Business & Human Rights

  • World Bank Proposes Social, Environmental Rules for Belt and Road

    June 26, 2019

    The World Bank Group has published a study warning that the success of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, a transcontinental infrastructure investment project, hinges on the adoption by participating countries of a range of policies that include environmental and labor standards.

  • NGO Criticizes Business Summit for Lack of Focus on Rights

    June 26, 2019

    Zenaida Machado of Human Rights Watch has criticized organizers of last week’s US-Africa Business Summit in Mozambique for failing to include discussions of business and human rights issues in the summit’s agenda.

  • NGO Paper Offers Policy Options for Encouraging Private Climate Finance

    June 26, 2019

    The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper suggesting “more effective and consistent regulation” pushing finance companies in Canada to invest in projects whose goal is a national transition to a low-carbon economy.

  • ILO Conference Results in Standard on Workplace Violence, Harassment

    June 26, 2019

    National participants in the recent centenary conference of the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted an international standard on combating violence and harassment in the workplace, defining “violence and harassment” as behaviors “that aim at, result in, or are likely to result in physical, psychological, sexual or economic harm.”

  • UN Series Focuses on National Action on SDGs

    June 26, 2019

    The UN Global Compact has announced a series of events seeking to push national governments to work with the private sector in achieving the comprehensive social and economic targets contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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