Results found: 15
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Angola: What are the top 5 priority issues that your government has taken steps to address?
Types of company impacts prioritised: Health (including environmental health, workplace health & safety) Forced labour & trafficking Sexual harassment Land rights and displacement Women’s rights Impacts on children, including child labour
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Colombia: Has your govt. adopted a National Action Plan on business & human rights?
The Colombian government does not yet have an Action Plan, though it has been carrying out preparatory work for two years and aims to have it ready by the end of 2015. From the work carried out by the Colombian government, worthy of note as a...
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El Salvador: What successful business & human rights actions has your govt. taken?
Consumer Protection Agency: Regarding the protection of the rights of consumers: Approval of the Medicines Act, which seeks to ensure the institutional framework that would ensure the accessibility, registration, quality, availability, efficiency and...
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El Salvador: Has your govt. undertaken new business & human rights actions since the UN Guiding Principles?
Types of company impacts prioritised: Land rights and displacement Housing Tax avoidance Women's rights Impacts on children, including child labour Indigenous groups and/or ethnic & racial minorities Other: Right to political participation
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El Salvador: Actions on land rights & displacement
The environmental courts were created in 2014.
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El Salvador: Actions on housing
With the entry into effect of the Special Act on subdivisions and plot divisions, the implementation of a mechanism has been sought that would enable the population to obtain legal certainty on the ownership of properties which they live in, particular...
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Guinea: What successful business & human rights actions has your govt. taken?
Yes, the government has taken initiatives in relation to human rights and business. These are reflected in the Guinean constitution, particularly freedom of initiative, freedom of enterprise and the right to safe, peaceful enjoyment of one's property....
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Guinea: What are the top 5 priority issues that your government has taken steps to address?
The government has taken several legislative and regulatory measures that take into account all the issues listed. The eight identified priority issues which have been adequately addressed are: Health (including environmental health, workplace health ...
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Guinea: Actions on land rights & displacement
As Guinea is a mining country, population displacements are common, dictated by which deposits are to be worked. However, these displacements comply with international standards, which take into account the principles of human rights.
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Mexico: What are the top 5 priority issues that your government has taken steps to address?
Types of company impacts prioritised: Health (including environmental health, workplace health & safety) Impacts on children, including child labour Land rights and displacement Women’s rights Indigenous groups and/or ethnic & racial minorities
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Mexico: Actions on land rights & displacement
Land rights: because organizations in the social sector of the economy have (Art. 11, subsection V, of the LESS) “social or equal ownership of the means of production” as another practice.
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Norway: What are the top 5 priority issues that your government has taken steps to address?
Types of company impacts prioritised: Forced labour & trafficking Discrimination Other core labour rights Land rights and displacement Access to water Operations in conflict zones Tax avoidance Women's rights Impacts on children Indigenous groups...
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Senegal: What successful business & human rights actions has your govt. taken?
The Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights were unanimously approved by the UN Human Rights Council in its Resolution 17/4, of 16 June 2011, implementing the United Nations “Protect, Respect and Remedy” Framework. At a regional level, certain...
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Tanzania: What successful business & human rights actions has your govt. taken?
1.1 Public enquiries on child labour were conducted in 2008/2009 with support from ILO, Tanzania office. The inquiries were combined with human rights monitoring and research on child labour. Covering three districts such as Temeke in Dar es Salaam,...
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Tanzania: What are the top 5 priority issues that your government has taken steps to address?
Types of company impacts prioritised: Discrimination Sexual harassment Land rights and displacement Housing Impacts on children, including child labour