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IKEA Embraces Forest “Sustainability” in NGO Partnership
January 16, 2019
A briefing from the environmental organization WWF describes its partnership with furniture company IKEA to promote “responsible forest management” as a way “to contribute to a sustainable global economy,” as part of the trend among companies to embrace the “sustainability” agenda to avoid criticism by activists.
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Report Seeks More Precise Regulation of Corporate Rights Impacts
January 16, 2019
A group of nongovernmental organizations has commissioned a report aggregating research on costs to businesses of failing to implement a human rights “due diligence” regime and calling for “a more precise regulation of corporate responsibility” to prevent negative business impacts on human rights.
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Law Professor Calls for UN Chief to Investigate Khashoggi Murder
January 15, 2019
Professor Steven Ratner of the University of Michigan Law School calls for UN Secretary-General António Guterres to launch an investigation of the murder of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, arguing that a UN report on the murder could lead to appropriate sanctions of senior-level officials suspected of involvement in the murder plot.
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Yemen Receives Post on UN Women’s Board
January 15, 2019
Patrick Goodenough reports that Yemen was elected Vice President of an executive board managing the UN Women agency for “gender equality and women’s empowerment,” even though a recent World Economic Forum report ranked the country last out of 149 countries in gender equality.
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NGOs Demand “Civil Rights Ombudsman” at Facebook
January 15, 2019
A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a letter placing responsibility on the leaders of Facebook for “bigotry and hatred towards vulnerable communities” on its platform and calling for the tech giant to appoint “an independent and permanent civil rights ombudsman” to review the impacts of Facebook’s policies.
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