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Searching with a thematic focus on Labour standards, Corporate Social Responsibility

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  Core labor standards handbook

  Asian Development Bank, 2006

  This handbook provides information about core labour standards (CLS), explains the difference between core and other (non-core) labour standards, and presents examples of good practices in the application of CLS in operations of the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
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  Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report documents alleged exploitation of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates.
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  Behind the great wall of China: U.S. corporations opposing new rights for Chinese workers

  Global Labor Strategies, 2006

  China is planning to adopt a new labour law aimed at improving worker’s rights and labour conditions in the country.
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  From quarry to graveyard: Corporate social responsibility in the natural stone sector

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2006

  This report seeks to provide a better understanding of the natural stone sector, in particular quarrying and processing in India and imports and consumption in the Netherlands.
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  Special briefing: labour issues and the Equator principles

  Ergon, 2006

  This briefing paper outlines the labour components of the revised Equator principles - Equator II - to assist signatories, their clients and other stakeholders in understanding the new requirements.
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  North Korea: workers’ rights at the Kaesong Industrial Complex

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This briefing paper provides an overview of the work conditions at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC), which was opened by The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) in June 2004 under a contract with Hyundai Asan Corporation and state-owned Korea Land Corporation of the Republic of Korea (ROK, South Korea).
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  Corporate Social Responsibility in Latin America: Chiquita, women banana workers and structural inequalities

  Siyanda, 2004

  The paper explores Chiquita’s corporate social responsibility policy and how Nicaraguan women banana workers view the policy and its implementation. The women express that the CSR policy of the company makes little difference on the ground and provide some recommendations for better implementation.
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  Made by women: gender, the global garment industry and the movement for women worker’s rights

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2006

  This report highlights the importance of gender in the garment industry. As women make up a significant portion of the garment industry’s workforce, gender plays an important role in determining working conditions, worker’s rights, and wages. This paper highlights a number of gender concerns within this industry, by providing a series of profiles on women workers, activists, and organisations.
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  Piece by piece: how the overtime pay of piece-rate workers in China is falling short

  Verité, 2006

  This brief examines and assesses legal and logistical problems of overtime payment for piece- rate workers in China, i.e. production workers whose compensation is determined per task/piece completed as opposed to earning an hourly wage.
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  The life of football factory workers in Thailand

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2006

  This study assesses two football producers, Mikasa Industries (Thailand) and Molten Thailand, which are both Japanese investment companies producing footballs, volleyballs and basketballs for export.

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