Empowering Women to participate fully in economic life across all sectors and throughout all levels of economic activity is essential to: Build strong economies; Establish more stable and just societies; Achieve internationally agreed goals for development, sustainability and human rights Propel businesses’ operations and goals. Yet, ensuring the inclusion of women’s talents, skills, experience and [...]
New Guiding Principles on Business and human rights endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council
Thursday, June 16th, 2011From The United Nations GENEVA – In an unprecedented step, the United Nations Human Rights Council has endorsed a new set of Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights* designed to provide -for the first time- a global standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impacts on human rights linked to business activity. “The Council’s endorsement establishes [...]
Corporate Progress on Environmental and Social Issues is Tangible, But Far from Sufficient, Global Survey Shows
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011By: United Nations Global Impact When it comes to broad implementation of responsible business practices, company size matters most. And while businesses around the world seem to be making tangible progress in addressing environmental concerns, many continue to struggle in the human rights and anti-corruption arena. These are among the findings of the UN Global [...]
Tories left oilsands data out of UN climate report
Monday, May 30th, 2011By: Mike De Souza, Postmedia News The federal government has acknowledged that it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands industry in 2009 from a recent 567-page report on climate change that it was required to submit to the United Nations. The numbers, uncovered by Postmedia News, [...]
Indigenous peoples’ forum opens at UN with call to turn rights into reality
Monday, May 16th, 2011From: UN News Centre The annual United Nations forum aimed at advancing the rights of the estimated 370 million indigenous persons around the world opened today with a call to turn those rights into a practical reality. More than 1,300 delegates are expected to participate in the two-week Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is [...]
UN Creates New Structure for Empowerment of Women
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011UNITED NATIONS PRESS RELEASE For immediate release Press contact: Charlotte Scaddan, +1 917-367-9378, scaddan[at]un.org United Nations, New York, 2 July 2010 — In an historic move, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously today to create a new entity to accelerate progress in meeting the needs of women and girls worldwide. The establishment of the [...]
Talisman Enegry’s Comment To Drafts Guided Principals
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Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’
Monday, November 22nd, 2010Author: Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Business and Human Rights, Professor John Ruggie Dated: 22 Nov 2010 Today…Professor John Ruggie, posted the draft “Guiding Principles for the Implementation of the UN ‘Protect, Respect and Remedy’ Framework” on his online consultation forum. The forum, intended to gather views from a broad range of [...]
A U.N. Snub is a Badge of Honour
Tuesday, November 16th, 2010Wall Street Journal|Oct. 20th 2010 Life must be very good in Canada, or at least dull, judging by the domestic reaction to its failed bid last week for a temporary seat on the U.N. Security Council. Listen to the yowls in the papers north of the border: “A nation reeling,” “humiliating defeat,” “a rebuke from [...]