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NGO Criticizes EU for Not Supporting BHR Treaty
December 22, 2015
The nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth Europe has published a paper deriding the EU and its member states for supporting "corporate rights" through an investor-state dispute mechanism in its trade agreements but taking measures to oppose a wide-ranging, binding UN treaty on business and human rights ("BHR").
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GRI Head Pushes Reporting Standards in Australia
December 21, 2015
At a series of events in Australia, Chief Executive of the Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") Michael Meehan spoke to GRI's "Organizational Stakeholders" and others about the importance of public reporting on environmental and human rights issues to the success of the UN's sustainable development agenda.
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GRI Emphasizes Connection Between SDGs, Reporting
December 21, 2015
The Global Reporting Initiative ("GRI") has published an article calling on businesses to permit third parties to measure their implementation of the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") through GRI standards on public sustainability reporting.
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UN Agent Seeks Remedies for Forced Labor in Supply Chains
December 21, 2015
The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery Urmila Bhoola has called on countries to ramp up remedies and corporate liability for alleged forced labor in company supply chains and has pushed businesses to "leverage [their] extensive capacity and resources" to end these practices.
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ISO Pushes Standards to Combat Climate Change
December 18, 2015
In an article released during the UN climate talks in Paris, the International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") highlighted over 570 standards it has produced for businesses on the environment and called for collaboration among standard-producing organizations to close gaps in climate-change standards.
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