Business & Human Rights

  • UNGA Adopts Global Governance on Debt Restructuring

    September 17, 2014

    The UN General Assembly ("UNGA") has adopted a resolution establishing an "international legal framework" that deals with government restructuring of sovereign debt and seeks to prevent "adverse human rights impacts" caused by financial companies attempting to collect this debt.

  • WEF Guide Seeks Investments in "Positive Social Impacts"

    September 17, 2014

    The World Economic Forum ("WEF") has published a guide promoting "impact investing," which calls on for-profit businesses to produce a "transformational positive social impact" in their operations.

  • UN Website Presses Businesses on Women's "Empowerment"

    September 17, 2014

    UN Women has launched a "business hub for gender equality" that uses company "success stories" in empowering women to push for companies around the world to go beyond legal requirements in promoting "gender-responsive" practices.

  • WEF Pushes Businesses to Fight Climate Change

    September 17, 2014

    At a meeting organized by the World Economic Forum ("WEF") in China, government participants called on businesses, in the absence of any new legally binding international climate agreements, to fight climate change and fulfill the goal of achieving "common prosperity."

  • UN Hosts "Sustainability" Meeting with Industry Associations

    September 17, 2014

    The UN Global Compact recently hosted a meeting with global industry and trade associations on spreading the internationally developed agenda on "corporate sustainability," calling on these groups to pressure their members to accept and implement these principles.

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