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UNICEF Commissions Report on Advertising to Children
January 13, 2017
The UN Children's Fund has commissioned a report by law firm DLA Piper examining the regulatory framework on corporate advertising and marketing to children around the world to pave the way for creating global "best practice" guidance to businesses on advertising and children's rights.
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Paper Suggests Indicators to Track BHR Impacts
January 13, 2017
A paper by Dylan Tromp, a project manager at the UN's International Labour Organization, suggests a set of indicators for use by governments, businesses, and "other stakeholders" to assess corporate influence on human rights, with the aim of holding specific businesses accountable for their human rights impacts around the world.
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NGO Guide Links SDGs to Human Rights
January 13, 2017
As part of human rights activists' and UN officials' efforts to suggest an enforcement mechanism to force businesses and governments to implement the UN's "sustainable development" agenda, the Danish Institute for Human Rights has published a guide to how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are anchored in a "legally-binding framework" of global human rights.
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GRI Examines Status of Human Rights Reporting
January 11, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative and two academic institutes have issued a report examining the progress of companies in the mining, energy, and financial sectors on fulfilling the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights by publicly disclosing their human rights impacts.
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NGO Seeks BHR Assessment of EU-Myanmar Deal
January 05, 2017
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) has published a letter to European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström criticizing the EU's report on the impacts of a pending trade deal with Myanmar and calling for the Commissioner to establish a "team of legal human rights experts" to perform a full human rights impact assessment on the deal.
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