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    Business, human rights and the right to water challenges, dilemmas and opportunities

    Institute for Human Rights and Business, 2009
    This report summarises a discussion of a group comprising businesses, international organisations, and civil society on issues pertaining to the right to water. The main issues discussed include:
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    Human rights guidelines for pharmaceutical companies in relation to access to medicines: the sexual and reproductive health context

    The Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, 2008
    This briefing points out that access to essential medicines is a fundamental element of the right to health. It examines the role of the pharmaceutical industry in ensuring access to medicines generally and in particular for sexual and reproductive health. 
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    Guide to corporate human rights impact assessment tools

    Aim for Human Rights, 2009
    The tools in this guide for Human Rights Impact Assessments (HRIAs)  are based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and help in assessing the impact of business on human rights.
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    Private sector accountability in combating the commercial sexual exploitation of children

    End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, 2008
    This paper evaluates the private sector’s role in the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). It identifies four sub-sectors habitually associated with CSEC:
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    Report of the expert legal panel on corporate complicity in international crimes

    Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2008
    The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) established an Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes in 2006. The panel was mandated to develop the legal and public policy meaning of corporate complicity in the worst violations of international human rights and humanitarian law that amount to international crimes.
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    Building national campaigns: activists, alliances, and how change happens 

    Oxfam, 2007
    Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multiple challenges.
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    A guide for integrating human rights into business management

    Global Compact, 2008
    While human rights continue to be the primary responsibility of governments, companies can do a lot within the context of their own business to support and respect human rights. Being proactive on human rights can make good business sense, as well as being the right thing to do.
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    Promotion and protection of human rights

    United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2006
    This document is an interim report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprise.Three broad contextual factors frame the Special Representative’s analysis of the rapidly evolving business and human rights:
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    Embedding human rights in business practice II

    UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 2007
    This document explores the practical application of the Global Compact’s human rights principles using case studies. It offers detailed examples of what businesses from all over the world are doing to implement human rights within their own operations and spheres of influence, and how they are doing it.
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    Social responsibility agreements in Ghana’s forestry sector

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008
    In Ghana, legislation requires logging firms to commit a portion of their financial resources towards the provision of social amenities to local forest communities. Logging firms must perform this legal obligation by signing and implementing “Social Responsibility Agreements” (SRAs) with forest communities.

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