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Assembly Report Finds Climate Risk to London Economy
July 29, 2015
A report from the London Assembly calls for efforts by Mayor Boris Johnson to deal with the threats of climate change to the London economy both from extreme weather events and from investments by London financial companies in what they see as unsustainable natural resource consumption.
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Bloomer: NGOs Must Push for Successful BHR Treaty
July 29, 2015
Phil Bloomer of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has published an account of the first session of the working group charged with developing a binding treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") calling for nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") to unite to advance the treaty effort.
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Ruggie Considers "Next Steps" in BHR Development
July 29, 2015
In a recent paper, Harvard University Professor John Ruggie, developer of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR"), suggests various future targets of the BHR agenda, including investor-state dispute mechanisms in international trade treaties and a binding treaty dealing with "gross" human rights violations.
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Paper Lists Arms Treaty Lessons for BHR Treaty Proponents
July 29, 2015
Marilyn Croser of the CORE Coalition writes that proponents of a binding treaty on business and human rights ("BHR") issues should follow the example of the UN Arms Trade Treaty, adopted in 2014, by pushing an "ambitious yet achievable" document that would be acceptable to countries that are home to a substantial number of transnational corporations.
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NGO Pushes Community-driven Corporate Reporting
July 29, 2015
A publication from the nongovernmental organization Oxfam America calls on companies to commit to performing human rights impact assessments ("HRIAs") to report on their implementation of global human rights standards and to hand over part of this process to communities that are allegedly affected by their operations.
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