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Guardian Seeks Shift to "Socially Responsible" Investments
April 13, 2015
Neil Berkett of the Guardian Media Group ("GMG") details how GMG has recently sought to implement the UN's social and environmental agenda and is now planning to divest from fossil fuels in order to combat global warming.
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Oxfam Uses "Scorecard" to Pressure Companies over BHR
April 10, 2015
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published the latest version of its Behind the Brands "Company Scorecard," which seeks to shame companies that it says do not take sufficient action to meet the international business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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Oxfam Criticizes IFC's Lack of Focus on BHR
April 10, 2015
A report from the nongovernmental organization Oxfam criticizes the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), a part of the World Bank Group focused on private development, for not monitoring whether its funds are used in projects that do not measure up to the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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WEF Announces "Social Entrepreneurship" Program
April 09, 2015
The World Economic Forum ("WEF") has announced that the Schwab Foundation and the Harvard Kennedy School have launched an executive education course focused on how to tackle "systemic" social issues through their work in the business world.
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Activists Criticize Coca-Cola BHR Efforts as Insufficient
April 09, 2015
A group of activists and others at a recent World Bank conference criticized a Coca-Cola report denying so-called "land grabs" by its sugar suppliers in Guatemala as insufficient and sought an array of information on the right of the sugar suppliers to their land.