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  Improving working conditions at Chinese natural stone companies

  India Committee of the Netherlands, 2008

  In the last few years the Chinese natural stone industry has increasingly come into the spotlight as a result of poor working and environmental conditions. Municipalities in several European countries, including Sweden and the Netherlands, have started to include sustainability criteria in their procurement processes.
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  International investment agreements, business and human rights: key issues and opportunities

  International Institute for Sustainable Development, Winnipeg, 2008

  This paper responds to the need to identify and understand the linkages between international investment agreements (IIAs) and the debate on business and human rights. It provides a broad-based review of these linkages, focusing on the existing IIAs, and their relationship to business and human rights issues.
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  2007 review of the implementation status of Corporate Governance Disclosures: an inventory of disclosure requirements in 25 emerging markets

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2007

  This report provides a brief overview of recent developments in corporate governance since the twenty-third session of International Standards of Accounting and Reporting (ISAR). It also presents an analysis  of the results of the 2007 review of corporate governance disclosure practices.
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  How well do social ratings actually measure Corporate Social Responsibility?

  John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007

  Just like credit ratings improve transparency and efficiency in debt capital markets by reducing the information imbalance between borrowers and lenders, social ratings aim to provide social investors accurate information that makes transparent the extent to which firms’ behaviours are socially and environmentally responsible.
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  Progress not perfection: 10 years of making an impact

  Impactt, 2007

  This report reviews how debates and issues concerning labour standards and ethical supply chain management have evolved over the past ten years and also looks at Impactt's own involvement and work on these issues. It also draws key lessons from a series of case studies covering the most entrenched issues in tackling labour standards.
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  How Waitrose raised the bar for supply chain

  Business in the Community, UK, 2006

  Waitrose has established a set of ‘responsible sourcing principles’, outlining its expectations of its suppliers on issues such as labour standards, environmental management and animal welfare. This brief paper examines the following questions:
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  Costs benefits analysis of HIV workplace programmes in Zambia

  International Organization for Migration, 2007

  While companies participating in Zambia’s Global Development Alliance (GDA) programme acknowledge the benefits of HIV and AIDS programming in the workplace, the efficiency of such programming has not been documented. This study assesses the costs and benefits of workplace HIV and AIDS programmes of several companies in Zambia.
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  A journey to discover values: study of sustainability reporting in China

  SynTao, 2007

  Sustainability reporting initiatives have grown in popularity over the past decade, however the history of sustainability reporting in China is much shorter. The report documents the current status of sustainability reporting in China and highlights key trends.
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  Wal-Mart’s sweatshop monitoring fails to catch violations: the story of toys made in China for Wal-Mart

  Clean Clothes Campaign, 2007

  This paper investigates corporate misbehaviour by China’s eighth largest trading partner, Wal-Mart. The focus is on China’s export oriented toy industry and Wal-Mart’s unethical sourcing policies in five Chinese supplier factories.
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  Easy to manage: a report on Chinese toy workers and the responsibility of the companies

  Fair Trade Center, 2005

  This paper investigates violations of workers rights in the export industry of China. It particularly focuses on the manner in which Nordic toy companies are linked to these violations and it develops possible reasons of why the companies' ethical demands have not led to more improvements.

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