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NGO Calls for U.S. NAP to Address Domestic Issues
April 22, 2015
As the U.S. develops its National Action Plan ("NAP") for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR"), the BHR Resource Centre argues that focusing the NAP on corporate conduct abroad is insufficient and that the U.S. should extend the NAP to domestic BHR issues.
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BP Shareholders Pass Climate Transparency Resolution
April 21, 2015
As global campaigners seek to use activist shareholder resolutions to bind companies to the UN climate agenda, The Guardian reports that 98% of British Petroleum ("BP") shareholders have adopted a resolution requiring the company to publish more information regarding its efforts to counter global warming.
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UN Puts Pressure on Businesses over "Climate Finance"
April 20, 2015
At a recent Washington, D.C. meeting on finance and climate change, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on businesses and governments to step up their support for the UN Green Climate Fund, which redistributes money to developing countries to support their efforts to combat and adapt to global warming.
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Ericsson Adopts NGO Human Rights Reporting Framework
April 15, 2015
A "Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Report" from communications company Ericsson claims to be the first such report in its sector to follow the UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework, created by the nongovernmental organization ("NGO") Shift and Mazars to push corporate human rights reporting.
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NGOs Blame Businesses for Neglect of Youth Rights in Africa
April 15, 2015
The nongovernmental organizations Amnesty International and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa have launched an initiative, labeled #AfricaNot4Sale, designed to demand "corporate accountability" for the nonrealization of so-called "economic, social, and cultural" human rights of young people in Africa.
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