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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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  The Kimberley Process: the case for proper monitoring

  Partnership Africa Canada, 2002

  This paper describes the outcomes of the Kimberley Process, which aims to create a certification system for rough diamonds, so excluding illicit diamonds, which fuel conflict, from the global diamond trade.The author focuses on the provisions the process has made for monitoring certified diamonds.
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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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  Towards global corporate social responsibility

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

  This paper discusses the definition of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the boundaries to which responsibilities should be limited and the initiatives being taken at an international level by various different actors in the field of CSR.
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  Holiday footprinting: a practical tool for responsible travel

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2002

  Holiday Footprinting is a tool that enables tour operators to calculate the environmental impact, or ecological “footprint”, that a holiday product has on the environment in terms of resources used.
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  "Blowing the whistle" and the case for cruise certification: a matter of environmental and social justice under international law

  Oceans Blue Foundation, 2002

  In the context of a number of complaints being made against cruise companies' environmental and social responsibility, this report calls for certification of companies by an independent body in order to bring credibility to the claims made by many cruise corporations of environmental and social compliance with laws and ethics.The author outlines recent cases of 'whistle blowing' from within and
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  Managing the competitive transition of the coffee sector in Central America

  2002

  This paper provides background information for a conference on ways to address the coffee crisis in Central America. The document is divided into six sectionsthe nature of the crisis and its magnitude ways to improve the quality of Central American coffee, as a strategic competitive response to the crisismarket opportunities and marketing management issues to be considered by co
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  Report of the proceedings of the first International Coffee Organisation conference

  International Coffee Organization, 2001

  This document provides a summary of all of the papers at the fist conference of the International coffee organisation (ICO).
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  The European response to public demands for global corporate responsibility

  Harvard Institute for International Development, Cambridge Mass., 2002

  This paper stresses that European firms may pose a threat to US multinationals in the future due to the fact that many have embraced corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a rationale to guide their business practices. In addition, European governments at the national and multinational levels have developed a wide range of policies to encourage socially responsible business practices.
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  Burma: companies, NGOs and the new diplomacy

  Chatham House [Royal Institute of International Affairs], UK, 2001

  Burma, also known as Myanmar, is an important case study in wider international debates on the politics of sanctions versus constructive engagement, as well as the role of companies and NGOs, when trying to encourage political dialogue and progress in controversial states.

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