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NGOs Call for Canadian Ombudsman on Mining Impacts
November 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations Inter Pares and the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability have published an article calling for the establishment of an ombudsman in Canada who would monitor and impose mandatory penalties on Canadian mining companies for their alleged violations of the global business and human rights agenda.
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Professor Calls for Reporting Mandates in BHR Treaty
November 10, 2016
Following the conclusion of the second session of the Working Group charged with developing a binding UN business and human rights treaty, Professor Erika George of the University of Utah College of Law writes that a key component of such a treaty must be the global harmonization of corporate BHR reporting standards.
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IACHR Finds No Rights for Corporations
November 10, 2016
An article published by the nongovernmental organization Due Process of Law Foundation describes a recent advisory opinion from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights finding that corporations are not entitled to rights under the Court's enabling document, thus facilitating increased regulation of corporate entities under the business and human rights agenda.
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NGO Staffer Pushes Rights Agenda in EU Trade
November 10, 2016
An observer writing on the website Development and Cooperation criticizes current EU trade policy for failing to recognize human rights to "food, health or social protection" and calls for the EU to include implementation of the global human rights agenda and guarantee the performance of human rights impact assessments in all of its future trade agreements.
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Oxfam Seeks "Robust" EU Tax Haven Blacklist
November 10, 2016
A press release from the nongovernmental organization Oxfam calls on EU officials considering a tax haven "blacklist" for countries that offer low tax rates to multinational companies to impose "sufficiently robust" rules for these jurisdictions, to include EU member states, and to consider a zero-percent corporate tax rate as a "key criterion" for tax haven status.
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