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UN Calls for Business Promotion of "Empowerment Principles"
March 18, 2015
At a recent event at UN Headquarters, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on businesses to advance the organization's "Women's Empowerment Principles," a UN "roadmap" on how businesses can respect and promote women's rights as well as the UN's sustainability agenda.
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UN Calls for Fossil Fuel Divestment
March 18, 2015
As it prepares for a global climate change conference in Paris in December 2015, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change has called for financiers to drop their investments in fossil fuel assets, ignoring warnings from energy representatives that such divestment will not encourage cleaner technologies.
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London Assembly Votes for Fossil Fuel Divestment
March 18, 2015
The London Assembly has passed a nonbinding motion calling on Mayor Boris Johnson to consider dropping the London Pension Fund Authority's investments in coal, oil, and gas.
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Coca-Cola Publishes Assessments of Sugar Supply Chain
March 18, 2015
As pressure from nongovernmental and international organizations calling for companies to adopt the UN business and human rights agenda grows, The Coca-Cola Company has published its first country-specific "human rights due diligence studies" on its sugar supply chains in Colombia and Guatemala.
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NGO: Corporate Taxes Necessary for Equality, Democracy
March 18, 2015
The nongovernmental organization Tax Justice Network has released a publication calling taxes on corporations essential to achieve political and economic equality and to "rebalance distorted economies."
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