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Oxfam Calls for Strong EU Tax Avoidance Action
June 03, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has called for European institutions to adopt tough new corporate tax avoidance policies that prevent countries like the Netherlands, which it identifies as a "top tax haven" in the EU, from providing generous tax incentives to companies.
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GRI Pressures Businesses on Array of SDG Promotion
June 03, 2016
At a plenary of the Global Reporting Initiative's Global Conference, speakers called on businesses and governments to support a vast array of initiatives to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the global business and human rights agenda.
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MEPs Seek Strict Business Taxation Rules
June 02, 2016
Members of the European Parliament's Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee have voted to approve new rules that would require compliance with OECD rules on the taxation of multinational corporate profits and would impose stricter limits on tax exemptions for revenues companies move into the EU.
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HRW Calls for Binding UN Treaty on Business Supply Chains
June 01, 2016
A Human Rights Watch report calls on countries at the 2016 International Labour Conference in Geneva to seek the development of a binding UN treaty requiring that businesses perform due diligence in investigating potential human rights issues in their global supply chains.
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NGOs Launch Government BHR Reporting Initiative
May 25, 2016
The Global Reporting Initiative and Danish Institute for Human Rights have launched an initiative that pushes governments to report their progress toward a national action plan on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and toward implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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