Business & Human Rights

  • NGO Pushes for Extractive Sector BHR Reforms

    March 30, 2016

    As the Canadian Government becomes chair of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, a set of guidelines aimed at furthering the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda in the extractive industry, the nongovernmental organization MiningWatch Canada has called on Canada to enhance reporting and grievance mechanism requirements under the Principles.

  • Activists Blame Corporate Tax Incentives for Deaths in Nigeria

    March 29, 2016

    Spotlighting the strategy of economic, social, and cultural rights proponents to realize their agenda through corporate taxation and penalties, an article adapted from a report by the nongovernmental organization ActionAid blames poor education and even deaths of Nigerians on tax incentives offered by the country to energy companies.

  • Activists Use Business Tactics to Push Climate Agenda

    March 29, 2016

    An article on E&E Publishing demonstrates how activists seeking to further the UN's agenda on climate change have been using shareholder resolutions and pressure on financial companies over energy corporations in their stock portfolios to push businesses to limit their involvement in fossil fuels and to outline their efforts to prevent global warming.

  • GRI Partners with Tech Consultancy on Sustainability Reporting

    March 29, 2016

    The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has announced that it is partnering with technology consulting company Tata Consultancy Services to advance the use of "big data" in corporate reporting on environmental and social information to help advance the global agenda on sustainability.

  • GRI Promotes Sustainability Reporting in Asia

    March 28, 2016

    The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") is hosting a meeting in Manila to encourage political and business leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ("ASEAN") to push, through both voluntary and regulatory action, corporate reporting on the implementation of the UN's sustainable development agenda.

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