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  Some transparency, no accountability: the use of oil revenue in Angola and its impact on human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2004

  This report analyses the IMF’s overall relationship with the government of Angola and the results of the IMF-led “Oil Diagnostic” monitoring system as a form of pressure for reform toward transparency and accountability.The report argues that the Angolan government has consistently mismanaged its substantial oil revenues, which reflects a failure of government accountability and a continuing fa
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  Sudan, oil, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.
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  UN Sub-Commission draft norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rights

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2003

  This document constitutes a set of specific human rights guidelines on the diverse challenges affecting a broad range of industries. They are being presented for endorsement by the Human Rights Commission in March 2004.
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  Smash and grab: conflict, corruption and human rights abuses in the shrimp farming industry

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2003

  This paper focuses on the impacts of the global shrimp farming industry, one which is growing steadily, on local communities.It states that international donors have been promoting this industry as an alternative to wild shrimp trawling, but that the environmental and social impacts of farming have been ignored.
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  Deconstructing engagement: corporate self-regulation in conflict zones – implications for human rights and Canadian public policy

  Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003

  This paper examines the existing governance gap in the accountability of TNCs for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law associated with their extraterritorial operations. It assesses the adequacy of efforts at self-regulation that involves the development and implementation of voluntary standards and self-assessment and verification techniques.
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  Whose business?: a handbook on corporate responsibility for human rights and the environment

  Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, 2002

  This handbook aims to provide an introduction to the key issues driving efforts to promote corporate social responsibility and accountability worldwide.
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  Making a killing: the diamond trade in government-controlled DRC

  Amnesty International, 2002

  This paper reports on the dozens of people being shot dead, wounded or held without charge in appalling conditions in the diamond fields of Mbuji-Mayi.
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  The Niger Delta: no democratic dividend

  Human Rights Watch, 2002

  This paper reports that despite the election of a civilian government in 1999 and the supposed increased commitment of oil companies to corporate social responsibility, there is still widespread evidence of human rights abuses by the army, navy, and paramilitary Mobile Police deployed at oil facilities across the delta.
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  Corporate accountability in search of a treaty? Some insights from foreign direct liability

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2002

  This Briefing Paper looks at two sets of legal actions that attempted to secure transnational corporate accountability. The cases are examples of increasing efforts to establish ‘foreign direct liability’ – holding parent companies accountable in home country courts to people affected by their environmental, social or human rights impacts in other countries.
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  Principles relating to the human rights conduct of companies

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2000

  The document reports on the process of the commission in coming to define a draft code of conduct for transnational corporations.The author briefly outlines the need for such a code, difficulties involved with drafting it and the principles and previous treatise to be considered.

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