Results for Human Rights
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February 21, 2020- UK watchdog to scrutinise how companies and auditors calculate climate risk
- Germans divided over plans for Tesla electric car factory
- Delta Air Lines, Aldi, HSBC lead way in Stop Slavery Award
- UK Government to extend dormant accounts scheme to insurance
- Every country on Earth failing to provide world fit for children, landmark report warns
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February 13, 2020- Task Force for Climate-related Disclosures surpasses 1,000 global supporters
- Unilever to stop advertising ice cream to children
- Slavery not considered a crime for almost half the countries in the world, says new report
- Environmental degradation on course to cost global economy £8 trillion by 2050
- New rankings show boost in demand for sustainable cotton as Adidas claims the top spot
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February 07, 2020- Brazil's Bolsonaro unveils bill to allow commercial mining on indigenous land
- U.S. corporate giants condemn anti-LGBT laws as economic 'risk'
- Lego to ditch virgin fossil plastics by 2030
- Female genital mutilation hurts economies, says WHO
- Climate change fears put US gas utilities on defensive
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February 06, 2020- BlackRock rebukes Siemens on its environmental record
- Consumers keen to drop brands that damage the environment
- Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
- UK taxpayers funding African fossil fuel projects worth $750m
- U.N. sees 'major progress' on forced labour in Uzbek cotton harvest
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February 03, 2020- Legal & General vow to pressure chairman CEOs
- As coronavirus misinformation spreads on social media, Facebook removes posts
- Trump declares anti-human trafficking push but some stay away
- Climate breakdown 'is increasing violence against women'
- Gender pay gap widens in four UK government departments
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January 21, 2020- PwC poll reveals concerns about climate change has “soared up the CEO agenda”
- Climate refugees can't be returned home, says landmark UN human rights ruling
- Half a billion people struggle to find adequate paid work
- Global resource use smashes past 100 billion tonnes
- PayPal teams up with U.S. group to combat human trafficking
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December 23, 2019- Fund manager defends backing blacklisted Chinese surveillance firm
- FTSE leaves coal and oil firms and G4S on ethical investment list
- Landmark ruling that Holland must cut emissions to protect citizens from climate change upheld by supreme court
- Tesco suspends Chinese supplier after suspected prisoner message
- Geothemal energy market heats up with Climeon and Geo40 partnership
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December 17, 2019- Apple and Google named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths
- Germany to raise carbon price to 25 euros in 2021
- Major companies pledge jobs and education for refugees
- Shell links $10bn credit facility to low-carbon progress
- Apple shareholders set to vote on human-rights policies
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December 12, 2019- Saudi Aramco becomes world’s most valuable company despite climate fears
- Under 10 percent of UK CEOs are paid to tackle climate change
- Top hotels sued for 'industry-wide failures' to prevent U.S. sex trafficking
- Multinationals get behind SDG food drive in UK
- OVO secures approval for £500m SSE Energy Services deal to drive net-zero strategy
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December 10, 2019- British power plant promises to go carbon negative by 2030
- Deadly factory fire highlights dangers facing India's migrant workers
- Shipping firm MSC joins list of top 10 EU polluters
- Climate change is most important issue for 18-25 year olds globally
- Europe to sell avocados with an edible coating for the first time