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NGO Calls for "Ethical Trade" to Support SDGs
January 23, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Ethical Trading Initiative has published a report highlighting how it is integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the global business and human rights agenda with its "ethical trade" initiatives to push for comprehensive business action supporting the UN's social and environmental goals.
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UK Businesses Support Report on Fulfilling SDGs
January 23, 2017
A group of British companies have published a letter supporting a Business & Sustainable Development Commission report asserting that government measures focused on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will contribute to massive economic growth and create a world that is "comprehensively sustainable."
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Workshop Drives Climate Advocacy Among Lawyers
January 19, 2017
The law school at King's College London recently hosted a workshop, in cooperation with the nongovernmental organization Advocates for International Development, considering the viability of climate change litigation and exploring what responsibility lawyers have to confront their corporate clients about the risks of global warming.
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NGO Pushes Scrutiny of "Modern Slavery" Statements
January 19, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Ethical Trading Initiative has called on companies to place their "Modern Slavery Statements," made under a recently passed UK law mandating corporate reporting on forced labor, in a "central registry" maintained by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre for scrutiny by civil society.
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NGOs Criticize "Voluntary" Measures in BHR Action Plans
January 19, 2017
A press release from the European Coalition for Corporate Justice on the Swiss, Italian, German, and US "national action plans" on implementing the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda laments that none of the plans relies on binding measures or provides for sufficient access to judicial remedy by alleged victims of BHR violations.
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