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Germany Launches Monitoring of BHR Due Diligence
September 05, 2018
The German government has launched a three-year monitoring process to find whether German businesses are engaging in “human rights due diligence” measures as envisioned in the country’s business and human rights (BHR) action plan and to determine the need for mandatory BHR-oriented legislative measures.
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Observer Calls for Safeguards on Facial-Recognition Tech
September 05, 2018
Cynthia Wong of Human Rights Watch uses the Australian Parliament’s consideration of the expansion of law-enforcement reliance on facial-recognition technology to raise general concerns about the human rights implications of government and corporate use of such technology and the need for “explicit safeguards” regarding its implementation.
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Facebook Energy Pledge Aims to Fulfill UN Climate Agenda
September 04, 2018
Engadget reports on tech giant Facebook’s announcement that it will power its global operations with renewable energy by the end of the year 2020 and reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 75 percent within that time frame, as part of a trend of ambitious climate commitments agreed by businesses since the signing of the UN’s 2015 Paris climate accord.
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ISO Publishes Standard for Measure “Carbon Footprint”
August 31, 2018
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new global standard to enable businesses to quantify, publicly report on, and reduce the level of their greenhouse gas emissions in compliance with the global agenda against climate change.
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UN Agents Applaud Penalization of Monsanto over Weedkiller
August 31, 2018
UN human rights mandate holders have welcomed the decision of a US jury to award $289 million in damages from agricultural products company Monsanto due to “potential causal relations” between its weedkiller and cancer, predicting the damages will place pressure on companies to protect a “wide range” of environmental and other rights.
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