Business & human rights: Weekly Update - November 28, 2007

From the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre:
Weekly Update: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre - 28 November
2007

CLICK THIS LINK FOR ALL TOP STORIES added past 7 days / Principales
noticias / Articles de premier plan:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Topstories?date=2007/11/28

The top stories include / Las noticias incluyen / Les articles
incluent:

* India: Supreme Court stalls Vedanta's bauxite project in Orissa due
to environmental, displacement concerns
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/366926

* Guinea: Rio Tinto Alcan partners with UNDP, govt. and local NGO to
encourage progress towards Millennium Development Goals
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/602989

* World AIDS Day: 1 Dec 2007 - how the private sector is addressing &
failing to address the crisis
- Special webpage will be updated daily until the event
- Refers to positive steps by Standard Chartered, Virgin, Coca-Cola,
Quality Chemical Industries, Cipla, Electricity Company of Ghana, CEOs of
20 Kenyan companies, others
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Documents/WorldAIDSDay2007

* Tanzania: Human rights & poverty concerns regarding Barrick Gold mine
raised during Canadian Prime Minister's visit to the country
- Article includes comments by Barrick Gold
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/225103

* Amnesty USA & investor coalition call on investment firms that own
stock in oil companies in Sudan to press for change in Darfur
- Includes responses of 10 investment firms; 31 others have not
responded
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/531502

* India: Extensive study finds employment discrimination persists
against Muslims and Dalits
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/843362

* Hungary: Korean company Hankook Tire fined for labour abuses, govt.
cancels subsidy
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/600169

* Saudi Arabia: 40 killed in Aramco gas pipeline blast - mostly So.
Asian immigrant workers
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/592602

* As India emerges as economic power, "firms cannot be silent on human
rights", says Arvind Ganesan of Human Rights Watch
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/531959

* Google to invest "hundreds of millions" of dollars developing
renewable energy technologies
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/319211

* So. Korean Natl. Human Rights Commission raises concerns about
electronic monitoring of employees by companies
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/895608

* Business & climate change:
- Carbon Disclosure Project: Indian & So. African companies' records in
combating climate change
- Confederation of British Industry report urges companies to address
climate change - article includes NGO reaction
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/868395

* Español: México: Encuesta encuentra que 80% de profesionistas sufren
discriminación laboral - la mayoría por su edad
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/178235

* Español: México: Cemefi y El Economista lanzan suplemento mensual
sobre Responsabilidad Social
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/668653

* Français : Guinée : Rio Tinto Alcan dans un partenariat avec le
gouvernement et le PNUD pour appuyer l'atteinte des Objectifs du millénaire
pour le développement
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/261380

* Français : France : Sanctions financières «importantes» prévues pour
l'égalité salariale des femmes
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/881295