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Analyst Criticizes Corporate Tax Breaks in Africa
August 31, 2016
Analyst Mark Curtis writes that African countries must stop offering favorable tax incentives to foreign companies to attract investment in their economy, arguing that governments are "giving money away" through such tax breaks.
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UN Agents Call for Reduced Advertising to Children
August 31, 2016
UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Püras, have called for governments to ban certain advertising to children, arguing that some commercial advertising can promote unhealthy diets and "cause unhealthy consumer behaviour to become ingrained at an early age."
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Greenpeace Criticizes US Seafood Sourcing
August 30, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Greenpeace has produced a report shaming US food service companies for failing to sufficiently take into account Greenpeace's human rights and environmental standards when procuring seafood from their suppliers.
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ISO Develops "Sustainable Procurement" Standard
August 30, 2016
The International Organization for Standardization is developing a new global standard that guides organizations on how to fulfill the UN's sustainable development agenda when making decisions on procuring products and services.
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NGOs Seek Social Safeguards at BRICS Development Bank
August 30, 2016
Following the first annual meeting of the New Development Bank, created by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) group of countries, nongovernmental organizations called for more dialogue between the NDB and civil society and for the NDB to develop social and environmental safeguards based on the global business and human rights agenda.
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