beijing Olympics despite China’s human rights abuses against the Uyghurs.
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Google Takes Legal Action over Germany's Expanded Hate-Speech Law
July 28, 2021
Google is taking legal action under its parent company, The Alphabet, over an expanded version of Germany's hate-speech law that recently took effect, citing that the changes, which allow user data to be passed to law enforcement before it is clear any crime has been committed, violates the right to privacy of its users.
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RSF Calls for Regulation Against Spyware
July 28, 2021
Following the report of the The “Pegasus Project” investigation, showing that the Israeli spyware is systematically used for surveillance that violates fundamental human rights including again journalists, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for strict international regulation of spyware.
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UK Proposes New Climate-related Disclosure Rules for Standard Listed Companies
July 28, 2021
In 2020, the UK government began it’s mission towards mandatory climate-related disclosures, publishing a roadmap to align with the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and recently has taken it a step further with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) proposing to extend this regime to all issuers of standard listed equity shares.
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JD Supra Blog: Is Tax Transparency the New ESG Disclosure Demand?
July 21, 2021
Cooley LLP in the JD Supra Blog analyses an article published in Bloomberg reporting that tax transparency has become a growing “under-the-radar” element of ESG disclosure and explores the debate between investors on the subject.
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