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NGO Pushes Businesses Deploying AI to Prevent Rights Violations
July 01, 2019
Dunstan Allison-Hope and Michaela Lee of the nongovernmental organization BSR write that the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) require companies deploying artificial intelligence (AI), and not just companies developing it, to address their BHR impacts relating to privacy and discrimination.
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Consultant: Lawyers Must Clearly Define BHR Obligations
June 26, 2019
Yousuf Aftab of human rights strategy firm Enodo Rights argues that, if judges are to objectively determine corporate liability for human rights violations, lawyers must do a better job of defining specific corporate obligations arising from the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR).
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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.
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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.
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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.