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Airline Association: Emissions Tax Will Cost Customers
June 08, 2016
International Air Transportation Association Director General Tony Tyler has confirmed that consumers will have to bear the costs of a decision the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization will likely make this fall to seek a tax on airlines to offset the greenhouse gas emissions of their airplanes.
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Academic Seeks International Corporate Criminal Liability
June 07, 2016
At a recent presentation at Copenhagen Business School, Dr. Nadia Bernaz of Middlesex University School of Law in London called for the extension of international legal doctrine providing for individual criminal liability to be extended, through a binding international legal instrument, to corporations.
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ETI Publishes "Living Wage" Guidance for Supply Chains
June 07, 2016
The Ethical Trading Initiative, a network of companies, trade unions, and nongovernmental organizations, has published guidance for businesses on how to support a "living wage" in their supply chains in line with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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NGO Pushes Aggressive Tax Policy in Latin America
June 07, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Center for Economic and Social Rights recently hosted an event at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights during which UN representatives and others called on Latin American countries to pursue anti-tax avoidance policies for corporations and wealthy individuals to fund the realization of economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Article Links Fulfillment of Human Rights, SDGs
June 06, 2016
A blog post from Francis West of Unicef UK calls on businesses and governments to recognize that the key to fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030 is to ensure, as a starting point, broad implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.
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