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  What makes Nigerian manufacturing firms take action on HIV/AIDS?

  Department of International Health, Boston School of Public Health, 2002

  The author argues that an understanding of why some firms take action on HIV/AIDS and other do not is essential for policy makers attempting to address the pandemic and involve the private sector. To this end a survey was conducted of over 200 manufacturing firms in Nigeria.This paper presents the results from that survey.
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  Reporting guidance on HIV/AIDS: a GRI resource document

  Global Reporting Initiative, 2003

  This is part of the wider reporting guidelines produced by the GRI to assist companies in reporting on issues of accountability and to become more transparent.
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  Sustainability reporting guidelines 2002

  Global Reporting Initiative, 2002

  This document provides company guidelines for reporting on sustainability.
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  International right to know:empowering communities through corporate transparency

  Friends of the Earth, 2003

  This campaign document begins by describing the Bhopal disaster and uses it as an example of US companies failing to disclose information, in their operations abroad, that affect the health of workers, neighbours and other citizens. The International Right to Know coalition believes campaigns to address the gap in information about U.S.
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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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  Tunnel vision: women, mining and communities

  Oxfam, 2002

  Provides practical examples of situations where women and children have consistently suffered disproportionately from the negative impacts of mining projects due to the policies and behaviour of the companies involved.The following list represents a consolidation of grievances expressed by women during the research:companies only entering into negotiations with men, making women neither
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  Case studies of good practice for sustainable tourism

  Tour Operators Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development, 2002

  This web page provides links to 17 case studies of tour operators in the following business areas:working with suppliersworking with destinationsraising the awareness of customersmanagement of their own organizationsThe case studies are individually downloadable and each illustrates a different action that can be taken by tourism businesses to become more sustainable.
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  Tourism - an ethical issue: market research report

  Tearfund, 2000

  This document reports the findings of a telephone based market research survey of 2,000 members of the general public, which asked what consideration they give to ethical issues when booking their holidays, and in what ways they would be willing to change their behaviour.The main findings of the survey were:when choosing a holiday tourists' three main criteria are weather, cost and good
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  A practical guide to good practice: managing environmental and social issues in the accommodations sector

  Tour Operators Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development, 2003

  This handbook for accommodation providers is organised by issues. It provides an overview of ten environmental and social issues that the authors consider critical to the long-term success of the accommodations sector. For each issue, they offer a brief summary, the rationale for good practices and examples of what hotels around the world are doing.
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  Aviation and the environment: using economic instruments

  2003

  This is an outline document of the options available to the UK government in ensuring that the aviation industry is encouraged to take account of, and where appropriate reduce, its contribution to global warming, local air and noise pollution.The report states that the government's objectives for aviation include sustainability and the polluter pays principle.

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