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ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY  The Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative (PRI), a non-profit formed in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and the UN Global Compact, has hired Lansons Communications to spread its message that the investment community should incorporate environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) issues into their decision-making.
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ECONOMICS, FINANCE & TRADE, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  Jessica Evans, from Human Rights Watch, has called on the World Bank's new president, Jim Yong Kim, to adopt a funding agenda for the organization that considers socio-economic rights such as the rights to food, water, affordable housing, and the right to health
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CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  Several civil society organizations have launched the Human Rights Due Diligence Project, the objective of which is to answer the question of how countries can, through law and regulation, require or encourage human rights due diligence by businesses.
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SOCIETY & CULTURE, SECURITY, HOMELAND SECURITY & TERRORISM  With disputes over whether the Central Intelligence Agency is bound by the laws of war, Human Rights Watch is calling on the Obama administration to immediately transfer command of all aerial drone strikes to the armed forces.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  Amnesty International is calling on European governments to do more to challenge the negative stereotypes and prejudices against Muslims allegedly fueling discrimination in education and employment.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  Last week, the United Nations Commission on Population and Development adopted a resolution that calls on Member States to ensure access to contraceptives and guarantee that the freedom of adolescents to decide about their sexuality, including their sexual and reproductive health.
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ECONOMICS, FINANCE & TRADE, SECURITY, DIPLOMACY A group of United Nations independent experts, led by Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Magdalena Sepulveda, have called on the European Union to take the lead in promoting the adoption of a global financial transaction tax that would offset the costs of the current economic crisis and protect basic human rights.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE, SOCIETY & CULTURE  Amid a wave of hunger strikes by Palestinian prisoners in Israel, UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk is encouraging the international community to insist that Israel comply with international human rights laws and norms in its treatment of the prisoners.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination has ruled that Denmark failed to investigate the racist nature of a 2004 attack on an Iraqi family and called on the country, the court system of which dismissed the case, to review its policy and procedures on the prosecution of alleged racial discrimination or racially-motivated violence.
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ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY  To "create a world free from fear and from want," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has called on countries to adopt sustainable development policies that give "due regard for equity and related environmental, social and human rights considerations."
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE, DIPLOMACY  The United Nations Working Group on Human Rights and Transnational Corporation and Other Business Enterprises reveals in its first report that it will pursue three work streams for promoting the UN's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, including global dissemination, encouraging implementation, and embedding in global governance frameworks.
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