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Unilever CEO Champions BHR Initiatives
February 09, 2016
Paul Polman, CEO of consumer goods company Unilever and Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, writes that companies must implement the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda across their operations in order to advance "sustainability" and economic equality.
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AI Pushes Measures to Reduce Financing for Firearms
February 08, 2016
Amnesty International ("AI") has published a report calling on Luxembourg to pass laws restricting financing by the country's banking sector of the production and transfer of various arms and pressuring banks to adopt policies addressing what AI deems to be their international legal obligation to restrict funding for firearms.
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NGOs Select Companies for Monitoring on BHR Compliance
February 05, 2016
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations including the Business & Human Rights ("BHR") Resource Centre has published its criteria for the selection of 100 companies to be monitored in 2016 as part of the coalition's pilot Corporate Human Rights Benchmark program on implementation of the global BHR agenda.
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NGO Publishes "Toolbox" for BHR Impact Assessments
February 05, 2016
The Danish Institute for Human Rights has published guidance for businesses to develop "impact assessments" considering how their operations might fuel violations of the UN's business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and for human rights activists to monitor the outcomes of these assessments.
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NGO Criticizes Draft EU Mineral Sourcing Law
February 04, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Global Witness has warned that the voluntary, limited nature of a proposal from EU member states seeking to regulate corporate sourcing of minerals from war-torn areas of Africa, to be negotiated by EU officials in Strasbourg in February, will fail "to reduce global conflict."
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