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UN Report Seeks Rights-Centered Corporate SDG Strategies
December 13, 2018
The UN Global Compact has published a report explaining how companies around the world must “adopt a principles-based approach that places human rights at the centre of their strategy” to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including through human rights “risk assessments” and supporting rights throughout their supply chains.
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NGO Database Pushes “Sustainability” Through BHR Agenda
December 13, 2018
The Danish Institute for Human Rights recently launched a database pushing businesses to align their operations with the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda by providing examples of how corporate BHR implementation contributed to the comprehensive targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Official Warns of Global Warming as Human Rights Threat
December 12, 2018
Reflecting long-standing calls from nongovernmental organizations to jumpstart the corporate “climate action” agenda by linking it to human rights and sustainable development, UN Global Compact Executive Director Lise Kingo identifies global warming as a “new man-made threat” to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Mining, Metals Industry Body Requires Adherence to UNGPs
December 12, 2018
In November, the International Council on Mining & Metals, a global industry body promoting “safe, fair and sustainable” practices in the mining and metals industry, became the first such body to require member companies to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).
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Italy Publishes Five-Year BHR Action Plan
December 12, 2018
The Italian government recently published its first National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights (BHR), for the years 2016 through 2021, as “an instrument to move towards the new needs of interaction between human rights and the economic dimension,” as outlined in the UN Guiding Principles on BHR.
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