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Article Seeks G20 Push for Climate Regulation in Finance
December 09, 2015
An article published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") argues that the G20 group of countries should press members to adopt regulations that manage the risks of global warming to the financial sector.
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UN Pushes Businesses to Adopt BHR Policies
December 09, 2015
The UN Global Compact has published the second edition of its business guide on "How to Develop a Human Rights Policy," in which it asserts that such a policy is "a company's public expression of its commitment to meet its responsibility to respect" the UN- and activist-promoted global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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Advocates Press for "Action Plans" to Further BHR Agenda
December 09, 2015
Representatives from the Danish Institute for Human Rights and the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable have published an article calling for further development of "national action plans" ("NAPs") to advance the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda and for a review mechanism to hold governments to account in implementing their NAPs.
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Professors Call for Contracts to Enforce BHR Standards
December 08, 2015
Professor James Gathii and Associate Professor Ibironke Odumosu-Ayanu argue that a new model of enforcement of contractual obligations could provide a remedy to people alleging business and human rights ("BHR") violations in the operations of companies in the extractive industry.
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Academic Argues for Strengthening of State Duties on BHR
December 08, 2015
Professor and former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Olivier de Schutter writes that countries should work toward a binding business and human rights ("BHR") treaty that establishes a government duty to implement the BHR agenda domestically and abroad and to cooperate to ensure a remedy for alleged victims of BHR violations.
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