Results for Human Rights
Daily Media Briefing
July 30, 2020- Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google face claims of 'harmful' power
- Primark kicks off nationwide clothes recycling scheme
- One in three children have dangerous levels of lead in their blood
- ‘Criminalising’ dissent and martial law fuel attacks on Filipino environmental defenders
- Quarter of native UK mammals at imminent risk of extinction
Daily Media Briefing
July 24, 2020- Nature protection critical to preventing pandemics, study finds
- Amount of plastic spewed into ocean on track to triple by 2040
- Labour abuse fears rise for Thai migrant workers in Israel under new deal
- America's oldest conservation group denounces racism of its founder
- £350 million commitment to fuel green recovery in the UK
Daily Media Briefing
July 23, 2020- Apple and Nike among companies urged to cut 'China Uighur ties'
- Fiat sites raided in German diesel-emission investigation
- Apple commits to be 100 percent carbon neutral for its supply chain and products by 2030
- Best- and worst-case scenarios of climate change less likely than thought
- Bank of the West launches new account designed for climate action
Daily Media Briefing
July 13, 2020- UN Secretary-General: Coal has no place in COVID-19 recovery plans
- Japan vows to slash financing of coal power in developing world
- Indonesian lawmakers to probe pulpwood firm’s dispute with indigenous group
- Cambodia tightens repression under virus cover according to rights groups
- Covid-induced food insecurity has exposed underinvestment in food tech, says sustainability entrepreneur
Daily Media Briefing
July 07, 2020- Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok among firms 'pausing' police help in Hong Kong
- Fujitsu announces permanent work-from-home plan
- Fear over rise in animal-to-human diseases
- Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by climate crisis
- Covid-19 lockdown gives rise to deforestation across Asia and South America
Daily Media Briefing
July 02, 2020- Novartis reaches $642m settlement with US authorities
- New laws in Singapore appear to give employers ‘almost unfettered power’ over migrant workers’ movements, say NGOs
- Up to 1.6 million new jobs could be created through green Covid-19 recovery
- Rainforest Alliance aims to help ethical growers get climate-smart
- UN agrees to airlines' Covid-19 pleas on offsetting scheme
Daily Media Briefing
June 29, 2020- Coca-Cola suspends social media advertising despite Facebook changes
- Business giants vow to build back better post-Covid-19
- World’s biggest renewables firms earn abysmal scores on human rights performance
- Coronavirus weakens defences against Indonesian forest fires as severe haze risk deemed 'moderate'
- Green Investment Group and Enso Energy team up on 1GW solar-plus-storage pipeline
Daily Media Briefing
June 19, 2020- Companies give employees the day off to celebrate Juneteenth
- Colgate reviews China's Darlie brand amid Black Lives Matter movement
- Businesses urged to give refugees more jobs in Covid-19 era
- Farfetch's new tool to highlight the environmental impact of clothing
- Lyft pledges to shift its two million drivers to electric vehicles by 2030
Daily Media Briefing
June 18, 2020- Aunt Jemima joined by Uncle Ben and Mrs Butterworth in racial review
- World has six months to avert climate crisis, says energy expert
- Justice Department urges rolling back legal shield for tech companies
- Logitech to roll out carbon labelling
- World’s biggest liquid air battery starts construction in UK
Daily Media Briefing
June 17, 2020- Norway wealth fund must have wider human rights view when blacklisting firms: commission
- Technology leaders lobby Prime Minister to fund £100m AI, climate, and energy centre
- Investor coalition unveils plans for new climate change lobbying framework
- Ikea planning to repay furlough payments
- UN warns coronavirus may push millions of children into underage labour