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GRI, Sweden Push for Corporate Reporting on SDGs
May 11, 2018
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Danish Institute for Human Rights, and the Swedish International Development Agency have entered a new partnership through which they will seek action from businesses, including through public reporting, contributing to the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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NGOs: Banks Must Recognize Greater Duty on Rights
May 10, 2018
A group of nongovernmental organizations and academics has published a letter calling on the Thun Group of banks to engage in more extensive consultations with activist NGOs and other "stakeholders" with the aim of recognizing a larger role of member banks in redressing human rights violations related to companies and projects these banks finance.
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UNESCO Pushes Media to Accept "Holistic Gender" Agenda
May 10, 2018
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently partnered with Global Alliance for Media and Gender on a panel exploring how media companies must embrace a "holistic gender" agenda to ensure equality in women's participation in, coverage by, and access to global media to ensure the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Official Seeks SDG-Compliant Financial Policies
May 10, 2018
At a recent meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Buenos Aires, the UN Development Programme's Administrator Achim Steiner called for greater alignment between international financial policies and the UN's comprehensive social and economic targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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World Bank Seeks "Green" Agriculture in East Asia
May 10, 2018
The World Bank has produced an infographic explaining how East Asian countries should make their agricultural sectors more environmentally friendly, indicating the development body's ongoing embrace of the global "sustainable development" agenda.