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  Corporate control and accountability in supply chains of Multinational Corporations: clarifications and managerial implications

  International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, Nottingham University Business School, 2007

  This paper challenges the assumption that firms should be accountable for the practices of their suppliers. It agues that it is inappropriate to hold any particular firm responsible for the practice of another firm, unless there is a clear link between the action of one firm to the action of another. 
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  Towards corporate accountability for human and environmental rights abuses

  European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ), 2007

  This paper addresses options that the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) intends to explore, both at the international level and at European Union level,  which would improve the legal accountability of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) for human rights and environmental rights abuses.
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  European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) (ECCJ)

  ECCJ is an initiative from 16 European organisations which aims to ensure that corporations’ drive for profit is balanced by the interest of society at large, by promoting legally enforceable
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  The business of global poverty

  Harvard Business School, 2007

  This document discusses work from members of Harvard’s business school global poverty project (GPP). It specifically details the GPP’s claim that business could play a crucial role in reducing poverty in the twenty first century. 
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  Why social corporate responsibility is failing children

  Corporate Responsibility Coalition, 2007

  This report reviews three voluntary corporate social responsibility codes and finds that voluntary codes are failing to protect children from exploitation and unethical dangerous marketing practices that risk children’s lives.
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  CSR and developing countries: what scope for government action?

  Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, 2007

  Public policy and public sector actors in middle and low-income countries are increasingly confronted with issues related to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
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  Undue influence: corporations gain ground in battle over China's new labor law: but human rights and labor advocates are pushing back

  Global Labor Strategies, 2007

  This paper describes the behind-the-scenes battle that is raging over reforms in China’s labour law. U.S.-based and other global corporations have been aggressively lobbying the Chinese government to weaken or abandon significant pro-worker reforms it had proposed in March 2006.
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  Stitching for South Africa: taking responsibility for working conditions in garment supply chains for South African retailers

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2007

  This report explores the labour standards and corporates social responsibility (CSR) codes of South African garment retailers. Short profiles of several South African retailers are presented, along with available information on their CSR policies and practices.
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  Understanding the obligations of non-state actors in the realisation of children’s rights

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2007

  National and international laws and conventions have long declared the obligation of states to protect children’s rights.
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  Corporate social and environmental responsibility in India: assessing the UN Global Compact’s role

  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik / German Development Institute (GDI), 2007

  This report assesses the impact of the current the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) on industry in India. The paper dicusses the history of CSR and India and the more recent experience with multi-stakeholder initiatives.

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