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3 Jul 2022, 7:15 am
Writ large, the very same human frailties that ail legal business are those at work in the culture wars plaguing society today. [read post]
30 Jun 2022, 8:15 am
A broad participation of governments, businesses, civil society, trade unions, indigenous peoples, human rights defenders, academics, national human rights institutions, international organizations, and others is expected. [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 2:22 pm
The Symposium Summary nicely captures the spirit of the event: With a view to regulating business in the field of human rights, an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) has been negotiating an international binding treaty in business and human rights (BHR) since 2014. [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 12:41 pm
The Symposium Summary nicely captures the spirit of the event: With a view to regulating business in the field of human rights, an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG) has been negotiating an international binding treaty in business and human rights (BHR) since 2014. [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
Resisting Corporate Capture A Plaidoyer for a Binding Treaty from a Civil Society Perspective 23.06.2022 In 2014, the Human Rights Council adopted Resolution 26/9, which established, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, an intergovernmental body charged with the responsibility to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to address corporate-related human rights abuses – the Open-ended intergovernmental… [read post]
27 Jun 2022, 5:45 am
Here is the abstract: The multiple ways that artificial intelligence (AI) affects society has captured significant global attention. [read post]
26 Jun 2022, 2:03 pm
Speakers will provide a worldwide picture of the future of "The Metaverse as a Challenge to Classical IP”, including on re-imagining IP in this area in favour of both business and consumers/society. [read post]
25 Jun 2022, 1:38 pm
The cost of human rights due diligence (HRDD) can incentivize parent companies or international brands to transfer risky operations and HRDD responsibilities to others in their corporate group or supply chain. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 6:54 am
A draft corporate human rights and environmental due diligence directive is currently under consideration in the EU. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 8:25 am
Caught between Principles and Perfectionism Private International Law in the Proposed Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights 21.06.2022 One of the driving forces behind the movement towards a legally binding instrument on business and human rights (BHR) has been the need for effective remedies for victims of corporate human rights abuses. [read post]
23 Jun 2022, 4:53 am
Media contact: Emily Ehrhorn, HSLF/HSUS, 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]
22 Jun 2022, 9:09 pm
“The One Health concept aims at balancing and improving the health of humans, animals and the environment. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 9:05 pm
In 2021, 76 percent of Americans age 33 to 40 thought that climate change represented a serious risk to society. [read post]
22 Jun 2022, 11:15 am
The establishment of direct corporate liability through a binding and well-implemented international human rights treaty is likely to face similarly potent legal counterarguments. [read post]
21 Jun 2022, 5:01 am
Futurists and philosophers have long been imagining worlds in which super-powerful machines and computers dominate economics, politics, and society, and what that could mean for collective and individual humanity. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 1:09 pm
On the other hand, with a focus on remediating transnational corporate human rights abuses, governments and civil society organisations (CSO) are currently drafting a treaty within an Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIGWG).This negotiation process within the UN was established in 2014 and holds a mandate from the UN Human Rights Council ‘to elaborate an international legally binding instrument to regulate, in… [read post]
19 Jun 2022, 7:43 am
He has work experience with the U.S. government, the United Nations, the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and private consulting firms. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 7:03 pm
It is American society that is currently having the greatest impact on all other societies, prompt- ing a far reaching cumulative transformation in their outlook and mores.1 I. [read post]
15 Jun 2022, 9:01 pm
Since the adoption by the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum of The New Paradigm of Corporate Governance in 2016, stakeholder capitalism has been adopted in the 2020 Davos Manifesto, the Business Roundtable, the British Academy’s Future of the Corporation Project, the Enacting Purpose Initiative, the UK Financial Reporting Council and the Investor Stewardship Group. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 2:01 am
To this end, reference is made to the human right to health, which is widely acknowledged in both international and regional human rights instruments. [read post]
