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Academics Seek University Fossil Fuel Divestment
April 14, 2015
The Guardian reports that a group of academics, called Academics Stand Against Poverty, has issued a statement calling for universities and financial trusts to remove their investments from the fossil fuel industry in order to prevent global warming.
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NGO Produces BHR Guide to South Africa
April 14, 2015
The Danish Institute for Human Rights and the South African Human Rights Commission have published a Human Rights and Business ("BHR") Country Guide to South Africa as part of the global effort to push businesses and governments to advance the UN's BHR agenda.
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Law Firm Launches BHR Due Diligence Project
April 13, 2015
The law firm Norton Rose Fulbright and the British Institute of International and Comparative Law have launched a project that will examine "best practices" for corporations in performing "due diligence" to implement the international business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.
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NGO Pushes Companies on Coal Use and Human Rights
April 13, 2015
Pushing the link between climate change and human rights as advocated at the UN and among climate activists, the nongovernmental organization Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has publicly contacted 20 companies regarding their generation of energy through "sub-critical coal."
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Guardian Seeks Shift to "Socially Responsible" Investments
April 13, 2015
Neil Berkett of the Guardian Media Group ("GMG") details how GMG has recently sought to implement the UN's social and environmental agenda and is now planning to divest from fossil fuels in order to combat global warming.
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