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HRW Pushes for Public Reporting on Jewelry Sourcing
April 09, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch is encouraging jewelry firms to embrace the global business and human rights agenda in their sourcing of various minerals by mapping their full supply chains, performing broad human rights impact assessments, and increasing public reporting on their efforts to rid their supply chains of human rights abuses.
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Academic Proposes Internet "Rewiring" to Uphold Rights
April 03, 2018
Professor Sarah Joseph of Monash University in Australia writes that the business model of tech giant Facebook, facing global scrutiny for issues ranging from data breaches to the dissemination of "fake news," may be incompatible with human rights and suggests the internet may need to be "rewired from the grassroots" to prevent such abuses.
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GRI: Corporate Reporting Contributes to Gender Equality
March 30, 2018
A press release from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) explains how companies can use its reporting standards on topics related to the international "sustainability" agenda to demonstrate to the public how their corporate employment and other policies contribute to gender equality.
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GRI Launches Registration System for Corporate Reporting
March 30, 2018
As the organization seeks to further standardize the worldwide use of its corporate reporting standards, the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has launched a Standards Report Registration System permitting companies to notify GRI of the use of its standards and prove to others that they have issued their reports in compliance with GRI rules.
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UK Lawyer Calls for BHR Due Diligence Rules
March 30, 2018
British barrister Alison Macdonald QC recently published a blog calling for UK laws requiring British companies to establish mechanisms aimed at preventing major violations of the business and human rights (BHR) agenda in their global supply chains, in line with "due diligence" requirements under the UN Guiding Principles on BHR.
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