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Exploring the Role of Development Cooperation Agencies in Corporate Responsibility (pdf 472K)

(IIED) By Tom Fox and Dave Prescott, May 2004. This report explores how bilateral and multilateral donors can support business activity that contributes to sustainable development, particularly in developing countries. It argues that, by helping to create an 'enabling environment' for responsible business practices, donors can enhance the effectiveness of their aid and increase the contribution of business to poverty eradication. It is based on discussions at an international conference: 'Development cooperation and corporate social responsibility: exploring the role of development cooperation agencies', which took place in Stockholm on 22-23 March 2004.

http://www.iied.org/SM/CR/documents/report.pdf

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CorpWatch Research Guide

Looking for information on corporations for an activist campaign, investigative article, lawsuit, socially conscious investment, or a school paper? Our interactive guide takes you through the steps of researching a corporation on the Internet -- how to find information about a corporation's business strategy and operations, financial status, and environmental and social record.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=170

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The Corporation

Website of the movie. One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today's dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy history. In this complex and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation's increasing preeminence.

http://www.thecorporation.com/

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BAT's big wheeze - the alternative British American Tobacco Social and Environmental Report

Lisa Rimmer. April 2004. (pdf 899.6 KB) British American Tobacco is the world's second largest multinational cigarette company. Headquartered in London, BAT sells cigarettes and other tobacco products in 180 markets around the world. Yet BAT makes products that kill people in their hundreds of thousands, year after relentless year. BAT has a 15 per cent share of the world tobacco market, second only to the American multinational Philip Morris. Five million people across the world die from smoking-related diseases every year. By the 2020s, as the children of today reach middle age, this figure is expected to double to ten million. Seven million of these deaths will be in developing countries, where health services are already hopelessly under-resourced and over-stretched.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/bats_big_wheeze.pdf

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LobbyWatch

LobbyWatch helps track deceptive PR involving lobbyists, PR firms, front groups, political networks and industry-friendly scientists.

http://www.lobbywatch.org

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Publish What You Pay

The Publish What You Pay campaign aims to help citizens of resource-rich developing countries hold their governments accountable for the management of revenues from the oil, gas and mining industries. Natural resource revenues are an important source of income for governments of over 50 developing countries, including Angola , Congo-Brazzaville , Kazakhstan and Venezuela . When properly managed these revenues should serve as a basis for poverty reduction, economic growth and development. The Publish What You Pay coalition of over 200 NGOs worldwide calls for the mandatory disclosure of the payments made by oil, gas and mining companies' to all governments for the extraction of natural resources. This is a necessary first step towards a more accountable system for the management of natural resource revenues in resource-rich developing countries. The campaign was launched by George Soros and founded by Global Witness, CAFOD, Open Society Institute, Oxfam, Save the Children UK, and Transparency International UK.

http://www.publishwhatyoupay.org/

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Houston, We Have a Problem: An Alternative Annual Report (pdf)

Produced by CorpWatch and Global Exchange May 18th, 2004. Halliburton, the largest oil-and-gas services company in the world, is also one of the most controversial companies in the United States. The company has been the number one financial beneficiary of the war against Iraq, raking in some $18 billion in contracts to rebuild the country's oil industry and service the U.S. troops in Iraq. It has also been accused of more fraud, waste, and corruption than any other Iraq contractor. This report details Halliburton's track record.

http://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/houston.pdf

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Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights is the go-to space for those hungry to make business responsible. The mission of Corporate Knights is to make business more responsible. We seek to accomplish this by enhancing transparency in ways that clarify which companies are leading--and lagging--the charge to a better world; and by exposing the opportunity for responsible corporations through highlighting the win-win areas for business and society in innovative ways.

http://www.corporateknights.ca/

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Corporate Social Responsibility Newswire Service

CSR is defined as the integration of business operations and values, whereby the interests of all stakeholders including investors, customers, employees, and the environment are reflected in the company's policies and actions. Corporate responsibility is no longer a luxury for companies. In today's global economy, it is critical for companies to embrace social and environmental responsibility in order to meet the demands of their investors, consumers, employees, and communities they serve. CSRwire seeks to promote the growth of corporate responsibility and sustainability through solutions-based information and positive examples of corporate practices.

http://www.csrwire.com/

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Corporate Watch

From Corporate Watch's beginnings looking at PFI roadbuilding, we have broadened out to examine the oil industry, globalistion, genetic engineering, food, toxic chemicals, privatisation and many other areas, to build up a picture of almost every type of corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate power, both economic and political. We have worked with and provided information to empower peace campaigners, environmentalists, and trade unionists; large NGOs and small autonomous groups; journalists, MPs, and members of the public.

