Business & Human Rights

Report Seeks Investor Pressure for Australian Labor Reporting

February 22, 2019

The pension-fund adviser Australian Council for Superannuation Investors has called on investors to put pressure on Australian companies from a broad range of sectors to fully comply with a new law requiring them to report on their efforts to end forced labor in their global supply chains.
NGO Critiques Action Plans on Implementing UNGPs

February 22, 2019

The Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a global review of national action plans on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) in government policy, including critiques of many governments for failing to follow NGO recommendations in creating these plans.
Securities Commission Group Promotes ESG Reporting

February 21, 2019

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has applauded the International Organization of Securities Commissions for issuing a report promoting the disclosure by securities issuers of the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impacts of financial assets to investors.
CoE Committee Warns of Digital Threats to Democracy

February 21, 2019

The Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers has adopted a declaration calling on CoE governments to construct legal safeguards against the use of advanced digital technologies to “manipulate social and political behaviours” and to promote “critical digital literacy skills” to blunt the impact of such technologies.
EU Agency Calls for Rights Safeguards in Speech Removal Rules

February 21, 2019

The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has released an opinion on an EU proposal for regulating the removal by internet companies of terrorist content in which the FRA calls for the inclusion of rights safeguards in the legislation including limiting the affected content and providing for judicial supervision of the removal process.