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HUMAN RIGHTS
The business and human rights debate is increasing in intensity. Privatization of public functions, as well as the global nature of corporate activity, leave human rights subject to impact. In domestic and international fora, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights is being developed. Such a respect includes conducting due diligence, building accountability and grievance mechanisms and ensuring that corporate disclosures consider social as well as financial criteria.
Business leaders recognize the importance of such considerations, and are working actively with governments and human rights groups to develop a set of understandings pertaining to business activity and human rights. The debate needs more voices and perspectives.
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Benghazi will feel safe from this time on. Civilians in Benghazi, Libyas second-largest city, are at grave risk, Human...
worse. Imagine a tribunal before which governments appear to face the world's judgment on their respect for human...
PARIS -- The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that crucifixes are acceptable in public school classrooms.
with our national values. The seeming collision of American interests was evident in 2009, when the State Departments...
civilians.""Col Gaddafi, and those who still stand by him, continue to grossly and systematically abuse the...
story of torture and imprisonment during Brazils dictatorship has informed a determination to adopt a stronger stance...
Duvalier, the former dictator known as Baby Doc, and is living quietly here while courts iron out pending human rights...
or Mutawa���a. ���The package was mostly for the military, security and religious establishments,��� said Jaafar...
is likely to increase tensions and is counter-productive, according to Eric Avebury, vice-chairman of the U.K.
down, the United Nations Security Council and others imposed economic and diplomatic sanctions. Mr. Gbagbo then began...
will feel safe from this time on. Civilians in Benghazi, Libyas second largest city, are at grave risk, Human Rights...
Colonel Qaddafi and those who still stand by him continue to grossly and systematically abuse the most fundamental...
to label the opposition as being acolytes of the Iranians, Lord Eric Avebury, vice-chair of the UK Parliamentary Human...
its commitment to democratic rule. The military, said Heba Morayef, a researcher on Egypt for , is routinely abusing...
Government commission exploring the case for a British bill of rights is divided between human rights act supporters...
The UK should obey rulings from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to set a good example to the Middle East,...
his apartment filled with tanks, the hospitals around town packed with the wounded. Mr. Maskati is a 24-year-old human...
The government ordered Andrei Yurov, a Russian human rights activist, to leave the country on Thursday, a Belarussian...
peaceful meeting of elders in North Waziristan, a Pakistani tribal region and Taliban stronghold. "In complete...
President Bashar al-Assad by fostering the emergence of a robust, independent and self-sustaining civil society.
with 90% wanting governments to compel companies to conduct equal pay audits. Last year, the UK Equality and Human...
civil society. According to a report released in January, the Syrian authorities were among the worst violators of...
1991 and then watching them be slaughtered by Saddam. 2) Obamas repeated pledges that he stands for universal human...
The government ordered Andrei Yurov, a Russian human rights activist, to leave the country on Thursday, a Belarussian...
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