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EU Rules Push Investor Reporting on Engagement
March 24, 2017
The European Parliament has voted in favor of measures that would require shareholder participation in corporate policies such as director pay to pressure companies to look toward "long-term interests" and force institutional investors to publicly report the extent to which they engage with the companies in which they invest.
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Activist Calls on Businesses to Embrace "Gender Justice"
March 24, 2017
The Institute for Human Rights and Business has published a post from activist Srilatha Batliwala criticizing the alleged complicity of many businesses around the world in suppressing the rights of women and arguing that businesses have an obligation to collaborate on achieving global "gender justice."
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GRI Hosts Africa Workshops on Sustainability
March 23, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) recently held in Ghana the first of a series of workshops it is hosting across Africa calling on companies to use GRI's global sustainability reporting standards to demonstrate their efforts to implement the UN's business and human rights agenda.
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GRI, UN "Action Platform" Pushes Companies on SDGs
March 23, 2017
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and UN Global Compact are partnering on an initiative to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by developing an "SDGs Action Platform" that will both pressure companies to share their "best practices" in contributing to the SDG agenda and convene a global advisory group to tell companies how to report their SDG progress.
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UNGC Seeks Business Pledge to "Empower" Women
March 23, 2017
On International Women's Day, the UN Global Compact (UNGC) released a statement on its upcoming programs promoting the UN network's Women's Empowerment Principles, which seek to commit businesses to breaking their "gender bias" and contributing to the provisions of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals on gender equality.
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