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Commentary: Blockchain technologies offer transparency that could improve human rights practices
Author: Dean Pinkert, James Ton-that & Ravi Soopramanien, OpenGlobalRights
Blockchains are generating excitement across industries due to their potential to improve supply chain transparency. Less well known is their capacity to help companies conform to supply chain integrity commitments required by the United Nations...
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Response from Unilever
Author: Prasad Pradhan, Hindustan Unilever Ltd
…The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore is an independent institution; any action taken by the institution against one of its faculty members, is their internal matter and it would not be appropriate for us to comment on this. ...
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Rwanda: Unilever provides clean water to improve the health and well-being of communities, especially women and children
Author: Michel Nkurunziza, The New Times (Rwanda)
"Featured: Uniliver’s project supplies clean water to 10,000 residents in Nyaruguru district " 21 January 2019...
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India: Hindustan Unilever Information Note on soil remediation at former thermometer factory in Kodaikanal
Author: Hindustan Unilever (HUL)
"Information Note: Soil remediation at our former thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, India", 5 December 2018...
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Author: Giulietta Gamberini, La Tribune (France)
« Déchets en plastiques : une nouvelle vague de multinationales se mobilise », 16 janvier 2019...
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Rule 15 submission to the Supreme Court regarding AAA & Others v Unilever Plc and Unilever Tea Kenya Limited A2/2017/0721
Author: Redress, International Commission of Jurists, SOMO, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights & Independent Medico-Legal Unit
We respectfully submit that the Supreme Court should consider the UK’s obligations under international law when considering whether to grant this application for leave to appeal......
India: Hindustan Unilever to proceed with mercury remediation plans at former factory site, activists oppose approved targets
Between August and November 2017, Hindustan Unilever Ltd. (HUL) conducted soil remediation trials at the site of its form thermometer factory in Kondaikanal, India. The trials were intended to address mercury contamination dating back to 2001. In Janu...
India: Civil society raises concerns over censure of IIM Bangalore professor in connection with statements about Hindustan Unilever’s environmental record
In October 2018, the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM-B), a leading business university, issued a censure against Associate Professor Deepak Malghan, requesting that he retract a statement encouraging management to disinvite Hindustan Uni...
Businesses cannot thrive without civic freedoms & accountable governance
Author: Bennet Freeman, Mauricio Lazala & Michael Ineichen in World Economic Forum's Agenda
"Why businesses are nothing without strong human rights", 16 Jan 2019...
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India: Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) failed to achieve even the ‘liberal’ 20 mg/kg mercury clean in Kodaikanal
Author: SV Krishna Chaitanya, The New Indian Express
"Unending fallout of defunct thermometer factory at Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu", 17 January 2018...
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