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Law Firm Encourages Businesses to Track NAP Process
March 16, 2015
A briefing from Arent Fox LLP analyzes the U.S. process of developing a national action plan ("NAP") to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights and encourages businesses to step up their involvement in the NAP's formation.
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UNOHCHR Launches BHR Remedy Initiative
March 11, 2015
A new initiative of the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights ("UNOHCHR") will set out guidance and recommendations to countries regarding the implementation of civil and criminal investigations and sanctions for alleged violations of the international business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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UN Targets Small Agribusinesses with Sustainability Agenda
March 11, 2015
The UN Global Compact and the International Trade Centre have announced their cooperation in pushing small- and medium-sized companies in the agricultural industry to adopt the UN's international agenda on sustainable practices and the environment.
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EJOLT Creates Map of Corporate Environmental Impact
March 11, 2015
The Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade ("EJOLT") project has launched a Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, showing, among other things, a world map cataloging local "resistance" to corporations that are allegedly having impacts on the environment.
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UN Agent: Private Finance of Regimes Prolongs Rights Violations
March 11, 2015
The UN's Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has issued a report calling for the development of guidance for public and private institutions in financing governments that commit human rights violations, including violations of "economic, social, and cultural rights."
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