http://www.corporatewatch.org/

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Flags of Inconvenience?: The Global Compact and the Future of the United Nations [PDF Format]

by Dr. Jem Bendell No. 22-2004 ICCSR Research Paper Series - ISSN 1479-5124 The Global Compact is an important initiative within the terrain of corporate social responsibility. In addition, it could play an important role in the future of the United Nations, for good or for ill. As it has grown, the role, effects, and accountability of the initiative have generated some concern. Criticisms are reviewed, and suggestions made for addressing them. A new programme of work is proposed for the Compact, which would see it moving towards a systems view of corporate responsibility. As it is an inter-governmental body, the UN's member states are not 'flags of inconvenience' to be held at arms length, but central to the UN's role and profile. Therefore the future of the Compact must consider how corporations can help and not undermine States in better serving "we the peoples." The argument is made that corporations should support the Compact in this new agenda as an application of a more meaningful concept of 'corporate citizenship' - specifically the obligation to be held to account by one's community. [PDF Format - 393kb]

http://www.globalpolicy.org/reform/business/2004/flags.pdf

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Development at Risk: Rethinking UN-Business Partnerships (PDF)

Jan. 2004 by Ann Zammit, co-published by the South Centre and UNRISD In recent years there has been an upsurge of initiatives that engage companies and the United Nations in collaborative ventures that are commonly called partnerships. Under the umbrella of "UN-business partnerships" are a variety of initiatives, involving, for example, specific projects, global health programmes and ulti-stakeholder initiatives such as the Global Compact. These new relationships have attracted considerable attention and controversy. For some, they constitute a pragmatic way of sensitizing the business community to development issues and improving the developmental impacts of transnational corporations and other business enterprises. Partnerships are part and parcel of contemporary policy trends associated with corporate social responsibility and good governance. For others, partnerships constitute a mechanism through which large corporations can gain undue influence over the public policy process and enhance their image and competitive advantage. In the case of the Global Compact, there are concerns that such gains are being achieved in return for relatively little, given the weak mechanisms that exist to ensure that companies actually adhere to the nine human rights, labour and environmental principles promoted by this initiative. (PDF format - 2777Kb)

http://www.southcentre.org/publications/developmentatrisk/newrisk.pdf

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DFID and Corporate Social Responsibility: An Issues Paper (PDF)

The private sector is sometimes seen as the enemy of the poor. However, it plays an important role in the economic growth that is essential to reducing world poverty. This paper outlines our approach to corporate social responsibility. It is in four sections. Section One explains what corporate social responsibility is and examines what drives it. Section Two discusses the links between corporate social responsibility and poverty reduction. Section Three sets out what the UK Government, and specifically DFID, can do to promote corporate social responsibility that benefits the poor. Section Four tells you where to go for further information (PDF 148 KB).

http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC13366.htm

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Behind the mask: The Real Face of Corporate Social Responsibility

Christian Aid, 21.01.04. The image of multinational companies working hard to make the world a better place is often just that - an image, says a new report from Christian Aid. What's needed are new laws to make businesses responsible for protecting human rights and the environment wherever they work.

http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/0401csr/index.htm

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Mapuche Lands in Patagonia Taken Over by Benetton Wool Farms

By Sebastian Hacher and Pauline Bartolone, CorpWatch, November 25, 2003. To the Mapuche Indians in southern Argentina, the Italian clothing manufacturer Benetton is the newest conquistador in 10,000 years of land struggles in Patagonia. Today Benetton is the largest landholder in Argentina, owning 900,000 hectares (2.2 million acres) in the resource-rich region of Patagonia. With 9% of Patagonia's most cultivatable land, their holdings amount to 40 times the size of the capital city of Buenos Aires, the second largest city in Latin America. "Here they fenced off all that they wanted. If it was a pretty valley, for that reason they appropriated it, if it was beautiful pampas, they closed it out. They left us among the stones, among the worst fields" says a Mapuche farmer Rogelio Fermín.

http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=9189

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The Price of Dignity by Anita Roddick

In this article Anita Roddick gives a brief survey of the shocking working conditions caused by the ability of corporations to transfer their factories to locations with lower standards and rewards for workers. She then outlines some approaches that need to taken if the situation is to improve. She says campaigns are needed to keep jobs in the developing world while at the same time working to guarantee respect for worker rights. Furthermore, we need enforceable laws to defend workers' rights - laws every bit as strong as those currently afforded to products.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1046792,00.html

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Business rules: who pays the price?: how corporate influence in the WTO impacts people and the environment (PDF)

