Business & Human Rights

  • UN Pushes Businesses on Gender Equality Targets

    November 21, 2017

    UN Women hosted an event in September pushing businesses and foundations to adopt the gender-specific targets set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and increase their funding for women's economic equality, including by supporting a UN advertising initiative seeking to "promote a more realistic and aspirational portrayal of women."

  • UN Agencies Seek Business Recognition of Sexual Rights

    November 21, 2017

    The UN Population Fund, UN Women, and a group of national governments co-hosted an event on the margins of the UN General Assembly in September seeking to make the "business case" for advancing women's "sexual and reproductive health rights," often interpreted to include abortion, to promote women's "economic empowerment."

  • UN Official Calls for Women-Focused Economic "Transformation"

    November 21, 2017

    At a recent roundtable event of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka emphasized her agency's focus on pressuring businesses to help "transform the economies of the world" so that they "work for women."

  • WEF Launches Initiative on "For-Benefit" Organizations

    November 20, 2017

    The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently announced the launch of the Fourth Sector Development Initiative to promote the growth of "for-benefit" corporations that go beyond the traditional profit-making objective to "take responsibility for the well-being of their stakeholders" and help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

  • WEF Initiative Calls for Deforestation-Free Industries

    November 20, 2017

    The World Economic Forum's (WEF) Tropical Forest Alliance 2020, a coalition of governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and others, has released a set of 10 principles aimed at transforming commodity supply chains in a number of industries to exclude products obtained through deforestation by the year 2020.

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