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NGO Seeks Bolstered Australian NCP Mechanism
August 28, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Law Centre has submitted a statement to a mechanism reviewing the performance of the Australian OECD National Contact Point (NCP) arguing that the government must do more to empower the NCP, which investigates global corporate human rights violations, to take action against rights-violating businesses.
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Companies Agree to Promote Unionizing in Garment Industry
August 28, 2017
A group of garment and retail companies and a global trade union federation called IndustriALL have launched a global compact providing for industry-wide collective bargaining to promote the payment of so-called "living wages" to workers across the garment production industry.
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NGO Targets Investors on Agricultural Supply Risks
August 28, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Ceres has launched an online guide aiming to place pressure on investors to perform "due diligence" in monitoring and addressing the environmental and human rights impacts of their investments on global agricultural supply chains.
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Consultant Pushes Broad Child Rights Agenda for Businesses
August 28, 2017
Benjamin Azada of PricewaterhouseCoopers' Philippines-based consulting services, which are working with the UN Children's Fund to enhance business respect of children's rights around the world, sets out a series of 10 broad principles companies must prioritize in enhancing children's rights in their operations, including using safe marketing and respecting environmental rights.
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NGO Pushes Guatemala to Implement BHR Agenda
August 25, 2017
The nongovernmental organization the Unit for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders of Guatemala has produced a "national baseline assessment" examining Guatemala's current implementation of the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda with the aim of developing a "national action plan" on fulfilling the UN Guiding Principles on BHR in the country.
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