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UN Calls for Public-Private Partnerships to Achieve SDGs
February 01, 2016
UN officials meeting with business representatives in Davos, Switzerland, during the World Economic Forum called for the establishment of partnerships between the public and private sectors to accomplish the UN's comprehensive environmental and social agenda set out in its Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs").
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Countries Sign OECD Agreement on Corporate Financial Scrutiny
January 29, 2016
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has announced that 31 countries have signed its Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement providing for the automatic exchange of country-by-country financial, tax, and other information relating to multinational enterprises.
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ISO Seeks Use of Standard in SDG Implementation
January 29, 2016
The International Organization for Standardization ("ISO") has published an interview with academics seeking to explain how corporations following the organization's standard on social responsibility furthers their implementation of the environmental and social framework of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs").
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NGOs Call on UN Working Group to Investigate Fracking
January 27, 2016
Arguing that the practice of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") to produce natural gas places "virtually all human rights at risk," a group of individuals and nongovernmental organizations calls on the UN Working Group on business and human rights issues to guide governments and companies on the practice.
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Ireland's BHR Action Plan Falls Short of Activists' Demands
January 27, 2016
Describing key elements of Ireland's draft business and human rights ("BHR") national action plan, Dr. Shane Darcy of the National University of Ireland Galway emphasizes that the plan contains "little discussion of mandatory requirements" and does not include recommendations from BHR activist groups.
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