Weekly Update: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre - 28 November 2007
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=2007/11/28
The top stories include / Las noticias incluyen / Les articles incluent:
* India: Supreme Court stalls Vedanta's bauxite project in Orissa due to environmental, displacement concerns
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/366926
* Guinea: Rio Tinto Alcan partners with UNDP, govt. and local NGO to encourage progress towards Millennium Development Goals
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/602989
* World AIDS Day: 1 Dec 2007 - how the private sector is addressing & failing to address the crisis
- Special webpage will be updated daily until the event
- Refers to positive steps by Standard Chartered, Virgin, Coca-Cola, Quality Chemical Industries, Cipla, Electricity Company of Ghana, CEOs of 20 Kenyan companies, others
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/WorldAIDSDay2007
* Tanzania: Human rights & poverty concerns regarding Barrick Gold mine raised during Canadian Prime Minister's visit to the country
- Article includes comments by Barrick Gold
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/225103
* Amnesty USA & investor coalition call on investment firms that own stock in oil companies in Sudan to press for change in Darfur
- Includes responses of 10 investment firms; 31 others have not responded
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/531502
* India: Extensive study finds employment discrimination persists against Muslims and Dalits
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/843362
* Hungary: Korean company Hankook Tire fined for labour abuses, govt. cancels subsidy
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/600169
* Saudi Arabia: 40 killed in Aramco gas pipeline blast - mostly So. Asian immigrant workers
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/592602
* As India emerges as economic power, "firms cannot be silent on human rights", says Arvind Ganesan of Human Rights Watch
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/531959
* Google to invest "hundreds of millions" of dollars developing renewable energy technologies
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/319211
* So. Korean Natl. Human Rights Commission raises concerns about electronic monitoring of employees by companies
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/895608
* Business & climate change:
- Carbon Disclosure Project: Indian & So. African companies' records in combating climate change
- Confederation of British Industry report urges companies to address climate change - article includes NGO reaction
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/868395
* Español: México: Encuesta encuentra que 80% de profesionistas sufren discriminación laboral - la mayoría por su edad
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/178235
* Español: México: Cemefi y El Economista lanzan suplemento mensual sobre Responsabilidad Social
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/668653
* Français : Guinée : Rio Tinto Alcan dans un partenariat avec le gouvernement et le PNUD pour appuyer l'atteinte des Objectifs du millénaire pour le développement
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/261380
* Français : France : Sanctions financières «importantes» prévues pour l'égalité salariale des femmes
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/881295
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