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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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Academic: AI Requires Global-Governance Response
July 17, 2019
Javier Busquets of ESADE Business and Law School writes that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the associated struggle for control of its applications between governments and digital corporations must be resolved through new forms of global governance.
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Canadian, UK Courts Adopt New Theories on Foreign Suits
July 17, 2019
The Financial Post reports that courts in Canada and the UK are increasingly warming to legal theories permitting them to hold parent companies liable for the alleged human rights violations of their foreign subsidiaries, given a certain level of involvement by the parent in the affairs of the subsidiary.
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Shareholders Turn to Disclosure Rules to Force Climate Action
July 17, 2019
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre’s most recent bulletin on corporate legal accountability focuses on the growing, global movement among shareholders to file lawsuits accusing companies of providing false or misleading information about the threats climate change poses to their operations.
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