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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, 2003This 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.DocumentOil: a life cycle analysis of it health and environmental impacts
Harvard Medical School, 2002This report attempts to provide a framework for evaluating the true costs of our use of oil.DocumentNo writing on the wall: sustainable development as a business principle in the supply chain
The Nordic Partnership, 2003This paper reports and discusses the results of a survey on initiatives to address sustainability in business supply chains.DocumentNatural resources, development models and sustainable development
Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 2003This paper starts from the optimistic assumption that the policies required for environmentally sustainable economic development are known but difficulties surround their implementation. The paper argues that in the low-income countries differences in the natural resource endowment are an important and hitherto neglected cause of tardy environmental policy improvements.DocumentSustainable ecotourism and eco-enterprise opportunities in the Gulf of Mannar, Tamil Nadu, India
Pro-Poor Tourism Partnership, 2002The aim of this study was to identify suitable ecotourism products and eco-enterprises that would provide income generation opportunities for local fishers in the Gulf of Mannar (GOM), Tamil Nadu.DocumentHIV/AIDS workplace tools: manager's kit
HIV at work, 2003This online Manager's Kit includes resources businesses need to build comprehensive HIV/AIDS workplace programs.DocumentToo many codes of practice? Towards cohesion and sustainability in ethical trade
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Ethical trade is becoming sexy. Codes of practice to help companies monitor social and environmental performance and relationships with suppliers are proliferating. Why are there so many? Why has there been greater concern for the environment than for the welfare of developing country workers at the end of supply chains? Can ethical sourcing and sustainability come to be part of the same agenda?DocumentTalking to the enemy - NGOs engage with business
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Can non-governmental organisations (NGOs) benefit from talking to the ‘enemy’ or private corporations? What could they achieve by engaging with the private sector? Would it benefit their cause or is it a waste of time pursuing their agendas through the market?DocumentCompanies change tack. Can they achieve development goals through ethical trade?
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002How useful is ethical trade in addressing global development issues? Private companies are now taking greater social responsibility for improving employment conditions in the export markets that supply them by way of corporate codes of conduct.DocumentCorporate social responsibility: Central American women speak out
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002Codes of conduct are currently failing to meet their potential to improve the lives of many workers because they are not being developed, implemented and monitored in partnership with their intended beneficiaries. Instead, they have been shaped by a narrow set of commercial interests. What needs to be done to address this state of affairs?Pages