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NGO Calls for Expansive Public Disclosure from AIIB
July 11, 2016
An article from Joshua Rosenzweig of Amnesty International asserts that the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank should set out a robust disclosure regime to inform the public of the impacts of the projects it finances on the global business and human rights agenda and how it seeks to address these impacts.
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Trade Union Group Pressures UN on Taxation
July 11, 2016
Public Services International, a trade union organization representing public service workers, has issued a press release calling for the UN and national governments to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance in order to ramp up the expansion of the public sector around the world.
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NGO Seeks Corporate Climate Tax, Liability
July 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Climate Justice Programme has published a report calling on governments to impose a tax on fossil fuel companies to fund efforts to counter global warming and to establish the right of citizens to hold these companies liable in courts for their contributions to climate change.
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US NCP Monitors Hotel Mediation Agreement
July 11, 2016
The US National Contact Point under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises has announced its monitoring of a mediation agreement between Starwood Hotels & Resorts and a federation of trade unions complaining about the right to collective bargaining at hotels in Maldives and Ethiopia.
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Conflict Minerals Amendment Faces NGO Criticism
July 11, 2016
Sasha Lezhnev and Holly Dranginis of the Enough Project criticize an amendment in US financial services appropriations legislation proposing the de-funding of a provision in the Dodd-Frank financial services reform act requiring companies to publicly report their use of "conflict minerals" from war-torn areas of Africa.
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