Results for Human Rights
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March 26, 2020- Coronavirus: Banks under fire for loan tactics
- Coronavirus: Industry sees chance to undo plastic bag bans
- Investors write to businesses calling for action on human rights
- Business giants including Coca-Cola pledge to deliver 'net-positive' water impact
- England could face droughts in 20 years due to climate breakdown
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March 23, 2020- Coronavirus: World's most vulnerable in 'third wave' for support, warn experts
- Coronavirus: Twitter bans 'unsafe' advice about the outbreak
- Costco, Prada and Starbucks challenged on human rights disclosures
- Only a third of firms measure climate impact of IT operations
- UK's carbon footprint 21% below peak levels, latest Government figures show
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March 11, 2020- Coronavirus: Banks to allow customers to defer mortgage payments
- Human rights activist 'forced to flee DRC' over child cobalt mining lawsuit
- Ecosystems the size of Amazon 'can collapse within decades'
- Comprehensive net-zero strategy could increase UK green jobs by 85%
- Iceland slashes plastics packaging by almost one-third in two years
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March 02, 2020- Plastic Leak Project launches new measure for plastic pollution across corporate value chains
- Norway wealth fund could blacklist four major climate culprits
- ANZ pays Cambodian families hurt by project it funded
- OVO teams up with Mini to offer EV drivers up to '5,000 free green miles'
- Irish energy giant ESB signs loan linked to CO2 and renewables goals
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February 25, 2020- Apple may be forced to disclose censorship requests from China
- World's largest mining firms 'selectively reporting' on positive sustainability progress
- UK’s top pension scheme tackles Barclays on climate change
- Alphabet faces investor backlash over human rights policies
- Green finance first touches down in the aviation industry
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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