Weekly Update

Calls for action to tackle corporate tax avoidance

• Oxfam calls for a World Tax Summit to prioritise rights & needs of citizens over profits of firms
• African Union report calls for tackling tax avoidance in Africa; billions lost deny people’s access to crucial services
• Transparency Intl. recommends extending country-by-country reporting for all EU firms to promote tax transparency

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Intl. Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) & Intl. Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ESCR-Net)

PODER

Shift, Mazars, Human Rights Resource Centre (for ASEAN)

Guardian (UK)

Intl. Consortium of Investigative Journalists

World Bulletin

Reuters

Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

Al Jazeera

Associated Press; New York Times

• project developer was Conduit Capital Partners

Phnom Penh Post; Cambodia Daily

• we invited the company to respond - it did not

Rainforest Action Network & others

• alleges significant implementation problems & unresolved land conflicts
• we invited Asia Pulp & Paper to respond - response provided

Guardian (UK)

Eco-Business

• "Europe must continue to lead on CSR", says Richard Howitt MEP
• NGOs call for human rights to be at heart of EU CSR strategy
• includes video coverage of day 1

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO); CEE Bankwatch

• Mongolian herders file complaint with EBRD alleging pollution & displacement by iron ore mine
• Romania: EBRD suspends loan for coal plant over failure to conduct full environmental impact assessment

Mancunian Matters (UK)

• focus on investment in Rio Tinto - we invited Rio Tinto to respond but it did not

Who Profits

• we invited Egged Cooperative & Afikim to repsond but they did not

Al-Monitor

Amnesty Intl. & Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

Intl. Corporate Accountability Roundtable (ICAR)

• 6th Alternative Mining Indaba (Cape Town, 9-12 Feb)
• panel on human rights risks around mine security (Cape Town, 11 Feb)
• call for applications to education programme on civil resistance (online, 16 Feb)
• webinar on multi-sectoral approaches to combating online child exploitation (online, 18 Feb) 
• workshop on implementation of UN Guiding Principles (Copenhagen, 23-24 Feb)  

• Access (Policy Director)
• Empowering Responsible Investment (Analyst Programmer)
• German Institute for Human Rights (Policy Advisor, National Action Plan)
• Global Compact Network UK (2 posts: Research Consultant)
• Inter-American Association for Environmental Defense (Fellowship)

El Diario

Chihuahua Noticias

• Gasoducto El Encino-Topolobampo es de la Comisión Federal de Electricidad y Compañía Transportadora de Gas del Noroeste

ALAI

Revista Semana

Sinembargo

Adital

AnimalPolítico; CNNExpansión

E-Changer/Comundo; Adital

Diario Colatino

Instituto Federal de Acceso a la Información y Protección de Datos

Agence Ecofin (Suisse); Le Monde

CNCD 11.11.11 (Belgique)

Amis de la Terre France, CCFD-Terre Solidaire, Collectif Éthique sur l’étiquette, Peuples Solidaires, Sherpa & Terre des Hommes France

FIDH & ESCR-Net

Les Echos (France)

Sherpa (France)
 

Novethic (France)

Amnesty Intl.

Le Figaro (France)

Abidjan.net