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UK Official Places Onus on Companies to Protect Children Online
June 07, 2018
UK Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has threatened social-media companies with new regulations if they fail to engage in self-regulation protecting child rights online, including by "cutting underage use, preventing cyber bullying, and promoting healthy screen time," arguing companies must not force parents to make the choice to cut off their children from online "social interaction."
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UK Parliament Body Reviews Rights Issues in Sports
June 07, 2018
The UK's All Party Parliamentary Group on Sport, Modern Slavery and Human Rights is calling for submissions from sports bodies, nongovernmental organizations, athletes, and others to be included in its investigation of "pressing human rights problems affecting large scale sporting events around the world."
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NGOs Publish Briefing on BHR Treaty's Structural Issues
June 07, 2018
The nongovernmental organizations Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung and the Global Policy Forum have produced a briefing aimed at guiding negotiators of a binding UN treaty on business and human rights (BHR) how such a document should be formatted, where the relevant institutions should be embedded, and how the text must be drafted.
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NGO Creates "Ethical" IP Licensing Language
June 07, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Corporate Accountability Lab has proposed language for "ethical intellectual property (IP) licensing" agreements through which inventors and others who secure IP rights would force companies to which these rights are licensed to ensure they are not fueling human rights violations in their global supply chains.
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GRI Partners with Forum on Child Rights Reporting
June 06, 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has signed an agreement with the Global Child Forum, through which stakeholders explore how best to fulfill the UN Children's Rights Convention, to cooperate on "driving corporate action to improve the lives of children" through GRI's corporate reporting framework on "sustainability" issues.
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