Business & Human Rights

Dutch Council Seeks Robust SDG Policies

June 30, 2016

The Dutch Advisory Council on International Affairs has called on the Netherlands to ramp up support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in business operations by building a more robust regulatory regime and working with international organizations to bind corporations to SDG commitments.
UN Agent Seeks Favorable Ruling on Hedge Fund Law

June 29, 2016

UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, has called on the Belgian Constitutional Court to uphold the main portions of a law that restricts the amount of sovereign debt hedge funds can collect in Belgium's court system.
NGOs Pan G-7 for Lack of BHR Commitment

June 29, 2016

A group of nongovernmental organizations released a document expressing disappointment that the G-7 group of countries' recent meeting in Japan led to no concrete discussion on national commitments to implement the UN's business and human rights agenda in global corporate supply chains.
NGO Criticizes EU Mineral Legislation

June 29, 2016

Swedish nongovernmental organization Swedwatch has published a report criticizing the limited reach of new EU legislation on business use of conflict minerals from war-torn areas of Africa and calling for EU member states to enact more far-reaching regulations on the issue.
EU Countries Announce Tax Agreement

June 29, 2016

The Dutch EU Presidency has announced that the EU member states have agreed to a bloc-wide plan to penalize companies that attempt to avoid European taxes through such methods as moving their profits to subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions.