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27 Jul 2021, 4:15 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
” Media contact:Emily Ehrhorn, (202) 779-1814, eehrhorn@humanesociety.org   ## The Humane Society Legislative Fund is a social welfare organization incorporated under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code and formed in 2004 as a separate lobbying affiliate of The Humane Society of the United States. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 10:45 am by Ashley Deeks
The cynics underestimate both the enduring nature of human rights pressures on states and the benefits to states of creating new international legal rules in this area. [read post]
4 Nov 2008, 6:54 am by Communications and Public Affairs
Session 4 – Human Rights and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe fourth session addressed human rights and corporate social responsibility, with a special focus on CSR in Zambia’s mining sector. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 5:58 am
The plenary sessions of the 2014 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, held in Geneva on 2-3 December are being streamed live.Webcast:Webcast of the Forum (2 and 3 December)Documentation:ProgrammeRules of ProcedureRegistration and logisticsThe plenary sessions offered a glimpse of the future of the business of human rights in the international arena. [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 8:32 am by Dave Maass
EFF has been a civil society member of the multi-stakeholder human rights group since GNI was founded in 2008 to advance freedom of expression and privacy in the global information and communication technologies sector. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 7:17 pm
   The Civil Society Section of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has just distributed the Bulletin on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights - April 2014. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 5:55 am by Victor Kattan
But in the meantime, a consensus has developed across global civil society that ‘the apartheid crime’ continues to occur in another place: Palestine. [read post]
25 Dec 2014, 9:11 pm
(Backer, Larry Catá, Global Panopticism: States, Corporations and the Governance Effects of Monitoring Regimes. [read post]
12 Jun 2024, 7:57 am
At the international level, the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) remain the dominant framework of reference in the debate on corporate accountability, supplemented by the work of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights generally and many others. [read post]
2 Sep 2010, 1:13 am by Adam Wagner
The President of the Law Society has said human rights are an “increasingly a prominent risk factor in business”, but it is not clear what this really means, beyond corporate social responsibility which is at most seems a peripheral business consideration. [read post]
18 May 2024, 11:49 am
(GANHRI, 'Who We').The 2024 GANHRI Statement continues the traditional policy trajectories of the organization: (1) urging States to adopt and transpose  key human rights instruments; 82) furthering the project of legalizing the corporate responsibility to respect human rights through public law and policy based compliance measures; (3) extending the breadth of human rights to include sustainability issues (¶¶18-22);  (4) adding their… [read post]
6 Jul 2023, 10:17 am by Karel Frielink
But you and I are real people, human beings of flesh and blood, not zombies! [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 7:52 pm by Larry Catá Backer
Leading scholars who have researched and published in the area of socio-economic rights (especially those with expertise on China and/or India, or international human rights and development) will be presenting papers at this Conference. [read post]
18 Dec 2018, 11:55 am
According to Resolution 26/9, the Working Group has the mandate to: “elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in international human rights law, the activities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. [read post]
14 Feb 2020, 6:26 pm
It seeks to consult as widely as possible with all relevant stakeholders, including governments, civil society, business, investors, academia, national human rights institutions, trade unions, UN and other international organizations, and affected stakeholders and human rights defenders working on the ground. [read post]
13 Aug 2020, 8:40 am by IntLawGrrls
Shebani’s areas of interest include corporate law, commercial dispute resolution, human rights law and public international law. [read post]