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UN Agent Seeks Remedies for Forced Labor in Supply Chains
December 21, 2015
The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Urmila Bhoola has called on countries to ramp up remedies and corporate liability for alleged forced labor in company supply chains and has pushed businesses to "leverage [their] extensive capacity and resources" to end these practices.
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ISO Pushes Standards to Combat Climate Change
December 18, 2015
In an article released during the UN climate talks in Paris, the International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") highlighted over 570 standards it has produced for businesses on the environment and called for collaboration among standard-producing organizations to close gaps in climate-change standards.
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Experts Detail Reporting Obligations Under UK Slavery Act
December 18, 2015
A group of legal experts from Doughty Street International have published an article on the obligation of UK businesses to report on their efforts to rid their supply chains of forced labor under the country's new Modern Slavery Act and the possible civil and criminal sanctions against companies that fail to sufficiently comply.
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UN Official Stresses Taxation for Development
December 18, 2015
Echoing the calls of human-rights and environmental activists for greater mandated contributions from businesses to the realization of their rights and development goals, President of the UN Economic and Social Council Oh Joon called for international cooperation among governments to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance in order to fund development.
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Activist Calls for More Comprehensive BHR Reach
December 17, 2015
Amol Mehra of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable has called for the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") issues and others to "scale up" their education efforts in the UN system and with other international organizations regarding how international trade and other policies affect the BHR agenda.
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