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UN Releases "Toolkit" on Human Rights and Finance
December 17, 2014
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative has published guidance pressuring institutions in the finance sector to abide by the UN's business and human rights agenda in their transactions.
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Activist Calls for Courts to Open to Extraterritorial Claims
December 17, 2014
Sif Thorgeirsson of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has called for countries around the world to open their courts to claims against businesses for alleged human rights violations committed abroad.
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Citing Slow Progress of UNGPs, NGO Calls for Binding Treaty
December 17, 2014
Citing the "sparse" implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights ("UNGPs"), the nongovernmental organization ("NGO") IBON International has called for activists to focus on the development of a binding global treaty to prevent and remedy human rights violations by businesses.
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Groups Launch Ranking of BHR Performance
December 17, 2014
A group of nongovernmental organizations and businesses have announced the launch of a Corporate Human Rights Benchmark, which will investigate and rank the performance of 500 companies on implementing UN business and human rights ("BHR") standards.
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FIDH Calls for Expanded Regulation of Technology Exports
December 17, 2014
The International Federation for Human Rights ("FIDH") has published a report calling on the EU and the international community to increase restrictions on technology companies to keep them from selling their products to regimes that may use them to violate the human rights of their citizens.
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