Weekly Update: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre - 27 February 2008
CLICK THIS LINK FOR ALL TOP STORIES added past 7 days / Principales noticias / Articles de premier plan:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Topstories?date=2008/02/27
The top stories include / Las noticias incluyen / Les articles incluent:
* War on Want issues legal challenge to UK Govt. over failure to introduce law regulating private military & security companies
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/552164
* Yahoo! asks US Govt. to help free 2 imprisoned advocates in China, who were arrested after Yahoo! complied with Chinese investigators
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/856310
* BBC discussion on business, human rights & global standards, with Lisa Misol of Human Rights Watch & others
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/344047
* USA: Alaskan native villagers file lawsuit against oil & energy companies over flooding caused by climate change, & misleading information
- Defendants include BP America, Chevron, ConocoPhilips, ExxonMobil, Peabody Energy
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/593477
* Dem. Rep. of Congo: Companies consider options as govt. mining review demands increased revenue & social programmes
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/306979
* CIDSE (coalition of Catholic development agencies) submission to UN Special Representative John Ruggie
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/585560
* Orissa, India: ArcelorMittal pledges $250 million to resettle villagers who will be displaced by steel plant
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/719303
* Kazakhstan: Govt. gives ArcelorMittal a month to implement coal mine safety measures or could face closure
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/724732
* Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: 7 new countries become candidates
- Publish What You Pay says govts. & companies "must deliver" - Only 3 of 37 companies endorsing EITI have complied with reporting requirements: Chevron, Shell, StatoilHydro
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/958468
* Indonesia: Advocates call for stronger measures against tuberculosis discrimination in the workplace
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/979847
* India: New "Action Plan for Companies to Combat Child Labour"
- Developed by "Stop Child Labour - School is the best place to work" campaign, with input from unions, business, NGOs, ILO
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/440588
* Tate & Lyle sugar to be Fairtrade - biggest UK firm to do so
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/991231
* 2008 a "defining" year for business & human rights: Commentary by James Farrar
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/837447
* Paper by Doreen McBarnet, Oxford Univ., on increasing role of law in corporate social responsibility
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/814803
* New summary profiles of business & human rights lawsuits, provided by the Resource Centre: cases regarding Apartheid reparations; AngloGold Ashanti (re silicosis, So. Africa), BHP Billiton (re environment, Papua New Guinea) - other case profiles also available
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/489842
* Call for papers: Conference on business, human rights & intl. law - where next after Special Representative John Ruggie's final report? Copenhagen, 6-7 Nov 2008
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/528743
* Español: Colombia: Sindicato denuncia penalmente a C.I. Saceites por "violación a domicilios, faltas a la libertad sindical"
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/887947
* Español: México: A dos años de explosión en mina Pasta de Conchos, de Industrial Minera México, siguen bajo tierra 65 mineros y se critica la impunidad - Secretaría del Trabajo dice que no existen las condiciones para recuperar los cuerpos
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/685637
* Español: México: Foro sobre derechos laborales en la industria de la maquila en Puebla y Tlaxcala - 28 de febrero, UNAM, México D.F.
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/254240
* Español: Asepam (Asociación Española del Pacto Mundial de la ONU) dice que empresas españolas lideran presentación de informes al Pacto Mundial - ONGs y sindicatos escépticos
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/806632
* Français : Séminaire sur la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises dans l'espace francophone, Rabat, 28-29 février et 1 mars - organisé par l'association Francophone des Commissions Nationales des Droits de l'Homme
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/646927
* Français : GlaxoSmithKline baisse le prix de ses médicaments anti-sida pour les pays pauvres
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/896888
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