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WHO Candidates Propose Pressure on Medicine Prices
December 09, 2016
IP-Watch reports that two candidates for the position of Director of the UN's World Health Organization have both pointed to ways of placing pressure on pharmaceutical companies, through "social responsibility" measures and "price monitoring," to reduce the price of their medication around the world.
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UN Agents Seek Clampdown on Baby Formula Marketing
December 08, 2016
Arguing that countries "should be careful not to condemn or judge women" who do not breastfeed, a group of UN human rights mandate holders nonetheless label breastfeeding "a matter of human rights" for babies and call on governments to crack down on "misleading marketing practices" by businesses promoting the use of baby formula.
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UN Extracts Corporate Climate Plans at Summit
December 08, 2016
The UN Global Compact and other UN bodies convened a meeting at the recent climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, at which they reviewed corporate action plans on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Paris climate deal reached last year and launched a "solutions platform" to pressure companies to help meet national pledges under the deal.
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UN, NGOs Monitor Companies' Climate Action
December 08, 2016
The UN Global Compact and a group of nongovernmental organizations have signed 200 businesses to their Science Based Targets Initiative, under which companies agree to scrutiny of their adherence to "ambitious" targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in their operations and in their global supply chains.
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OECD, UN Project Expands Corporate Tax Revenue
December 08, 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) outlines how its Tax Inspectors Without Borders project, produced jointly with the UN Development Programme, sends tax experts to developing countries to ensure that multinational corporations are paying their "fair share of tax."
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