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UNICEF Publishes Corporate Toolkit for Child “Safeguarding”
July 13, 2018
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has published a global “toolkit” guiding companies on adherence to global human rights obligations pertaining to children and discussing how companies must “ensure children do not come to harm as a result of any direct or indirect contact” with their operations.
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UK Committee Investigates Impacts of Fashion Industry
July 13, 2018
The UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee has launched an investigation of the fashion industry, with a particular focus on disposable “fast fashion,” to determine whether Britain should subject the industry to increased regulatory scrutiny regarding labor rights and environmental harm.
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UN Agents Seek Trade, Finance Push to Advance BHR Agenda
July 13, 2018
At a recent session of the UN Human Rights Council, the Chair of the UN Working Group on business and human rights (BHR) issues presented a report on how governments should pressure corporations to implement the BHR agenda by threatening to cut off non-complying companies from support under states’ trade promotion and finance policies.
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Academic: AI Must Force Businesses to Address Rights Abuse
July 12, 2018
Consultant and Rutgers University academic Samir Goswami writes that governments must ensure that artificial intelligence (AI) technology places pressure on businesses to better respond to alleged human rights violations in their supply chains and does “not exacerbate existing economic disparities.”
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NGO Blames Supermarkets for Global Labor Rights Abuse
July 12, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has launched a campaign pressuring major supermarket chains to end “brutal working conditions” and labor rights violations in their global supply chains and “to radically improve transparency around their food sourcing policies.”
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