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Two Elephants in the Indian CSR Room: time to focus on business impacts and state duties 20 August 2013 | by Mark Hodge Executive Director of the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights, Mark Hodge, examines the shortcomings of India's new Companies Bill, which overlooks two key factors that must be addressed to ensure the protection and respect of human rights in India's economic sphere.

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Threatening Behaviour by Lucy

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The question of how to regulate certain forms of harmful speech in the digital realm without restricting legitimate speech and debate is an on-going controversy that affects every country in the world differently. What appears to be a global problem, however, is threats of violence directed towards women online, in particular the rise in visibility of threats to rape and kill. Female journalists and campaigners have also received bomb threats via social media.

Freedom Online, Tunisia: Revolution and Revelations 15 July 2013 | by Lucy Purdon The third Freedom Online conference held recently in Tunisias capital city, Tunis, was dominated not by discussion of Tunisias 2011 revolution, when the Internet contributed to bringing about regime change and sparked the Arab Spring, but instead by the global fallout from revelations of the US National Security Agencys (NSA) surveillance and data gathering practices.

IHRB Submits Comments to Mazars and Shift 29 July 2013 IHRB has submitted comments to Mazar and Shift on a project to develop global reporting and assurance standards for companies to comply with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

The Nairobi Process Meeting Report 26 July 2013 Update on latest developments with the IHRB facilitated Nairobi Process and appointment of East Africa Programme Manager Rose Kimotho.

Will businesses ever be persuaded to respect human rights? 28 June 2012 Can the many reporting requirements, guiding principles and codes of conduct be effective in getting business to respect human rights? A debate between Amnesty International UK's Economic Relations Programme Director, Peter Frankentalm, and Frances House, IHRB's Director of Programmes...
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