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Attorney Highlights Globalization of Labor Disputes
September 15, 2016
Attorney Joe Turzi of DLA Piper LLP reflects on the growing trend of labor activists circumventing the domestic labor dispute resolution process by taking their claims to authorities, such as the US State Department, that apply global principles on labor rights from such entities as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to local employment conflicts.
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NGOs Seek Focus on Rights in UN Climate Efforts
September 15, 2016
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre and the Center for International Environmental Law have submitted a proposal to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change calling on the agency to include fulfillment of the global business and human rights agenda in implementing the UN deal on climate change reached in Paris last December.
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G-20 Supports Global Governance of Taxation
September 14, 2016
In its final communiqué from a recent summit in Hangzhou, China, leaders from the G-20 group of countries called for the establishment of a "fair and modern international tax system," particularly through automatic global sharing of corporate tax information through an initiative launched by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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Singapore Joins UN Sustainable Stock Exchange Initiative
September 14, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has praised Singapore's decision to become the 59th member of the agency's Sustainable Stock Exchanges, signaling the continued growth of this UN effort to use stock exchanges to place pressure on companies to contribute to the organization's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
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ICAO Receives Support for Airline Emissions Limits
September 14, 2016
Reuters reports that the US, China, and EU countries have pledged to support global aviation emissions limits under negotiation at the UN's International Civil Aviation Organisation that will not be finalized until an ICAO meeting at the end of this month.
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