Key NGO Monitors
UN Hires PR Firm to Push ESG Agenda
ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY
May 16, 2012
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. To read more, click here.
HRW Calls on Obama Administration to Transfer Drone Strikes to Military
SOCIETY & CULTURE, SECURITY, HOMELAND SECURITY & TERRORISM
May 9, 2012
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. To read more, click here.
Project Promotes Mandatory Corporate Due Diligence on Human Rights
CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE
May 9, 2012
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. To read more, click here.
HRW Urges New World Bank President to Adopt Human Rights Agenda
ECONOMICS, FINANCE & TRADE, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
May 9, 2012
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. To read more, click here.
AI Says European Governments Must Do More to End Discrimination Against Muslims
HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
May 2, 2012
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. To read more, click here.
HRW Weighs in on Alabama Immigration Law
HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE, SOCIETY & CULTURE
April 18, 2012
Human Rights Watch is calling on Alabama officials to repeal the Alabama Taxpayer and Citizen Act, saying that the legislation, which concerns how police and courts engage illegal immigrants, leaves the state susceptible to violations of international human rights law. To read more, click here.
Danish NGO Hire to Advance Human Rights Principles in Private Sector
ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
April 18, 2012
Allan Lerberg Jorgensen, the new Director of the Human Rights & Business Department at the the Danish Institute for Human Rights, will be responsible for strengthening the work of the Institute towards private sector actors and helping to mainstream business sector issues into the Institute's human rights work with state actors, CSOs, and other National Human Rights Institutions around the world. To read more, click here.
Election Monitoring Body Launches Global Observer Principles
HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE, SOCIETY & CULTURE
April 11, 2012
At a UN-sponsored ceremony last week, the Global Network of Domestic Elections Monitors launched the Declaration of Global Principles for Nonpartisan Election Observation and Monitoring by Citizen Organizations, a set of standards that sets forth the basis and rational for citizen action to monitor and promote the integrity of elections. To read more, click here.
NGOs Demand that World Bank Group Implement Guiding Principles on Human Rights
ECONOMICS, FINANCE & TRADE, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
April 4, 2012
In a letter to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ("UNHCHR"), a group of international human rights NGOs urges the UNHCHR to require the World Bank Group to implement the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in its financing and development activities, including the use of human rights impact assessments. To read more, click here.
New Consulting Firm Joins Business of Promoting UN Principles on Human Rights
ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
April 4, 2012
The consulting firm Shift, chaired by Professor John Ruggie, provides governments and businesses guidance on putting the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, authored by Ruggie himself, into practice. To read more, click here.
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