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GRI Recognizes "Pioneers" on "Sustainability" Reporting
August 10, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has created a Standards Pioneers Program to recognize companies that have become the "earliest adopters" of GRI's corporate reporting standards on contributions to the global "sustainable development" agenda and to provide enhanced training sessions on "sustainability reporting" to members of the Program.
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GRI Calls for Corporate Reporting on Anti-Poverty Efforts
August 10, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has issued a publication calling on companies to publicly report on their efforts to alleviate poverty around the world to permit a broad group of "policy makers, investors, civil society and other stakeholders" to examine the extent of their commitment to and impact on the anti-poverty agenda.
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GRI Partners on "Sustainability" Reporting in Indo-Pacific
August 10, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has announced its partnership with the Australian government on a project seeking to promote corporate reporting on contributions to the global "sustainable development" agenda in the Indo-Pacific region, including by pressuring regional stock exchanges to require reporting by listed companies on "sustainability."
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UN Rights Office Provides BHR Guidance for Banks
August 10, 2017
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has provided broad guidance, in response to a request from a nongovernmental organization, on factors giving rise to a bank's involvement in a violation of the business and human rights (BHR) agenda, as well as its responsibility to redress such a violation and provide access to a "grievance mechanism."
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FIFA Publishes Human Rights Policy
August 10, 2017
The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has published its first Human Rights Policy, seeking to assure activists and other critics of the organization's past practices of its future commitment to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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