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Brazil Advances in Climate Change Litigation

Legal Planet

Lula, who served as President of Brazil from 2003 to 2010 (and is the first President in the country to return for a third term), is known for supporting policies to protect the environment and disenfranchised social groups. Treaties on environmental law are a type of human rights treaty, and, for that reason, enjoy supranational status.

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Meta has not done enough to safeguard children, whistleblower says

Corp Watch

When the company decided to temporarily block the sharing of news on its platform in Australia in 2020 to protest a law that would require it to pay news publishers for content, it also blocked government health-department and emergency services pages.

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Rooney Rule Revised Provides ESG Opportunity

Greenbuilding Law

Last Monday the NFL announced at the owners meeting that it had approved adjustments to the Rooney Rule, first adopted in 2003, “to enhance opportunities for people of color and women for nearly all league and team jobs.”. It strikes us that the response to inequality should be as easy as “treat others the way they want to be treated” (.

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Wildfires, CEQA, Climate Change & the Courts

Legal Planet

Environmental and conservation groups have for a number of years attempted to convince California courts of the need to integrate climate change considerations into environmental analyses prepared under the state’s most important environmental law, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). That’s an alarming statistic.

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Facebook and Instagram ran content sexualizing minors next to corporate ads, lawsuit says

Corp Watch

When the company decided to temporarily block the sharing of news on its platform in Australia in 2020 to protest a law that would require it to pay news publishers for content, it also blocked government health-department and emergency services pages.

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Meta ‘stifling’ pro-Palestine voices on social media, rights group says

Corp Watch

Corporation Facebook Image Image Products Social Media Platform Facebook Website Summary Facebook is a social media company that was founded in 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg. It trades in the data of over two billion users and their daily activity which has allowed Facebook to become an advertising behemoth.

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Disinformation researcher accuses Meta of meddling in Harvard’s research

Corp Watch

By Justine Calma and Emilia David Corporation Facebook Image Image Products Social Media Platform Facebook Website Summary Facebook is a social media company that was founded in 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg. It trades in the data of over two billion users and their daily activity which has allowed Facebook to become an advertising behemoth.

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