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WEF Leads G20 Effort on Guidelines for Urban Technology
July 23, 2019
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced that it will lead the G20 Global Smart Cities Alliance, under which it will create “global governance guidelines” on how cities should use technology and what they should do with data they collect through the surveillance of public areas.
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NGO Seeks Trade Ban on Devices that Could Be Used for Torture
July 23, 2019
Amnesty International recently called on the UN General Assembly to vote to ban trade in “tools of torture,” among which it includes “heavy leg irons” and “neck cuffs,” as a first step toward an international ban on such equipment and strict regulations on trade in police equipment.
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UN, UAE Partner on Business Roundtable on Climate
July 19, 2019
The UN recently partnered with the government of the United Arab Emirates on a roundtable meeting with business, government, and activist organizations on how to achieve a “just transition” to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in compliance with the UN’s Paris climate accord.
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NGOs Seek EU Trade Pressure on Brazil over Rights
July 18, 2019
Highlighting how nongovernmental organizations are pushing governments to use their trade policies to enforce the global human rights agenda, a group of 340 NGOs have called on EU institutions to express disapproval of Brazil’s alleged rights violations by pulling out of a pact between European and South American trade blocs.
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Coalition Offers Benchmarks for Corporate SDG Contributions
July 17, 2019
A report from the World Benchmarking Alliance, a civil society and business coalition, offers seven “system transformations” as the basis for benchmarking thousands of companies in an effort to encourage businesses to help fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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