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Complaint lodged against ESB over Colombian coal imports 19 January 2021  A formal complaint against the ESB has been lodged today in regards to imported coal from the Cerrejón mine in Colombia.  Filed by the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) through Ireland’s National Contact Point to the OECD, the complaint alleges that the ESB has breached its human rights responsibilities by importing coal from the mine. The action was supported by Christian Aid Ireland as well as a coalition of Colom...

Switzerland: ESG reporting and due diligence requirements On 29 November 2020, Swiss voters opted for the introduction of EU-style ESG reporting and due diligence requirements and against the so-called Responsible Business Initiative. 391 In brief On 29 November 2020, Swiss voters opted for the introduction of EU-style ESG reporting and due diligence requirements and against the so-called Responsible Business Initiative. While the initiative would have added teeth to the civil liability regime ...

Global Affairs Canada and the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service have issued the following advisory to bring attention to human rights violations in...

Royal horse show agrees to adopt human rights policy

SEI Enhances Global Investment Stewardship Strategy With Focus on Climate Change, SEI Joins Climate Action 100+ News provided by Share this article Share this article OAKS, Pa., Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SEI (NASDAQ:SEIC) today announced the launch of a global investment stewardship strategy that will embed sustainability into shareholder engagement and proxy voting practices across the companys approximately $248.1 billion in assets under management as of Sept. 30, 2020. This enhanced stra...

John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon. R. Jamil Jonna is associate editor for communications and production at Monthly Review. Brett Clark is associate editor of Monthly Review and a professor of sociology at the University of Utah. The authors thank John Mage, Craig Medlen, and Fred Magdoff for their assistance. The U.S. economy and society at the start of 2021 is more polarized than it has been at any point since the Ci...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Just in time for the holidays, the OECD has published detailed guidance about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on transfer pricing. The guidance has useful information for taxpayers and tax administrations alike. It contains general advice on the application of basic transfer pricing principles during the pandemic, as well as specific advice on four issues: (i) comparability analyses, (ii...

Jane Humphries In a White House press conference held on 16 November 2016, then President Barack Obama said: “Yes to trade, but trade that ensure that these other countries that trade with us aren’t engaging in child labour”. In 2016, child labour affected more than 150 million children, or about 10% of the world’s children. In Africa, the share reaches 20%. The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 8.7 recognises child labour as a serious impediment to sustainable development an...

2020-12-24 17:35:56 Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/. On 23 December 2020, General Taxation Authority of Mongolia issued a press statement regarding the tax audit of Oyu Tolgoi LLC. The statement reads: "Similar to many other countries’ designated tax administrators, the Mongolian Tax Authority (“MTA”) conducts a periodic audit of tax returns filed by companies within its jurisdiction to ensure the proper application of domestic tax laws and the satisfactory compliance of certain in...

New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xx + 295, ₹ 895. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019; pp xxiv + 577, price not indicated. Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years by Asian Development Bank,  Manila: ADB, 2020 (ebook), http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/TCS190290.   The transformation of Asia from its status as the most impoverished region to the growth locomotive of the world economy within five decades is unprecedented and nothing short of a mi...