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Submission to the UN Open-ended working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises
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Brazil: organizations call for Vale to be delisted from the UN Global Compact
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Organizations ask United Nations to delist Vale from Global Compact
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Support for database on business in/with Israeli settlements in occupied territories
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