South Africa and Ethical business
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Pretoria - Population:
49000000 - Size:
1219912.0 Km2
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- What can be done to modify strategies for the present day labour movements?
- A.V. Jose / International Labour Organization, 2002
- This report presents a representative sample of the comparative research undertaken by the International Institute for Labour Studies on comparative research on “Trade union responses to globalization”. It involves 15 countr...
- Raising gender sensitivity: ethical trade in African horticulture
- Stephanie Barrientos; Catherine Dolan; Anne Tallontire / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- African producers exporting fresh fruit, vegetables and flowers to UK supermarkets now have to meet codes of conduct covering their conditions of employment. Much of the workforce is female seasonal labour, with men predominantly occu...
- Workplace HIV/AIDS programs
- Horizons, 2003
- The June 2003 biannual newsletter of the Horizons Program, highlights findings from operations research studies conducted in workplaces in South Africa, Vietnam, and Thailand. Study themes include how to mobilise management to support...
- Eco-tourism in South Africa
- Z. Ntshona; E. Lahiff / Sustainable Livelihoods in Southern Africa, 2003
- This paper investigates the origins and current operation of the Amadiba Horse and Hiking Trail, a community-based initiative located on South Africa's Wild Coast. The trail project presents itself as a people-centred, designed to inv...
- Can codes of conduct for ‘ethical trading’ make a positive impact on sustainable rural livelihoods?
- A. du Toit / Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2001
- This paper considers the challenges facing stakeholders in one particular case of private sector self-regulation: the Ethical Trading Initiative’s pilot project in monitoring compliance with its ‘Base Code’ in the South...
- Corporate accountability in the South African petrochemicals sector
- M. Butler; D. Hallowes / Groundwork, 2002
- This report seeks to describe the present state of governance for corporate accountability in the South African context. It focuses on the petrochemicals sector on the one hand and on air pollution management on the other. It i...
- 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 ...
- Private sector role in combating HIV, TB and malaria among their workers
- Global Health Initiative, 2002
- Series of papers and background materials on private sector efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. The case studies are intended to be a tool to facilitate greater engagement by companies by illustrating examples of the...
- Are businesses avoiding shouldering the burden of HIV/AIDS?
- S. Rosen; J. Simon / Department of International Health, Boston School of Public Health, 2003
- As the economic burden of HIV/AIDS increases in sub-Saharan Africa, allocation of the burden among levels and sectors of society is changing. The private sector has more scope to avoid the economic burden of AIDS than governments, hou...
- How is South African business responding to HIV/AIDS?
- South Africa Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, 2003
- This site presents the results of a survey of business responses to HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The concise version of the results are presently separately along the following subject divisions: prevention treatm...
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