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NGOs Pressure Governments on Rights in Procurement
July 20, 2016
The International Corporate Accountability Roundtable and other organizations have published a survey of public procurement practices in 20 jurisdictions discussing to what extent governments have effectively implemented the UN's business and human rights agenda in all of their public procurement decisions.
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NGOs Call for Full Participation in Development Projects
July 20, 2016
A group of nongovernmental organizations has signed a petition calling on international finance institutions to ensure their right to participation in decisions on financing development initiatives and the inclusion of "economic, social and cultural rights in all their activities."
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NGO Urges "Sustainability" in G-20 Development Efforts
July 20, 2016
The Institute for Human Rights and Business has published a report calling on the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to align its advice to the G-20 group of countries on funding development projects around the world with the UN's comprehensive, socially and environmentally focused Sustainable Development Goals.
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Harvard Journal Reviews Remedies for "Corporate Atrocities"
July 20, 2016
The Harvard International Law Journal has published a symposium reviewing proposals on worldwide jurisdiction for "corporate atrocity crimes" that includes a broad variety of articles considering how to establish remedies for violations of the global business and human rights agenda.
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Shareholders Ramp up Suits over Environmental Risks
July 20, 2016
Madison Condon of Colombia University writes on a set of recent lawsuits in the US demonstrating that corporate shareholders are increasingly turning to the courts in cases of environmental disasters to claim that corporations did not properly inform them of the risks to the environment involved in their operations.
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