Friends of the Earth International, 2003. While this report reveals only the tip of the iceberg, it leaves no doubt about the moral bankruptcy of the World Trade Organization (WTO) system. Behind the rhetoric about 'rulesbased trade', 'liberalization' and the 'Doha Development Round', the reality is that the WTO's trade and investment rules are consistently being shaped around the interests of transnational corporations, consolidating their global expansion and removing any remaining obstacles. Through a series of case studies, this publication highlights the powerful influence of corporations on the World Trade Organization (WTO) process. Big business has unparalleled access to trade negotiators, and this has resulted in a set of trade rules and agreements that directly benefit transnational commercial enterprises - often at the expense of local communities and small businesses, as well as future generations and the environment.

http://www.foei.org/publications/pdfs/businessrules.pdf

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Acres loses appeal on bribery charge in Lesotho

(Odiuos Debts) Globe and Mail, August 18/2003. By Karen MacGregor Durban: Canadian engineering firm Acres International Ltd. lost an appeal against conviction on a charge of bribery in a high-profile corruption case in Lesotho on Friday - but won its fight against a second graft conviction and had a whopping fine of $4.2-million reduced to $2.8-million. The Oakville, Ont., firm - the first of three multinationals charged with bribing a top official to win lucrative contracts in the $3.3-billion Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which delivers water to Lesotho and South Africa - was convicted last year of two counts of corruption. It was the first conviction by a developing country of a bribe-giving western company.

http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=8145

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UN human rights body approves guidelines for multinational corporations

UN News Service, 13 August - In an important step forward in developing human rights standards for corporations, an expert subsidiary panel of the top United Nations rights body today approved a set of ethics guidelines bringing together a range of legal obligations for companies drawn from existing human rights, labour and environmental standards.

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=7991&Cr=commission&Cr1=rights

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Impoverished Farmers are Fighting to Stop Drinks Giant "Destroying Livelihoods"

(CorpWatch) By Paul Vallely, Jon Clarke and Liz Stuart in Kerala, Independent/UK, July 25, 2003. Three years ago, the little patch of land in the green, picturesque rolling hills of Palakkad in the Indian state of Kerala yielded 50 sacks of rice and 1,500 coconuts a year. It provided work for dozens of labourers. Then Coca-Cola arrived and built a 40-acre bottling plant next door. In his last harvest, Shahul Hameed, the farmer who owns the modest smallholding, could coax only five sacks of rice from the land, and a meagre 200 coconuts. His irrigation wells have run dry. Meanwhile, the huge factory extracts up to 1.5 million litres of water a day from the deep wells it has drilled into the aquifer to produce Coke, Fanta, Sprite and the drink the locals call, without irony, Thumbs-Up. But the cruellest twist is that the plant bottles a brand of mineral water while local people - who could never afford it - have to walk up to six miles twice a day to fetch water. The turbid, brackish water which remains at the bottom of their wells is now too high in dissolved salts to be healthy to drink, cook with or even wash in. Some claim it made them ill.

http://www.corpwatch.org/news/PND.jsp?articleid=7728

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Ethical Corporation

Ethical Corporation magazine is an independent business information provider and events producer on the issues in and around corporate social, financial and environmental responsibility. We provide independent content and events on the subject of global corporate citizenship and corporate responsibility management.

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/

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Labour Behind the Label

Labour Behind the Label is a membership organisation which brings together pressure groups, trade unions and individuals in support of garment workers' efforts to improve their working conditions and wages. It draws attention to the plight of garment workers everywhere, including Britain, and works to facilitate information exchange and international solidarity between workers and consumers. It calls on companies to: · abide by the internationally agreed core conventions of the UN's International Labour Organisation (ILO) · commit themselves to a living wage and to the independent verification of labour standards · take responsibility for improving working conditions along the entirety of their supply chain.

http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/

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Sweatshop Watch

Founded in 1995, Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of over 30 labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious and student organizations, and many individuals, committed to eliminating the exploitation that occurs in sweatshops. Sweatshop Watch serves low-wage workers nationally and globally, with a focus on garment workers in California. We believe that workers should earn a living wage in a safe, decent work environment, and that those responsible for the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable. The workers who labor in sweatshops are our driving force. Our decisions, projects, and organizing efforts are informed by their voices,their needs, and their life experiences.

