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UN Seeks to Link Resource "Exploitation," Violent Conflicts
April 08, 2016
The Washington Post reports that an upcoming meeting of the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya, will seek to underscore links the UN has worked to draw as part of its environmental agenda between corporate "exploitation" of natural resources and violent conflict.
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Paper Calls for Indian BHR Framework
April 08, 2016
The Ethical Trading Initiative has published a paper calling on India to follow the lead of other countries that have developed national action plans on implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR") by developing its own "national framework" to hold companies accountable for violations of the global BHR agenda.
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BHR Analysts Seek Corporate "Peace-building" in Conflict Zones
April 08, 2016
Annie Kelly writes that, in addition to robust supply-chain protections of "economic, social, environmental and cultural rights," business and human rights ("BHR") activists and observers are seeking corporate contributions to "peace-building" when they operate in areas of armed conflict.
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NGO Event Pushes EU Policies for "Sustainable" Supply Chains
April 07, 2016
Nongovernmental organization CSR Europe recently hosted an event in Brussels at which politicians, human rights activists, and business representatives called for EU policies promoting responsibility of corporations for the human rights and "sustainability" situations in their supply chains.
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Paper Examines Effects of Social Movements on Companies
April 07, 2016
An article by Panayiotis Georgallis of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor examines how social movements can influence the behavior of corporate leaders and cause them to advance social initiatives, including by making such initiatives more attractive by modifying the expectations of businesses' stakeholders.
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