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Law Firm Uses Survey to Promote BHR Agenda
November 07, 2016
Law firm Herbert Smith Freehills is using a survey showing an increase in knowledge among in-house counsel about the global business and human rights agenda to call on lawyers to "go beyond what is strictly required under the law" by advising companies on BHR issues to avoid reputational impacts.
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NGOs Use Environmental Precedent for BHR Treaty
November 07, 2016
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations called CIVICUS has called on negotiators of a binding treaty on business and human rights (BHR) issues to use the Aarhus Convention, an instrument requiring countries to offer procedural rights on environmental matters, as a model for a BHR treaty that recognizes citizens' "right to information" on corporate human rights impacts.
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Paper Dismisses Duty of Extraterritorial BHR Regulation
November 04, 2016
Claire Methven O’Brien writes in favor of the position of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, but spurned by BHR advocates pushing for states to do more to punish multinational corporations for foreign human rights violations, that governments have no international human rights obligation to prevent BHR abuses committed abroad.
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NGO: Japanese Companies Fail to Disclose Impacts
November 04, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Rainforest Action Network has issued a report accusing ten major Japanese companies of failing to properly report the social and environmental impacts of their operations and those of their supply chains relating to tropical deforestation.
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Oxfam Criticizes EU Promotion of Biofuel Industry
November 04, 2016
Revealing the complexity involved in appeasing nongovernmental organizations by pursuing the global environmental agenda, the nongovernmental organization Oxfam has criticized the EU for working with the biofuel industry in its attempts to combat climate change, asserting that the industry is violating human rights through "land grabs" in developing countries.
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