Business & Human Rights

  • NGO Calls for U.S. NAP to Address Domestic Issues

    April 22, 2015

    As the U.S. develops its National Action Plan ("NAP") for implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("BHR"), the BHR Resource Centre argues that focusing the NAP on corporate conduct abroad is insufficient and that the U.S. should extend the NAP to domestic BHR issues.

  • BP Shareholders Pass Climate Transparency Resolution

    April 21, 2015

    As global campaigners seek to use activist shareholder resolutions to bind companies to the UN climate agenda, The Guardian reports that 98% of British Petroleum ("BP") shareholders have adopted a resolution requiring the company to publish more information regarding its efforts to counter global warming.

  • UN Puts Pressure on Businesses over "Climate Finance"

    April 20, 2015

    At a recent Washington, D.C. meeting on finance and climate change, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on businesses and governments to step up their support for the UN Green Climate Fund, which redistributes money to developing countries to support their efforts to combat and adapt to global warming.

  • NGOs Blame Businesses for Neglect of Youth Rights in Africa

    April 15, 2015

    The nongovernmental organizations Amnesty International and the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa have launched an initiative, labeled #AfricaNot4Sale, designed to demand "corporate accountability" for the nonrealization of so-called "economic, social, and cultural" human rights of young people in Africa.

  • UN Pushes ESG in Development Finance

    April 15, 2015

    In a recent panel at the Third International Financing for Development Conference at the UN, a UN Global Compact panel pushed for the consideration of environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") factors in investment decisions of governments and corporations.

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