Business & Human Rights

  • AI Calls for Tax Crackdown to Fund Economic Rights

    February 18, 2015

    Amnesty International ("AI") has published an article calling on governments around the world to cooperate on pursuing the "bad guys" - multinational corporations seeking to structure transactions to avoid high taxes - in order to help fund economic, social, and cultural rights.

  • Academic: Tax Avoidance Has BHR Implications

    February 18, 2015

    At a recent conference in Dublin, lecturer Shane Darcy called for activists to place pressure on governments to clamp down on corporate tax avoidance in order to use the proceeds to promote the business and human rights ("BHR") agenda.

  • ICAR Calls for Unity Behind Diverging BHR Approaches

    February 18, 2015

    The Director of the International Corporate Accountability Roundtable ("ICAR") writes that in order to be successful in forcing companies and governments to recognize the global business and human rights ("BHR") agenda, activists must embrace both voluntary and binding BHR initiatives.

  • Activists Call for "Rigorous" BHR Accountability System

    February 11, 2015

    Following an adverse outcome for their clients, who oppose the construction of a mine in Bangladesh, at the U.K. National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, a group of activists has called for a "rigorous system of international accountability" for businesses on human rights issues.

  • Activists Push for Health Industry Divestment from Fossil Fuels

    February 11, 2015

    A report produced by climate activist groups calls for companies in the health industry to end their financial association, on moral grounds, with businesses that engage in the use of fossil fuels.

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