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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."
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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.
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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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UN Body Develops Rights Framework for Trade Deals
November 20, 2017
Dr. Diane Desierto of the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law explains how a recent General Comment from the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights seeks to embed international human rights law "in every step of States’ regulation of the conduct of business activities, trade, and investment," including in the negotiation of trade deals.
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UN Working Group Forms Blog on BHR Remedies
November 20, 2017
In the run-up to its Business and Human Rights (BHR) Forum in Geneva at the end of November, the UN Working Group on BHR has launched a Forum blog series on the website of the BHR Journal to promote discussion among nongovernmental organizations and other contributors of how the UN body should bolster the right to remedy for BHR violations.
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