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NGO Guides Small Italian Businesses on BHR Compliance
June 10, 2015
Highlighting the potential costs to small businesses of UN regulation in the form of its business and human rights ("BHR") compliance agenda, the nongovernmental organization Fondazione AVSI has published guidance for small- and medium-size Italian enterprises on how to implement the UN's BHR principles.
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Union Group Files OECD Complaint Against FIFA
June 10, 2015
A complaint from Building and Wood Workers International filed at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's ("OECD") national contact point in Switzerland alleges that the International Association of Federation Football ("FIFA") failed to perform due diligence on the use of migrant construction workers preparing for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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GRI Prioritizes Global Sustainability Agenda
June 10, 2015
The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has announced that it will center its strategy on working with national governments and corporations to push reporting by businesses on their implementation of the international sustainability agenda.
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Kelly: G-7 Advances Burdensome BHR Agenda
June 09, 2015
In a recent interview, President of Solidarity Center for Law and Justice Jim Kelly explains how the G-7 group of nations' support for the UN agenda on business and human rights ("BHR") could impose costly, UN-driven regulations on businesses and deter them from spurring economic growth in developing countries.
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NGO Group Issues Demands for Binding BHR Treaty
June 03, 2015
As a UN working group prepares to develop the content of a binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty, sought by activists to help finance the global economic and social rights agenda, a group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") has produced a statement with broad demands for such a binding treaty.
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