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Unilever Publishes Palm-Oil Supply Chain
March 08, 2018
The Thomson Reuters Foundation reports that consumer-goods company Unilever has revealed its entire supply chain relating to palm oil, ratcheting up pressure on other companies with multinational networks to publicly report on their suppliers and efforts to force their business partners to abide by global social and environmental standards.
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UN Group Considers BHR Obligations in Trade Policy
March 08, 2018
The UN Working Group on business and human rights (BHR) issues has announced as a priority for the year 2018 its development of "good practice models" for governments to follow when promoting trade and investment with other countries and when engaged as economic actors.
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Think Tank Develops Framework for Ethics in AI
March 08, 2018
The British think tank Institute of Business Ethics has released a briefing setting out a framework of the values corporations should consider when developing and employing artificial-intelligence (AI) technology and calling on companies to engage in a "multi-stakeholder dialogue" to determine whether they are heeding ethical principles in their use of AI.
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UK Court Rejects Nigerian Oil-Spill Case
March 08, 2018
Reuters reports that, in a case with significant import to the liability of companies for the actions of their foreign subsidiaries, the UK Court of Appeal has ruled that two Nigerian communities accusing Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian subsidiary of causing oil spills in their region could not pursue their claims against the parent corporation in British courts.
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UN Agency Launches Environmental Rights Initiative
March 07, 2018
UN Environment has launched an Environmental Rights Initiative aimed in part at pressuring businesses to "champion" a universal, enforceable right to a healthy environment, as part of the UN agency's efforts to "give environmental rights the same legal standing as human rights at the global level."
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