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NGOs Laud Impacts of EU Extractives Reporting Regulations
July 24, 2018
The nongovernmental coalition Publish What You Pay UK has touted the conclusions of a British government review of reporting by oil, gas, and mining companies on what they pay to governments on a country-by-country basis under EU regulations, finding that this reporting “does not disadvantage” business interests.
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CoE Official Seeks Regulation of AI Rights Impacts
July 23, 2018
The Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović has warned that artificial-intelligence (AI) technologies could become an “evil force” violating global rights to privacy, non-discrimination, due process, and expression and calls for AI regulation based on European and UN-promoted human rights standards.
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Scholars Seek Rights Standards as Basis for ESG Investing
July 23, 2018
Professor John Ruggie and Emily Middleton of the Harvard Kennedy School have published a paper calling for international human rights standards to serve as the basis for the “social” pillar of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment principles to encourage “social performance” in business.
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NGO Calls on Facebook to Set up Data-Processing Audit
July 23, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Access Now has released an open letter calling on Facebook to submit to an independent audit of its data-processing practices and agreements on data disclosure, to perform a global human rights impact assessment, and to promote “comprehensive data protection” regulations.
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Businesses Seek UN Approval for Climate Plans
July 18, 2018
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change reports that over 114 companies around the world have submitted their action plans to combat global warming to the UN for approval under the Science Based Targets initiative, aimed at pressuring corporations to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions in line with the UN’s Paris climate accord.
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