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Report Evaluates Banks' Violations of BHR Agenda
February 01, 2018
Nongovernmental coalition group BankTrack has published a report reviewing examples of banks' alleged contributions to violations of the international business and human rights (BHR) agenda in their provision of financial products and services with the aim of encouraging more BHR due diligence among banks to prevent future financing of rights abuses.
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EP Seeks Export Restrictions on Surveillance Products
February 01, 2018
EurActiv reports that business leaders are criticizing the broad impact of legislation adopted by the European Parliament (EP) seeking to impose strict rules on the export of technology that could be used for mass surveillance to countries outside the EU as part of the promotion of a "value-based trade policy" by EU lawmakers and officials.
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WEF Calls on Companies to "Globalize Compassion"
January 31, 2018
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has published an extensive list of social and environmental initiatives advanced at last week's meeting in Davos, Switzerland, focused on pushing companies and governments around the world to "globalize compassion" and to prepare for an inclusive "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
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PACE Seeks Monitoring Body for Soccer Governance
January 31, 2018
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has approved a resolution pushing the EU to set up an independent body to monitor governance in major soccer organizations such as the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to prevent them from "self-destructing."
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EU Struggles to Create Effective Penalties for Data Abuse
January 31, 2018
Mark Scott of Politico warns that the EU's production of new data-protection regulations providing for significant penalties for technology companies that misuse or fail to protect user data will change nothing if citizens within the EU remain uninformed about the broad complaints powers the legislation will grant them.
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