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ETI Publishes "Living Wage" Guidance for Supply Chains
June 07, 2016
The Ethical Trading Initiative, a network of companies, trade unions, and nongovernmental organizations, has published guidance for businesses on how to support a "living wage" in their supply chains in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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NGO Pushes Aggressive Tax Policy in Latin America
June 07, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Center for Economic and Social Rights recently hosted an event at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights during which UN representatives and others called on Latin American countries to pursue anti-tax avoidance policies for corporations and wealthy individuals to fund the realization of economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Article Links Fulfillment of Human Rights, SDGs
June 06, 2016
A blog post from Francis West of Unicef UK calls on businesses and governments to recognize that the key to fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030 is to ensure, as a starting point, broad implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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Oxfam Economist Letter Calls for G-7 Tax Haven Action
June 06, 2016
In the lead-up to a recent meeting in Japan of leaders from the "Group of 7" countries, nongovernmental organization Oxfam released a letter signed by 47 Japanese economists calling for G-7 representatives to counter businesses' use of "tax havens," which the letter asserts "are distorting the working of the global economy."
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GRI Creates Digital Reporting Platform
June 06, 2016
Seeking to provide an integrated system through which researchers can analyze the reporting of companies on their implementation of the UN's social and environmental goals, the Global Reporting Initiative has launched an initiative called the Digital Reporting Alliance that will form a platform for companies to file digital "sustainability" reports.