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  Gender, rights and participation in the Kenya cut flower industry

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2002

  This paper considers the impact of codes of conduct on women’s employment conditions in the cut flower industry in Kenya. Cut flower production is now a major part of the Kenyan economy, but the country’s success in supplying European markets has brought with it increased attention to the industry’s social and environmental impacts.
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  Internationally recognised core labour standards in Israel

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2006

  This report assesses the respect and the observance of internationally recognised core labour standards in Israel.Altogether Israel has ratified all of the eight core ILO labour Conventions, however there are still imporvements to be made:Israel has ratified both the core ILO conventions protecting trade union rights.
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  Acer: company profile

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005

  The company profile on Acer aims to identify critical issues in Acer’s supply chain from the perspective of poverty eradication and sustainable development. In order to identify the labour issues in Acer’s supply chain, research was undertaken on the working conditions in four factories in China and one in the Philippines.
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  Fujitsu Siemens Computers: company profile

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005

  This report examines the CSR record of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. As the report highlights, Fujitsu Siemens Computers and its parent companies Fujitsu and Siemens have elaborate policies on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), especially in relation to the environment.
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  Coming clean on the clothes we wear

  AccountAbility, 2005

  The Transparency Report Card assesses and compares 25 apparel retailers and brands selling apparel products in the Canadian market in terms of their efforts to address worker rights issues in their global supply chains and on how and what they report on those efforts.Companies are rated according to their programmes to achieve compliance with recognised international labour standards in the fac
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  White gold: the true cost of cotton: Uzbekistan, cotton and the crushing of a nation

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2005

  This report details cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan. The authors argue that this industry represents one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world, violating human rights and causing major damage to the environment.The document examines the political background in Uzbekistan and the regime’s practice of using child labour.
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  Indian attraction: profitable multinationals as subsidy junkies: a study of incentives for foreign investment in India

  FinnWatch, 2005

  This report examines incentives offered to investors in India by the central government in New Delhi as well as the different state governments.
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  Whose miracle?: how China's workers are paying the price for its economic boom

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005

  This report examines the rapid economic growth of China, and argues that this boom could only occur on the backs of the people it was supposed to benefit.
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  Internationally recognised core labour standards in Romania

  International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 2005

  This report assesses the respect and the observance of internationally recognised core labour standards in Romania.
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  Day and night at the factory: working conditions of temporary workers in the factories of Nokia and its suppliers in southern China

  Export Credit Agencies International NGO Campaign, 2005

  This report aims to summarise working conditions at Nokia’s joint venture in Dongguan and at the factories of Nokia’s subcontractors.

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