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  Development, peace and human rights in Colombia: a business agenda

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2006

  The report demonstrates how companies can work in partnership with other stakeholders to create conditions for lasting peace and prosperity.
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  Undermining freedom of expression in China: the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google

  Amnesty International, 2006

  This briefing paper provides an overview of the use of the Internet as a tool to deny freedom of expression in China, focusing on both the Chinese government’s suppression of dissent and on the role of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google in collaborating with the authorities.
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  OECD risk awareness tool for multinational enterprises in weak governance zones

  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006

  The OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones - defined as an investment environment in which governments are unable or unwilling to assume their responsibilities - aims to help companies that invest in countries where governments are unwilling or unable to assume their responsibilities.
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  A guide for integrating human rights into business management

  Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights, 2006

  This guide aims at helping companies make human rights a successful part of their business. Following the Global Compact Performance Model, the guide is a technical manual and a hands-on toolkit helping any company integrate practices consistent with human rights standards into an existing management system.
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  Fighting poverty: a business opportunity (Report of the 10th International Business Forum)

  World Bank Institute, World Bank, 2005

  This report presents highlights and findings from the Tenth International Business Leaders Forum, the purpose of which was to facilitate an exchange within the business community on actions that can promote the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).Points raise at the Forum include:one of the conditions that is needed to accelerate progress toward achieving the MDGs is
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  Africa and the corporate citizenship agenda: a discussion paper for the Kenya Mirror Committee on ISO 26000

  Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2006

  This paper argues that the Corporate Citizenship discourse can benefit from the African context because of both the African economic system and African values and philosophies.In terms of the economic system, the paper highlights that pre-colonial African economies functioned as self-regulated markets anchored in the principles of economic democracy:organisation of production and distri
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  Transparency in the profit-making world

  Initiative for Policy Dialogue, Columbia University, 2006

  This paper examines the issue of access to corporate information and transparency in the private sector. It lays out the history and reasoning for corporate secrecy, and also addresses transparency concerns raised in particular by the privatisation of essential services.
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  On corporate responsibility for human rights

  Global Compact, 2006

  This briefing by the Special Advisor to the Secretary General on the Global Compact, examines key issues in the debate on business and human rights. The brief discusses the notions as bearers of rights need corresponding bearers of obligations. It also looks at different generations of human rights, and the the human rights principles of the UN Global Compact as a reference framework.
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  Aboriginal engagement and sustainability compendium

  Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, 2005

  This guidebook outlines the outcomes of the 'Building Sustainable Relationships: Aboriginal Engagement and Sustainability' conference. It looks at aboriginal engagement in the context of sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Canada’s natural resources sectors, particularly the mining, oil and gas, forestry, and energy industries.
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  The 2005 business and human rights seminar report: exploring responsibility and complicity

  Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, 2005

  This document outlines the 2005 Business and Human Rights Seminar which explored the issue of business responsibility and complicity with regard to human rights abuses.

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