Governments are obligated to protect their citizens from human rights abuses, including those connected with business activity. In practical terms, a government’s obligation to protect human rights in the context of business activity “requires taking appropriate steps to prevent, investigate and redress such abuse through effective policies, legislation, regulation and adjudication.”[218] Governments are also obligated to effectively enforce that legal framework once it is in place, to prevent abuse, and to ensure accountability and redress where abuses do occur.[219]

[16] Biochemical oxygen demand (or BOD) measures the amount of pollution that can be oxidized biologically, while chemical oxygen demand (or COD) measures the amount of pollution in water that cannot be oxidized biologically. They are both standard measurements of water pollution.

We’ll start by looking at the left column, for Polarity. This is one of the simplest settings to make—if you are welding aluminum (or magnesium) you select the AC (Alternating Current) mode, for all other welding you select the DC (Direct Current) mode. See, I told you it would be easy!

Proof that you don’t need to break the bank to get the most out of mountain biking, both Marley builds are dripping with choice components so you can keep shredding month-after-month, year-after-year.

[29] U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, “Chromium,” September 2008, http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/TF.asp?id=61&tid=17 (accessed August 8, 2012).

The work is painted on aluminium panels. Arranged in a line, they make up a 6m-long frieze of fantastical characters. Each panel is embellished with a decorative border comprising the ingredients for an Ulster fry. Historic Royal Palaces, the independent charity that looks after Hillsborough Castle, commissioned Kindness. He looked at the castle’s history of hospitality and entertaining and talked to staff at the castle, local residents and six local community groups, gathering information and stories. The groups became involved and, with writer Maeve O’Lynn and artist Hannah Shepherd, held workshops to delve into the subject.

Human Rights Watch spoke to 13 government officials (4 from the Department of Environment, 4 from the Ministry of Labour and Employment, 2 from the Ministry of Industries, 2 from the government’s National Institute for Cancer Research and Hospital, and the member of parliament for Hazaribagh).

Turning to our oil and gas business. We now have an optimum portfolio mix across our oil and gas life cycle to funnel our growth aspirations. In exploration, we have secured 10 additional blocks. This takes up total acreage in our portfolio to 65,000 square kilometers across 58 blocks.

The frame welds are neat, and sensible external cable routing should make for easier maintenance. A large painted reflective patch on the upper part of the rear of the seat tube aids visibility too.

[146] Note that the practice of employing long-term workers on a daily basis as “temporary workers” contravenes the Labour Act (2006). The act provides for a category of temporary worker (with a correspondingly shorter period of notice of employment termination than required for a permanent worker) but considers temporary worker those who are “employed in an establishment for work which is essentially of temporary nature, and is likely to be finished within a limited period.” Labour Act (2006), section 4(5).

"We were not taking part in a ‘cyclists’ meet’, m’lud – we were a flashmob of people dressed in cycling gear."

The court case was part of a long-running battle between Potanin and Russian tycoon Oleg Deripaska, who was the target of U.S. sanctions last year, along with his firms Rusal and En+.