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San Francisco, Oakland File Climate Lawsuits
December 04, 2017
Reuters reports that city attorneys in San Francisco and Oakland recently filed lawsuits claiming that five global energy companies have caused a "public nuisance" by contributing to global warming and demanding funds for infrastructure to protect against the impacts of climate change, joining a trend of municipalities suing oil and gas companies over alleged climate impacts.
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OECD Promotes Regulation of Gender Equality
December 04, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has produced a "call to action" for governments around the world to strengthen progress on "gender equality goals," including eliminating the "gender wage gap" and "unequal sharing of unpaid work," through such policies as affirmative action and corporate reporting on pay by gender.
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OECD Pushes for "Sustainable" Tourism Industry
December 01, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) issued recommendations in October calling on governments to place more pressure on their tourism industries to ensure they are "ecologically sustainable and socially inclusive."
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NGOs Push for Corporate Human Rights Prosecutions
December 01, 2017
A group of legal experts convened by Amnesty International and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable has issued a report calling for the governments of countries in which multinational corporations are based to expand the use of criminal prosecutions against these companies in cases of alleged human rights violations abroad.
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UK NGOs Criticize Corporate Forced Labor Reporting
December 01, 2017
The UK CORE Coalition of civil society organizations has published a rating of British companies' compliance with the UK Modern Slavery Act, which requires businesses to report on their efforts to eliminate forced labor from their supply chains, criticizing what it deems to be low compliance with the reporting requirements and calling for more transparency.
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