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/

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Cokewatch

A website designed to keep an eye on The Coca-Cola Company, one of the world's most well-known corporations.

http://www.cokewatch.org/

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Communities Reject Coca-Cola in India

By Amit Srivastava India Resource Center July 10, 2003 (Corpwatch). Coca-Cola is in trouble in India. Ever since the first allegations arose in Kerala, India, of water scarcity and polluted water resulting from its bottling operations, Coca-Cola's public relations department has churned out denials, insisting that the charges are false and that it is the "target of a handful of extremist protesters."

http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=7508

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India Resource Center

(Formerly CorpWatch India) India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India. We provide timely information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. We also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India. India Resource Center is a project of Global Resistance. Global Resistance works to strengthen the movement against corporate globalization by supporting and linking local, grassroots struggles against globalization around the world. Our goal is to ensure that those most impacted by globalization are engaged in and at the forefront of the movement against corporate globalization.

http://www.corpwatchindia.org/

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Ethical Corporation magazine

http://www.ethicalcorp.com is a free daily and monthly news service on corporate responsibility around the world. Free monthly and weekly email newsletters are available and free reports and magazine issues are available on ethicalcorp.com Ethical Corporation magazine is also the world's leading event organiser on focused practitioner corporate responsibility conferences and workshops around the world.

http://www.ethicalcorp.com

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CSR Data Networks

CSR Data Networks is an international provider of interactive roundtable discussions on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) issues for both novice and experiences professionals.

http://www.csrdatanetworks.com/

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Activist Resigns as McDonald's Takes 'Green' Seat

WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - The recent appointment of fast food giant McDonald's to the advisory board of an environmental group has drawn accusations of ''green washing'' from environmentalists and led one board member to resign in protest. But both the company and the group strongly deny the accusations. Paul Hawken, a well-known activist and environmentalist respected for his strong opposition to corporate globalisation, resigned two weeks ago from the Green Business Network (GBN), a Washington-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that says it is working to make businesses adopt better environmental practices. "McDonald's doesn't have the expertise, the credibility or the values to be on the steering committee of a green business," Hawken, a board member since the NGO started its operation in 2000, told IPS in an interview.

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=18595

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The Multinational Monitor

The Multinational Monitor is published monthly except bimonthly in January/February and July/August by Essential Information, Inc. The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.

http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/

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How low can you go? The corruption of corporate imperialism

(TWN) If the bribery and cronyism that have so incensed anti-corruption crusaders are to be exposed and opposed, so too must corporate profiteering and monopolistic practices which heap misery upon people and plunder natural resources the world over. Above all, stresses Aziz Choudry, a clear position must be taken to confront the corrupt worldview which underpins the neoliberal agenda of shaping the world in the interests of big business. Aziz Choudry is an activist, writer and researcher on social and economic justice issues with Aotearoa (New Zealand)-based GATT Watchdog. This article is adapted from his presentation at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Corruption and Governance, 2 August, Quezon City, Philippines. From Third World Economics No. 287 (16-31 August 2002).

http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/twe287d.htm

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How to spend $67 billion: What would you do with all the money squandered by corporate America?

... I've done a little research in an effort to offer up some perspective on the magnitude of these crimes. My hope is that when you see a number like $100 million - the amount Jeff Skilling pocketed from Enron before abandoning the sinking ship - expressed not in dollars but in terms we can all identify with, your outrage meter will be set to the proper scale. By Arianna Huffington, Aug. 22, 2002, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of eight books.

http://www.salon.com/news/col/huff/2002/08/22/billions/index.html

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Business & Human Rights: A Resource Website

The aim of this "online library" is to provide easy access (through links) to a wide range of materials, and to promote informed discussion of important policy issues.

http://www.business-humanrights.org/

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Business & Biodiversity: The Handbook for Corporate Action

by Earthwatch Institute (Europe), IUCN and WBCSD. IUCN and WBCSD have joined forces with Earthwatch Institute (Europe) to develop a new Handbook for Corporate Action. The Handbook provides information on the business case for biodiversity, an overview of hot issues, and guidance on biodiversity management strategies. Throughout this electronic version, links to extended case studies are provided. This website is the online companion to the Handbook. In addition to the Handbook itself, it hosts extended case studies, biodiversity resources and a training presentation.

http://www.wbcsd.org/DocRoot/ob3ZstqTvcmXQVtEtMxh/20020819_biodiversity.pdf

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Transnational Institute

The Transnational Institute was founded in 1974 as a worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists. It was one of the first research institutes established to be transnational in name, composition, orientation and focus. In the spirit of public scholarship, and aligned to no political party, TNI seeks to create and promote international co-operation in analysing and finding possible solutions to such global problems as militarism and conflict, poverty and marginalisation, social injustice and environmental degradation. At the heart of TNI lies the committed core of current fellows and advisors. They include journalists, independent researchers, and senior scholars from similar institutes in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia and the USA. TNI is constituted as a non-profit organisation registered in the Netherlands.

