Colombia: Académicos detectan mercurio en leche materna en zona impactada por...
El uso de mercurio en la minería no solo afecta a los ecosistemas ni a las personas que lo manipulan. También a las comunidades que viven en dichas zonas…Así lo evidenció el estudio Modelo de...
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View ArticleSustainable Development Goals and Human Rights Conference 2017
In cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Institute for Development Research and Development Policy (IEE), Ruhr-University Bochum, and the Centre for...
View ArticleAccess to Remedy in National Action Plans to Implement the UNGPs: Are States...
Access to effective remedies is a key component of the UN Guiding Principles of Business and the Human Rights (UNGPs). Despite an impressive uptake of the UNGPs by almost all stakeholders, the victims...
View ArticleColombie : Novartis conteste devant la Cour suprême l'émission d’une...
« Novartis attaque la Colombie en justice », 23 mai 2017 …[Novartis] a confirmé mardi qu’il conteste devant la Cour suprême de Bogota la décision gouvernementale unilatérale d’émettre une déclaration...
View ArticleGuide on "How to respect privacy and free expression as a tech SME in Kenya"
"How to respect privacy and free expression as a tech SME in Kenya" This guide is designed to help small and medium tech enterprises ensure that they are respecting privacy and free expression in your...
View ArticleGuide on "How to respect privacy and free expression as a tech SME in Kenya"
Global Partners Digital has published a guide' for tech SMEs, titled How to respect privacy and free expression as a tech SME in Kenya. The guide covers the business case for respecting privacy and...
View ArticleGuinée: Les forces de l'ordre délogent les orpailleurs clandestins qui...
"Arrestations d’orpailleurs dans le nord-est de la Guinée", 25 mai 2017 Un nombre indéterminé de ressortissants ouest-africains, en majorité des Burkinabè, qui s'adonnent à l'exploitation clandestine...
View ArticleGlobal: Fondo de Pensiones de Noruega excluye empresas por contaminación...
“Excluyen a Petrochina del Fondo de Pensiones de Noruega por riesgos de corrupción” – 26 de mayo de 2016 El Fondo de Pensiones de Noruega…ha excluido y puesto en observaciones a compañías que fabrican...
View ArticleZimbabwe: 8 small-scale miners feared dead after a mine shaft collapsed in...
"8 feared dead in Mazowe mine collapse", 24 May 2017 Eight small scale miners are feared dead after a mine shaft collapsed in Masasa area in Mazowe on Monday night. Four people are said to have been...
View ArticleAs Iran and U.S. Leaders Trade Barbs, Big Deals Proceed
President Trump, who has never made a secret of his hostility toward Iran, called recently for a grand regional strategy among Sunni nations to isolate the country. But Tehran received that threat...
View ArticleAdidas uses technology to improve workers' conditions; hotlines and apps...
"Adidas's slavery buster hopes app can help give workers a voice", 29 May 2017 Adidas executive Aditi Wanchoo is on a mission - to wipe out any slavery in the German sportswear company’s supply chain,...
View ArticleGhana: Two labour unions lead protests against alleged poor working...
"Two labour unions protest poor working conditions in Accra and Tema", 19 May 2017 Two groups of workers in Tema and Accra...demonstrated against poor working conditions and called for better wages....
View ArticleGhana: Govt. orders small-scale mining company to shut down; Russian and...
"Small-scale mining company shut down; Russian, Ukrainian operators arrested", 22 May 2017 Following a tour of some mining sites, Lands and Natural Resources Minister, John Peter Amewu, has ordered the...
View ArticleEU adopts new anti-tax avoidance rules
The European Union has formally adopted new rules to prevent tax avoidance via non-EU countries... Rules preventing so-called hybrid mismatches are intended to stop companies from dodging the taxman...
View ArticleEU adopts directive halting multinational tax avoidance through hybrid...
Today the Council of the European Union adopted a directive amending EU directive 2016/1164 as regards hybrid mismatches with third countries (also known as ATAD 2)... “Our aim here is to tackle one...
View ArticleMballing - Explosion d'une chaudière d'une fabrique de farine de poisson : Un...
L’explosion de la chaudière de l’usine de production de farine et d’huile de poissons, Copelite Afrique de Mballing...a fait un mort...et 18 blessés...Les pertes matérielles sont estimées à 900...
View ArticleUn mort dans l'explosion d’une usine de farine de poisson : Oumar Guèye...
Suite à l’explosion d’une chaudière à Copelit Afrique qui a fait un mort et 18 blessés...le ministre de la Pêche et de l’Économie maritime s’est [rendu] sur les lieux. Selon Oumar Guèye, l’usine n’a...
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