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Stock Exchange Initiative Pushes Gender Reporting
March 23, 2017
The Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative, which pressures stock exchanges around the world to contribute to the fulfillment of the UN's "sustainable development" agenda, has published a report calling on exchanges to do more to push listed companies to advance women's "economic empowerment," particularly by imposing new reporting requirements on these businesses.
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UN Seeks Best Practices for "Empowerment" Principles
March 23, 2017
As part of the agency's promotion of its Women’s Empowerment Principles, which commit businesses around the world to pursuing broad concepts related to "economic empowerment," UN Women recently hosted a Japanese business federation to discuss their women's empowerment policies at UN Headquarters in New York.
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UN Agency Broadens Scope of MNE Declaration
March 22, 2017
The International Labour Organization's recently updated Tripartite Declaration of principles concerning Multinational Enterprises (MNE) and Social Policy includes items from the global business and human rights agenda including corporate due diligence standards and the social right to "decent work."
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UN Agency Adopts Aircraft Emissions Rules
March 22, 2017
The UN's International Civil Aviation Organization has formally adopted a set of global standards regulating aircraft emissions in order to force the airline industry to contribute to the implementation of the UN's agenda against climate change beginning in the year 2020.
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UN Event Promotes Women’s "Economic Empowerment"
March 22, 2017
Participants at a UN Asia-Pacific regional policy dialogue called for "decisive measures" to fight gender inequality in the economy and ensure the “economic empowerment” of women, although the precise meaning of "empowerment" and the role of national governments in these reforms remain unclear.
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