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IBA Launches BHR Handbook, Training for Lawyers
March 30, 2017
The International Bar Association (IBA) has announced that it will publish an online handbook on implementing the business and human rights (BHR) agenda in the legal profession and a training program through which it will teach attorneys how to advise businesses to prevent BHR violations in their operations.
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Study Supports Nonjudicial BHR Resolution Mechanisms
March 30, 2017
A recent study from a team at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Human Rights advocates for the use of "extrajudicial complaint mechanisms" such as mediation, rather than lawsuits, to bring corporations to the table in efforts by activists and alleged victims of human rights violations to encourage the implementation of the global business and human rights (BHR) agenda.
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Benchmark Aims for Expanded BHR Disclosure
March 30, 2017
John Morrison of the Institute for Human Rights and Business, which contributed to the establishment of the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark to rank companies on their efforts to implement the business and human rights (BHR) agenda, illustrates how the initiative seeks to pressure businesses to expand their reporting practices on BHR and sustainability.
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UN Launches Network to Press for “Equal Pay”
March 30, 2017
The UN has debuted its Equal Pay Platform of Champions, a network designed to pressure governments to adopt policies that will achieve “equal pay” for women and correct the “unjustifiably diminished position of many women in society.”
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Activists Call on G20 to Enforce BHR “Due Diligence”
March 30, 2017
Human Rights Watch has published an open letter calling on the German government, as the current president of the Group of 20 (G20) countries, to push for all G20 members to commit to requiring all businesses to perform “due diligence” to ensure the implementation of the business and human rights (BHR) agenda in their global supply chains.
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