Business & Human Rights

NGO Pushes G-20 Action on "Green Finance"

September 14, 2016

The nongovernmental organization GermanWatch has called for the German government, as current leader of the G-20 group of countries, to pressure the group to take action on "shifting the trillions" of investment funding from financial institutions to climate-related projects and requiring public reporting by financial companies on their environmental impacts.
Article Seeks BHR Assessment of ASEAN Trade Policy

September 14, 2016

Legal researcher Shalini Bhutani has called on countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, in cooperation with their national human rights institutions, to conduct a formal human rights impact assessment of a regional free trade deal to ensure the "privileges" it grants to corporations comply with the global business and human rights agenda.
Lawyer: Indonesia Must Respect BHR Agenda in Tax Policy

September 14, 2016

Human rights lawyer Nurkholis Hidayat writes that the Indonesian Government must respect the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in implementing a "fair and just" tax policy to ensure that corporations contribute to the fulfillment of the global economic, social, and cultural rights agenda.
NGOs Encourage Foreign Lawsuits Against UK Companies

September 14, 2016

The nongovernmental organizations CORE and London Mining Network have published a guide for alleged victims of corporate environmental and other harms in foreign countries to pursue remedies against UK companies in British courts.
Quaker UN Group Takes up "Climate Justice" Cause

September 13, 2016

A report from the Quaker United Nations Office demonstrates how religious advocacy groups have taken up the global cause of environmental activists to use national and international courts to require governments to limit greenhouse gas emissions among private industries by declaring a "human right" against climate change.