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RB Joins Global Campaign Toward Tax Clampdown
August 25, 2017
In a victory for nongovernmental organization Oxfam's global pressure campaign toward reducing corporate tax "loopholes" to fund the global economic, social, and cultural rights agenda, consumer goods company RB has called on governments to introduce new rules clamping down on corporate tax avoidance.
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ISO Releases Standard for "Learning Providers"
August 24, 2017
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released a new international standard providing "minimum requirements for internationally agreed levels of quality learning services" for providers outside formal, national education systems.
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ISO Standard Targets Construction Impacts on Environment
August 24, 2017
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has created a new system of standards for builders worldwide to disclose a construction project’s lifelong “environmental footprint.”
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New ILO Body to Explore Social Justice in Employment
August 24, 2017
The UN International Labour Organization (ILO) has established the Global Commission on the Future of Work to “provide the analytical basis for the delivery of social justice in the 21st century” amidst rapid changes in the global economy and employment.
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UN Agent Criticizes EU, Italian Migrant Policy
August 24, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard has called on the Italian government and the EU to fulfill international human rights obligations to rescue migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean Sea and prevent their return to "appalling" conditions in Africa.
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