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Businesses Offer Advice on Corporate Global-Warming Policies
January 06, 2016
Aman Singh, a vice president of communications and marketing firm Edelman, highlights how consultancies and similar firms are capitalizing on developments such as the recent UN climate deal by advising companies to implement often-complex and costly changes in their operations to make way for the "inevitability" of global warming and responsive measures.
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Paper Outlines US Corporate Lobbying on Human Rights
January 06, 2016
In a working paper, Professor Emilie Hafner-Burton and Heidi McNamara of the University of California, San Diego, highlight how US corporations are responding to increased pressure by global organizations and activists on the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda by feeding more funding into lobbying on human-rights legislation at the federal level.
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HRW Issues Guidelines for Construction Companies in Gulf
January 05, 2016
According to U.S. News and World Report, Human Rights Watch has issued guidelines for construction companies operating in Gulf Arab states to protect the human rights, including maximum working hours, overtime pay, and payment of recruiting fees, of migrant workers in the region.
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UN Working Group: Brazil Lags in BHR Implementation
January 05, 2016
At the conclusion of its recent visit to Brazil, the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") expressed concerns that Brazilian businesses generally were not aware of the UN's BHR agenda and that infrastructure projects were affecting the human rights of locals, calling in response for the government to proceed with plans to develop a BHR action plan.
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NGOs Issue Demands for World Bank Human-Rights Framework
January 05, 2016
A group of nongovernmental organizations operating in Nigeria has issued a series of demands for the World Bank Group to revise its Environmental and Social Framework to better implement activists' human-rights agendas, including through "grievance mechanisms" and human rights impact assessments often seen in UN reports on business and human rights.
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