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How can digital technology support gender equality in the MENA region?
Author: NewsRoom
Closing the skills gap by training women in leadership and developing women’s business skills will facilitate the creation of start-up businesses and generate thousands of jobs that will transform the economy of the region....
The B Team releases research that shows limits on civic freedoms are linked to negative economic outcomes
Author: The B Team (USA)
"The business case for protecting civic rights", 15 Oct 2018...
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Norwegian wealth fund to exclude co's over recruitment practices that violate workers' rights in the Middle East
Author: Camilla Knudsen, Reuters
"Norway's wealth fund may blacklist firms over recruitment practices", 9 Jan 2018...
Strategic litigation on forced labour could lead the way for structural change in global supply chains, says NGO
Author: Linde Bryk & Claudia Müller-Hoff, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), on Oxford Human Rights Hub (UK)
“Of Slaves and Slave Masters: Strategic Litigation to Address Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains”, 6 Sep 2017...
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Commentary: US Alien Tort Statute & corporate liability in Arab Bank lawsuit over alleged complicity in financing terrorism
Author: Amy Howe, SCOTUS Blog (USA)
“An introduction to the Alien Tort Statute and corporate liability: In Plain English”, 24 Jul 2017...
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