Calling an end to the work day – maybe the French are onto something, after all. Honestly, those French people: they sit around all day puffing Gauloises cigarettes, quaffing vin rouge, and now we learn that a new law protects them from having to answer work e-mails or phone calls from their bosses after 6pm!
Grossnationalhappiness. Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations. The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
Snowden has been working at the National Security Agency for the last four years as an employee of various outside contractors, including Booz Allen and Dell. UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Skip the main content if you do not want to read it as the next section.
Main Content UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Environment groups have a problem with population. It doesn’t take too long to open up incredibly divisive discussions about population, development and the environment.
Children's Rights: Will the Voluntary Framework Go Far Enough? Will these Principles take business from "do not harm" to "invest in helping children thrive?
" By Elizabeth Dove and Heather Shapter Children are one-third of the world’s population and ALL of our future. They are also among the most marginalized and vulnerable members of society. It's easy for businesses in the industrialized West to overlook children's rights when creating business plans for the developing world. After all, young children do not work where they come from. How do global businesses work within diverse cultural realities and complex global political and business environments so children are not in harm’s way? On February 13, 2014, UNICEF Canada, Save the Children and the UN Global Compact Canada, in collaboration with several global companies, hosted the Canadian release of The Children’s Rights and Business Principles, offering Canadian businesses a framework to incorporate children's rights into their operations. With Power Comes Responsibility: Technology Firms Face Increasing Expectations to Respect Human Rights.
LONDON, Feb. 28 /CSRwire/ - Today Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launched a briefing highlighting the human rights responsibilities of information and communications technology (ICT) companies around the world.
The briefing is launched in advance of RightsCon, a major gathering of human rights experts, business people and government representatives in Silicon Valley from 3-5 March, organized by Access. Revealed: The women we failed. Three-quarters of all women killed in NSW die at the hands of their loved ones, an official statistic that has led NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione to warn that domestic violence is one of the ''biggest issues modern society has to face''.
A Fairfax Media investigation coinciding with International Women's Day has found domestic violence is responsible for about two in five of all homicides and assaults in NSW, with 24 women dying in the year to September 2013. The assaults buck crime trends, with violence in our homes rising while street violence, robbery and car theft fall. Syria submits new plan to ship its most dangerous chemicals abroad by April - UN. "Syria has submitted to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) a revised proposal that aims to complete the removal of all chemicals from Syria before the end of next month," said Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for UN secretary-general, at a daily briefing.
"The OPCW-UN Joint Mission also verified that two more consignments of chemicals have left the port of Latakia, including a quantity of mustard gas -- a Priority 1 chemical," Nesirky said. "Another movement, a significant consignment of other Priority 1 chemicals, is scheduled to arrive in Latakia during this week, which will bring the total number of movements so far to six," he said.
The spokesman said the six movements represent more than 35 percent of all chemicals that must be removed from Syria for destruction, including 23 percent of Priority 1 chemicals and 63 percent of Priority 2 chemicals. "She will brief the Security Council on Wednesday on Syria's chemical weapons program," Nesirky added. The Story of Human Rights. Study: Global Warming Will Cause 180,000 More Rapes by 2099. Controversial new research predicts that over the coming century, rising temperatures will result in more violent crime.
—Jeremy Schulman on Thu. February 27, 2014 4:00 AM PDT aijohn784/Thinkstock Global warming isn't just going to melt the Arctic and flood our cities—it's also going to make Americans more likely to kill each other. That's the conclusion of a controversial new study that uses historic crime and temperature data to show that hotter weather leads to more murders, more rapes, more robberies, more assaults, and more property crimes. "Looking at the past, we see a strong relationship between temperature and crime," says study author Matthew Ranson, an economist with the policy consulting firm Abt Associates. Just how much more crime can we expect? Ranson acknowledges that those results represent a relatively small jump in the overall level of crime—a 2.2 percent increase in murder and a 3.1 percent increase in rape, for instance. Billion dollar gold market in Dubai where not all was as it seemed. The bars were stacked casually on a desk in a back office of Dubai's bustling gold souk, and they immediately caught the eye of the inspectors.
Keen to impress his guests, the manager picked one up. Chartbook of Economic Inequality: 25 Countries 1911-2010. Richest 85 boast same wealth as half the world. Illustration: Cathy Wilcox Eighty-five people control the same amount of wealth as half the world's population. That is 85 people compared with 3.5 billion.