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  Market failure: the case for mandatory social and environmental reporting

  New Economics Foundation, 2002

  The evidence to date shows that the market does not provide sufficient incentives for companies to report on their social and environmental impacts on a voluntary basis.Voluntary reporting overlooks the fact that governments have a distinct responsibility to provide an adequate framework not only to protect citizens' rights, but to ensure that basic needs are met.
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  Governance and supply chains: an ethical approach to responsibility

  Ethical Trading Initiative, UK, 2001

  This paper examines the advent of the Ethical Trading Initiative as a new dimension of corporate governance responsibility in today's buyer-driven, marketer based supply chain.
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  Corporate crimes, the need for an international instrument on corporate accountability and liability

  Greenpeace International, 2002

  The paper argues strongly for an international instrument of corporate responsibility, accountability and liability. It states that voluntary agreements, on which governments are relying, achieve very little.
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  Principles relating to the human rights conduct of companies

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2000

  The document reports on the process of the commission in coming to define a draft code of conduct for transnational corporations.The author briefly outlines the need for such a code, difficulties involved with drafting it and the principles and previous treatise to be considered.
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  Approaches to ethical trade: impact and lessons learned

  Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 2000

  The authors define four different approaches to ethical trade and examine both their individual features, their opportunities and limitations.The approaches identified are:changing the climate, led by NGOs, consumer boycotts and soon'from the top' - i.e.
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  The business response to HIV/AIDS: impact and lessons learned

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2000

  This report states that the private sector is in a unique position to respond to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, because of its contacts with employees and the wider business community, and the wealth of experience and skills it has accumulated.
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  Corporate citizenship: revisiting the relationship between business, good governance and sustainable development

  International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002

  This paper starts from the premise that Agenda 21 had become outdated since the first Earth Summit in 1992 because of its largely environmental focus.
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  Eskom: corporate powerhouse or green company?

  Corporate Watch, 2002

  Eskom will be South Africa's number one Corporate Environmentalism Exhibit, during the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, despite having contravened two of the Global Compact principles.The author details the negative behaviour of Eskom.
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  Introduction to corporate social responsibility

  Business for Social Responsibility, 2000

  This paper provides an introduction to corporate social responsibility (CSR) from a business perspective, both for researchers and business practitioners, and includes a number of links to wider resources on CSR issues.The first section looks at evidence for CSR leading to improved business performance and finds that CSR has:improved financial performancereduced operating costse
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  Beyond philanthropy: the pharmaceutical industry, corporate social responsibility and the developing world

  Save the Children Fund, 2002

  This paper argues that responsible pharmaceutical companies must have policies on access to treatment for developing countries which include the five priorities of: pricing; patents; joint public private initiatives (JPPIs); research and development (R&D); and the appropriate use of drugs.

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