Weekly Update - 17 December 2014

Climate action must respect rights

• political leaders called on private sector to do more to reduce emissions
• commentary on conference outcome: "Rights of Present and Future Generations at Risk After Lima" (CIEL - Center for International Environmental Law)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

Lawrence Hurley, Reuters

Institute for Human Rights and Business

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO)

•  including on the role of states; the right to privacy in the digital age; sustainable development goals and business & human rights; and more

Standard Digital (Kenya)

• we invited Senhuile to respond - it indicated it will do so; we will include its response in a future Update

The Citizen (Tanzania)

Associated Press; IndustriALL

Bloomberg

O Globo

Harpreet Kaur of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre; Reuters; Inc.com; Firstpost; Press Trust of India; Livemint; Time; Times Network

3S Rivers Protection Network (Cambodia) and others

• we invited project developers China Huaneng Group (parent of Hydrolancang Intl. Energy), Royal Group & Vietnam Electricity to respond - they did not

Huffington Post Korea; Hankyoreh

• we invited Samsung to respond; response provided

Cambodia Daily

Tengrinews (Kazakhstan)

• we invited KPO to respond; response provided
• also available in Russian

European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR); Privacy Intl.

• ECCHR plans to appeal decision
• also available in German

Independent (UK)

Kav LaOved

• also available in Arabic

BBC Newsnight

• workshop on implementation of UN Guiding Principles (Copenhagen, 23-24 Jan)
• event on challenges & opportunities after impact assessments (London, 4 Feb)
• responsible sourcing summit (West Hollywood, 3-4 March)
• capacity building workshops on business & human rights (Aarhus, 9-10 March)
• seminar on ethical sourcing (New York, 26-27 March)

• War on Want (TTIP Campaigner)
• Social Accountability Intl. (CEO)
• Hyatt (Sustainability Analyst)

Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Ecuador

• Las 6 organizaciones detrás de esta iniciativa son: Centro de Información sobre Empresas y Derechos Humanos; EIRIS; Aviva Investors; Calvert Investments; VBDO; Instituto de Derechos Humanos y Empresas

Gestión (Perú)

Jornadanet.com (Bolivia)

Empresa de Energía del Pacífico

ComunicaRSE

El Debate (México)

ACAN-EFE

Africa Info dans AllAfrica

Sherpa & Communauté RSE et PED

Aminata.com (Guinée)

CCFD-Terre Solidaire (France)

Laurence Loubières, Projet (France)

RSE Sénégal