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Stakeholders Struggle to Define "Climate Finance"
October 16, 2017
Nathan Rive of the Asian Development Bank highlights how governments and international institutions working with the Green Climate Fund are struggling to disentangle "climate finance," aiming to reduce the impacts of global warming, and ordinary development finance, producing problems involving the long-term accountability in private and public development funding.
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Israel, US Threaten Retaliation over UNHRC "Blacklist"
October 16, 2017
The Times of Israel reports that Israeli and US officials have warned that the UN Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) publication of a database of companies operating in Israeli settlements could trigger cuts in UN funding by both countries and the withdrawal of the US from the UNHRC.
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NGO Criticizes "Voluntary" Australian Reporting Proposal
October 16, 2017
Komala Ramachandra of Human Rights Watch criticizes an Australian proposal for legislation requiring reporting by businesses on forced labor in their supply chains as insufficient, asserting that the law must include penalties for noncompliance, require "due diligence" on eliminating labor rights violations, and allow those who allege such violations access to Australian courts.
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Commentary: US Should Quit UNHRC over "Blacklist"
October 11, 2017
Benjamin Weinthal of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes that the US and other "morally-principled countries" should withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) if the body proceeds with publishing a database of all companies doing business in Israeli settlements, asserting that the database is part of a global, anti-Semitic boycott movement.
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Lawyer: Create Global Approach to Labor Reporting
October 11, 2017
Amy Sinclair of the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre writes that, rather than perpetuate an "international mishmash of misaligned laws" requiring corporate "due diligence" and reporting on forced labor in supply chains, governments, including Australia, must adopt a "consistent global approach" to mandating business reporting on these issues.
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