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  • Businesses, NGOs Launch Fashion Climate Charter

    January 10, 2019

    A group of businesses and nongovernmental organizations have launched a Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action, a set of 16 principles and targets to be monitored and defined by 6 working groups seeking to “address the climate impact of the fashion sector across its entire value chain” in line with the UN’s Paris climate accord.

  • NGO: FIFA Has Rights-Based Duty to Assist Detained Soccer Player

    January 08, 2019

    Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch argues that the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has a duty under its new global human rights policies to pressure Thai authorities to release a soccer player detained in the country for extradition to Bahrain.

  • NGOs Sue Germany over Global Climate Pledges

    January 04, 2019

    As part of a growing trend of nongovernmental organizations filing lawsuits to require governments and businesses to comply with global climate standards, NGOs have filed a suit against Germany claiming that the government’s failure to force businesses to reduce carbon emissions is violating its citizens’ constitutional rights.

  • Experts Seek Return to Original Meaning of UDHR

    December 18, 2018

    Elyssa Koren and Paul Coleman of religious freedom nonprofit ADF International call for a return to the “original understanding” of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its protection of a set of “core rights” while respecting the sovereign authority of countries to “fight out issues of moral concern” in their internal systems.

  • NGOs Pressure UN Rights Chief on Israeli Settlements Database

    December 18, 2018

    A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a letter calling on UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to follow through on plans to create an online database of businesses operating in Israeli settlements for the purpose of NGO-organized boycotts of and pressure on such companies.

  • NGOs Seek Resource Redistribution Through “Climate Justice Movement”

    December 14, 2018

    A press release from Greenpeace illustrates the expanding use by the so-called “Climate Justice Movement” to file lawsuits against corporations and governments around the world demanding policy changes to combat global warming and the redistribution of funds to redress alleged rights violations caused by a changing climate.

  • NGO: UN Climate Talks Involve “Life and Death Decisions”

    December 12, 2018

    The nongovernmental organization Oxfam recently published a preview of the ongoing UN climate talks in Poland referring to the “life and death decisions” to be made at the summit to prevent a “truly terrifying” “global humanitarian catastrophe” that will impoverish and kill people across the globe.

  • Oxfam Calls on Companies to Adapt Strategies to Achieve SDGs

    December 07, 2018

    The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published a discussion paper finding that, on the whole, 76 global companies the paper examines have not done enough to adapt their “sustainability” strategies to contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • Governments, Businesses Launch Land-Oriented Climate Initiative

    December 03, 2018

    Climate activist organization WWF has applauded the launch at a recent summit of several business- and government-oriented initiatives aimed at achieving the targets of the UN’s Paris climate deal, including a business, government, and nonprofit platform called the “30x30 Challenge” seeking to ramp up action on climate issues related to land use.

  • UN, NGO Coalition Launch Gender Innovation Principles

    November 30, 2018

    UN Women and the nonprofit and business alliance Global Innovation Coalition for Change recently launched the Gender Innovation Principles to provide a “benchmark” for businesses and other organizations on “how to include women and women’s needs throughout the innovation life cycle.”

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