Principles
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- UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
- ILO instruments
- ILO Tripartite Declaration
- ILO Declaration on fundamental principles & rights at work
- Guidelines prepared by NGOs
- Guidelines prepared by business
- Guidelines prepared by judges
- Intl. Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC)
- Intl. standards: General
- Other guidelines
- UN General Comment on child rights and business sector
- OECD Guidelines
- Montreux Document
- Kimberley Process
- Guidelines prepared by a govt
- Global Reporting Initiative
- Children's Rights and Business Principles
- Core intl. standards
- Geneva Conventions / Humanitarian law
- Global Network Initiative
- Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
- European Parliament code of conduct
- Equator Principles
- UN Global Compact
- UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights
- UN Sub-Commission Norms on business & human rights
- UN Principles for Responsible Investment
- UN Sustainable Development Goals / Millennium Development Goals
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Voluntary Principles on Security & Human Rights
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27 January 2019
New Guiding principles on human rights impact assessments of economic reforms
Author: UN Human Rights Council
"UN expert issues new guiding principles on economic reforms and human rights", 21 of January 2019...
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Building Responsibly Announces Worker Welfare Principles
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20 February 2017
Major agricultural lenders adopt social & environmental safeguards
Members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) announced at their regional meeting that they have formally adopted a set of jointly developed environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles. Under the principles, the members...
Article
17 February 2017
Agricultural lenders adopt social & environmental safeguards
Author: The Microfinance Gateway
"Major Agricultural Lenders Adopt Shared Social and Environmental Principles"...