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NGO Seeks Mandatory Corporate Due Diligence Under UNGPs
February 27, 2019
The activist organization Shift has issued a statement calling on governments to implement a “smart mix” of voluntary and mandatory measures to ensure companies are complying with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), including by requiring companies to carry out “human rights due diligence.”
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ILO Report: Digital Economy Is Undermining Labor Rights, Benefits
February 22, 2019
The International Labour Organization’s (ILO) World Employment and Social Outlook warns that new business models enabled by technology “threaten to undermine” labor rights by failing to provide formality and social protection to workers.
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UN Panel Seeks Global Body to Set Mining Standards
February 22, 2019
The UN Environment Programme’s International Resource Panel has called on governments to develop “Strategic Plans” and institutions to govern the impacts of the mining industry and to launch an International Minerals Agency to develop global standards on mining and advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Launches Hub on Biodiversity Impacts of Trade
February 22, 2019
The UN Environment Programme and a UK research fund recently launched a five-year project called the "Trade, Development and the Environment Hub" to research the impacts of international trade on biodiversity and make recommendations on how future trade deals can comply with the UN’s “sustainability” agenda.
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NGOs Push for Gender Reporting in Extractives Industry
February 22, 2019
The nongovernmental coalition Publish What You Pay has called on the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a transparency standard for governments and the oil, gas, and mining industry, to require more information on gender disparities in extractives reporting.
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