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NGOs Pressure Businesses on Development Goals
November 11, 2015
An article in The Guardian highlights how businesses are responding to pressure from nongovernmental organizations and the UN on implementing the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals by seeking to show that they are pursuing agendas on the environment and human rights.
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Finland Pushes BHR Agenda in Grocery Industry
November 06, 2015
The Finnish Government recently convened a set of roundtable meetings at which it developed a common statement with nongovernmental organizations and representatives of the Finnish grocery industry on how to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR") in relation to grocery supply chains.
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NGO Seeks More Bank Reporting, Grievance Mechanisms
November 06, 2015
Ryan Brightwell from the nongovernment organization BankTrack warns that banks are not doing enough to fulfill the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and calls for banks to implement measures to do so through "systematic reporting" of their lending decisions and by establishing "grievance mechanisms" for alleged human-rights violations.
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UN Working Group Seeks BHR Data from Businesses, States
November 05, 2015
In a report to the UN General Assembly, the UN Working Group on business and human rights ("BHR") issues highlighted the challenge of measuring corporate and state implementation of the BHR agenda and has called for more reporting from governments and businesses on how they are integrating the UN Guiding Principles on BHR in their policies.
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Academic Calls for Global Business Regulation on "Right to Water"
November 05, 2015
In a recently published book chapter, Markus Krajewski of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Law School argues that international standards and legal instruments regulating multinational businesses to protect the right to water is an "increasingly important" aspect of global economic governance.
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