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Article: Curtail Corporate Access to Rights
March 30, 2017
In a recent article, Stephanie Khoury and David White of the University of Liverpool call for the inclusion of provisions in a future binding UN treaty on business and human rights banning corporations from seeking to enforce their monetary interests in transnational human rights courts, an ability the authors label an unfair "right to profit."
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NGO Seeks UK Law Ramping up Corporate Prosecutions
March 30, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Traidcraft has published an article calling for the British Parliament to introduce legislation permitting the government to prosecute corporations for violations of the global environmental and human rights agendas.
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NGO Leader Links Corporate Tax with "Human Rights"
March 30, 2017
A recent opinion piece by Sorley McCaughey of Christian Aid Ireland illustrates the growing agenda of anti-poverty and human rights activists to treat corporate taxation as an essential tool for redistributing funds from multinational businesses toward their global economic, social, and cultural rights agenda.
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NGO Praises Progress of Binding BHR Treaty
March 30, 2017
The coalition Friends of the Earth International has outlined the presentation of a report from the intergovernmental working group tasked with developing a binding UN business and human rights (BHR) treaty and has praised the progress of the BHR treaty effort, which it predicts will culminate in an instrument requiring global protection of "human rights defenders."
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FIFA Human Rights Board Holds First Meeting
March 30, 2017
After its first meeting in Switzerland, the International Federation of Association Football's (FIFA) Human Rights Advisory Board, made up of representatives from the UN, unions, nongovernmental organizations, and businesses, issued a statement indicating how it plans to place pressure on FIFA to fulfill the global business and human rights agenda.
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