China and Ethical business
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Beijing - Population:
1330044000 - Size:
9596960.0 Km2
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- A global review of implementation of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection
- UNEP Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, 2004
- This report presents the findings of an UNEP and Consumers International (CI) global governmental survey of the status of implementation of the sustainable consumption section of the United Nations Guidelines for Consumer Protection. ...
- How can working conditions in the electronics sector be improved?
- K. Astill; M. Griffith / Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2004
- This paper analyses the labour standards and working conditions in computing manufacturing, particularly in developing countries where many stages of computer production are carried out by low-skilled and low-paid workers. The ...
- FOE calls on Shell to live up to its sustainability claims
- L. Rimmer / Friends of the Earth, 2003
- This campaign document presents itself as an alternative to Shell's own sustainability report. It commends the company's efforts and policies towards greater social and environemntal sustainability but argues that it has not gone far ...
- Impact of supply chains on women
- Business for Social Responsibility, 2002
- Women comprise a majority of the workforce in labor-intensive manufacturing industries such as apparel, footwear, toys, electronics, food processing and house-wares. They also work extensively in the informal sector, including in agri...
- Governance and fair trade in China
- Ethical Trading Initiative, UK, 1999
- How does China's system of governance work? What is the relationship between the system of governance (legal system, public authority and enterprise structures) and labour standards issues encountered by ETI members and others involve...
- Made in China: Behind the Label
- National Labor Committee, USA, 1998
- Describes sweatshop conditions in 21 factories in China producing apparel for major U.S. labels such as Ann Taylor, Kathie Lee / Wal-Mart, Liz Claiborne and Ralph Lauren. There are 44,000 apparel factories in China and more than 4 mil...
- Mulan's Sisters: Working Conditions in Chinese Factories Making Disney Products
- Global Exchange, 1999
- There are hundreds of Disney licensees in China producing Disney toys, garments, and footwear. Between July 1998 and February 1999, researchers from the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (HKCIC) visited four of the factories in...
- Macroeconomic management and intergovernmental relations in China
- Jun Ma / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1995
- Decentralization in China has been crucial in stimulating regional economic growth and reform, but local governments have attained de facto control over many policy instruments, seriously weakening the central government's ability to ...
- Must globalisation force poor countries to suffer poor air quality?
- D Wheeler / New Ideas in Pollution Regulation, World Bank, 2000
- This article looks at whether globalisation could trigger an environmental "race to the bottom", in which competition for investment and jobs relentlessly degrade environmental standards. The "race to the bottom" theory is tested by e...
- Factory Improvement Training (FIT 5)
- Multi-supplier training programme
- Institute of Contemporary Observation (ICO)
- Labour development and corporate social responsibility in China
- The China Business Council for Sustainable Development (CBCSD)
- Coalition of leading Chinese and foreign enterprises registered and operating in China
- Environment-oriented Enterprises Consultancy Zhejiang
Chinese environment and development consultancy based in Zhejiang
- SynTao
- CSR information and consultancy service in China
- Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM)
- Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a non-government organization (NGO) based in Hong Kong, China, founded in June 2005 by students, and later joined by other cultural and labour activists. SACOM's main goal is to monitor and campaign against corporate misbehavior that violates worker's rights, health, safety, welfare, and dignity in China.
- The Responsible Supply Chain Association (RSCA)
- The Responsible Supply Chain Association (RSCA) is an industry-wide and professional body for the promotion of social responsibilities, which is directly under the administration of China National Textile and Apparel Council (CNTAC). It is composed of enterprises, companies, buyers, retailers and other interested parties within the entire textile supply chain, with an aim at utilising resources an...
