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US Agency: Amazon Cannot Omit Gender Pay Proposal
April 05, 2016
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected a request from technology company Amazon to exclude from its shareholder ballot a proposal from an activist investor, which has submitted the same proposal to eight other technology companies, calling on Amazon to report any difference between men's and women's pay and how it plans to resolve any disparity.
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NGOs Condemn Mining Company Complaint Against Colombia
April 05, 2016
The Center for International Environmental Law and other nongovernmental organizations have called for the World Bank's International Finance Corporation to withdraw funds from mining company Eco Oro Minerals after it sought to take the Colombian government to arbitration over the government's measures prohibiting mining activities on certain wetlands.
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NGOs Produce Training Manual for BHR Activists
April 04, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations Oxfam and the International Federation for Human Rights ("FIDH") have released a training manual to teach human rights activists and communities affected by business and human rights ("BHR") issues how best to pressure companies and governments engaging in investment projects to respond to their human rights complaints.
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Oxfam Scrutinizes French Banks' Use of "Tax Havens"
April 04, 2016
Using data generated under a new French law requiring banks to publicize their finances on a country-by-country basis, the nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published a report on the use by French banks of subsidiaries in so-called "tax havens," or jurisdictions that permit corporations to store money at advantageous tax rates, to increase their profits.
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NGOs Release Corporate Climate Reporting Guidance
April 04, 2016
In line with the outcome of the UN climate negotiations in Paris and the Financial Stability Board's creation of a Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure, the Global Reporting Initiative and climate reporting organization CDP have published new guidance for companies on how to report their implementation of the global agenda on climate change.
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