http://www.tni.org/

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Corporate Citizenship - Revisiting the Relationship between Business, Good Governance and Sustainability

Agenda 21 has not aged well. Today s agenda on business and sustainable development is both broader and deeper than that of the early 1990s. Eco-efficiency is still there, but corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and corporate citizenship have all become mainstream terms in sustainable development thinking. Specialist corporate citizenship organisations have blossomed; new management and accounting tools have been developed; and issues have emerged within the business and sustainable development agenda that were not there at the time of Rio - business and conflict; business and human rights; business and sustainable livelihoods.

http://www.ring-alliance.org/ring_pdf/bp_corpctzn.pdf#search=%22%20Revisiting%20the%20Relationship%20between%20Business%2C%20Good%20Governance%20and%20Sustainability%22

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CorpWatch

CorpWatch counters corporate-led globalization through education and activism. We work to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization--a diverse movement for human rights, labor rights and environmental justice.

http://www.corpwatch.org

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The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative

The Edmund Rice Business Ethics Initiative exists to promote a conversation between business and the community on the subject of values and ethics in the workplace. It aims to create a space in which issues of justice and ethics can be researched and discussed in a supportive atmosphere. It also seeks to promote better understanding between business and the community of the perspectives and priorities important to each so better outcomes can be achieved for all.

http://www.erc.org.au/busethics/

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Corporate Social Reponsibility Forum

Promoting responsible business practises that benefit business and society.

http://www.iblf.org

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BehindTheLabel.org

BehindTheLabel.org is a multimedia news magazine and on-line community covering the stories and people of the global clothing industry - the hidden stories of the millions of workers around the world who make our clothes, the people who care how their clothes are made and the multinational corporations behind the labels

http://www.behindthelabel.org/

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Clean Clothes Campaign

The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) aims to improve working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry. The Clean Clothes Campaigns are coalitions of consumer organisations, trade unions, human rights and women rights organisations, researchers, solidarity groups and activists.

http://www.cleanclothes.org/

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UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

Working group on the working methods and activities of transnational corporations, UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/sc.htm

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Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)

The Ethical Trading Initiative is a ground-breaking initiative which brings together a wide range of organisations from all parts of society with the aim of helping to make substantial improvements to the lives of poor working people around the world. As consumers of the goods they produce we all have a stake in this unique and innovative initiative. The ETI aims to develop and encourage the use of a widely endorsed set of standards, embodied in codes of conduct, and monitoring and auditing methods which will enable companies to work together with other organisations outside the corporate sector to improve labour conditions around the world. Many companies are already working to improve their own sourcing policies, but by developing a shared approach, the ETI intends to make a major contribution to the development of standards and methods which can be used by any company, large or small.

http://www.eti.org.uk/

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Transnational Corporations

This Journal takes a fresh look at major legal, sectorial, regional and environmental issues facing corporations operating internationally. Issued three times a year, Transnational Corporations is written in English. This journal focuses on in-depth, policy-oriented research findings on significant issues relating to the activities of transnational corporations, whose importance in the international economy is clearly increasing.

http://www.un.org/Pubs/about/tnc.htm

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Tangled Up In Blue: Corporate Partnerships at the United Nations

Secretary General Kofi Annan has encouraged all UN agencies to form partnerships with the private sector. The centerpiece of this initiative is his Global Compact, launched with the agencies for environment (UNEP), labor (ILO) and human rights (UNHCHR) in July, 2000. This report argues that corporate influence at the UN is already too great, and that new partnerships are leading down a slippery slope toward the partial privatization and commercialization of the UN system itself. The Secretary General's office and UN agencies such as UNICEF, UNDP, WHO, and UNESCO are partnering with corporations known for human, labor and environmental rights violations. The Global Compact and its cousin partnerships at other UN agencies threaten the mission and integrity of the United Nations.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=996

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Business for Social Responsibility (BSR)

Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) is a US-based global resource for companies seeking to sustain their commercial success in ways that demonstrate respect for ethical values, people, communities and the environment.

http://www.bsr.org/

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Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility

The Centre for Innovation in Corporate Responsibility's mission is to lead and assist Canadian businesses in redefining and realizing responsible international business practice.

http://www.cicr.net/

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Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies

The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (CERES), Inc. is a non-profit alliance of investors and environmental groups working in partnership with over fifty companies to improve corporate environmental responsibility worldwide.

http://www.ceres.org/

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Corporate Social Responsibilty Europe

Europe is a non-profit organisation that promotes corporate social responsibility. Our mission is to help companies achieve profitability, sustainable growth and human progress by placing corporate social responsibility in the mainstream of business practice.

http://www.csreurope.org/

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