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UNGC Initiative Targets Companies on SDGs
July 11, 2016
At its 2016 Leaders Summit, the UN Global Compact launched an initiative to pressure companies around the world to offer their support to achieving the implementation of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030.
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NGOs Seek Wide-ranging HRC Resolution on "Rights Defenders"
July 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations International Service for Human Rights and Business and Human Rights Resource Centre have criticized a UN Human Rights Council resolution seeking to assist "human rights defenders" in spotlighting violations of the business and human rights agenda for not going far enough in, for example, requiring corporate reporting on BHR issues.
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NGO Calls for Expansive Public Disclosure from AIIB
July 11, 2016
An article from Joshua Rosenzweig of Amnesty International asserts that the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank should set out a robust disclosure regime to inform the public of the impacts of the projects it finances on the global business and human rights agenda and how it seeks to address these impacts.
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Trade Union Group Pressures UN on Taxation
July 11, 2016
Public Services International, a trade union organization representing public service workers, has issued a press release calling for the UN and national governments to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance in order to ramp up the expansion of the public sector around the world.
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NGO Seeks Corporate Climate Tax, Liability
July 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Climate Justice Programme has published a report calling on governments to impose a tax on fossil fuel companies to fund efforts to counter global warming and to establish the right of citizens to hold these companies liable in courts for their contributions to climate change.
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