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OECD, NGOs Push "Sustainability" Standards in India
October 31, 2016
Vaidehi Shah describes the efforts of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the nongovernmental organization Centre for Responsible Business to persuade Indian businesses to bind themselves to global standards on advancing the UN's business and human rights and "sustainability" agenda.
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UN Agent Calls for Global Governance of Taxation
October 28, 2016
UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called for the UN General Assembly to create a global body to fight tax avoidance by transnational corporations and to develop a "binding legal instrument" requiring companies to pay taxes where they generate profits to help fulfill the UN's expansive human rights agenda.
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Activists Object to Corporate Cooperation on BHR
October 28, 2016
An op-ed by author Sudeep Chakravarti criticizing the participation of multinational corporations in the upcoming UN Forum on Business and Human Rights (BHR) signals the growing discontent among activists with corporate cooperation and a move among NGOs toward BHR litigation and criminal liability approaches.
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UN Report Targets BHR Issues in Agriculture
October 28, 2016
The UN Working Group on business and human rights (BHR) issues has released a report examining the obligations the UN Guiding Principles on BHR place on "agro-industrial" businesses and governments to mitigate human rights impacts of agricultural operations on local communities.
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Article Seeks Rights Regime in Investment Treaties
October 28, 2016
Lorenzo Cotula of the International Institute for Environment and Development writes that governments should integrate global human rights standards in their negotiations over international investment treaties to protect local communities from "land grabbing" by multinational corporations.
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