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UN Agent Seeks Strengthening of Global Labor Rights
October 26, 2016
Asserting that "labour rights are human rights," the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, has criticized countries for prioritizing trade deals and economic growth over collective bargaining policies, resulting in a "dramatic increase in the power of large multinational corporations" relative to workers.
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NGO Pushes EU Involvement in BHR Treaty Talks
October 26, 2016
Aisha Dodwell of the nongovernmental organization Global Justice Now writes that the EU must participate in UN talks to create a binding international treaty that would force countries to implement the global business and human rights agenda and hold business leaders personally liable for their companies' BHR impacts.
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NGOs Sue to Hamper Energy Extraction in Colombia
October 25, 2016
Claudia Strambo writes that, as part of their growing litigation strategy to combat climate change by limiting the energy industry's extraction of fossil fuels, nongovernmental organizations are filing lawsuits in Colombia against coal, oil, and gas companies on behalf of communities complaining of the effects of extraction projects on their human rights.
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IADB Mechanism Finds Community Consent Violation
October 25, 2016
An internal complaint mechanism at the Inter-American Development Bank has found that the bank violated its new environmental and sustainability policy by failing to secure the consent of several Mexican communities regarding a wind-power project it planned to fund in the region.
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NGO Seeks Chinese Standards on Business "Sustainability"
October 25, 2016
Cao Jiahan of the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies writes that Chinese businesses, particularly in the infrastructure industry, should adopt global standards relating to the UN's social and environmental "sustainability" agenda in their overseas operations to improve their image and combat environmental degradation.
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