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Consultant Shares Best Practices on Trafficking Prevention

August 17, 2017

An article by Richard Welford of the nongovernmental organization CSR Asia contains best practices, including through "human rights risks assessments" and reporting policies, for companies to pursue to rid their global supply chains of forced labor.
NGO Releases Global Guide on Treatment of Migrant Workers

August 17, 2017

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has released a global guide providing best practices on corporate treatment of migrant workers in line with the global human rights agenda.
NGO: Fulfill Abortion "Rights" Under SDG Framework

August 17, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Amnesty International delivered an oral statement to the UN Human Rights Council in June calling on the body to push governments to contribute to the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by recognizing women's "sexual and reproductive health" rights, which it interprets to include the right to an abortion.
NGO Warns of Risks in "Externalizing" Migration Policies

August 17, 2017

Amnesty International has published a briefing paper asserting that governments that "externalize" their migration policies, in partnership with other countries, risk violating a variety of global rights obligations and tend "to exacerbate the current unfair distribution of responsibility for protecting refugees between developed and developing countries."
NGO: FIFA Must Pressure Russian Officials on Rights

August 14, 2017

Denis Krivosheev of Amnesty International has published an op-ed asserting that the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has a responsibility to "don the referee's jersey" in response to Russian crackdowns on public protests at its 2018 World Cup and pressure government authorities to respect freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
FIFA Clashes with NGO Report on Labor Rights

August 14, 2017

Touting its recent commitments to "human and labour rights" and a "pioneer" monitoring system established to detect worker abuse at construction sites, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has clashed with an assessment from Human Rights Watch that labor conditions are deteriorating at its 2018 World Cup construction sites in Russia.
NGO: US Climate Deal Withdrawal Violates Rights

August 10, 2017

In the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the UN's 2015 Paris climate deal, Amnesty International published a press release asserting that the President's planned withdrawal would precipiate a "human rights catastrophe of epic proportions," violating global "rights to life, to health, food, water and housing."
WWF: G7 Should Exceed Paris Climate Commitments

August 09, 2017

Manuel Pulgar-Vidal of the environmental activist organization WWF has called on Group of 7 countries (G7) to treat the agreed targets of the UN's 2015 Paris climate agreement as a baseline for ambitious, "immediate" action toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up "climate finance" for poor countries.
Paper Seeks Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change

August 07, 2017

A recent paper from the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls for the global, "integrated policy package" toward combating climate change, achieving "sustainable development," and pushing investments toward "climate finance" opportunities to achieve the ambitious goals of the 2015 UN Paris agreement on global warming.
NGO Urges Liberalization of Abortion Policies

July 27, 2017

The nongovernmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch has called on national governments to follow the guidance of UN agencies in favor of policies that respect “sexual and reproductive rights” by allowing broad access to abortion.