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  Race to the top: a report on ethical business campaigns

  Business Ethics Network, 2005

  This report considers lessons learnt and future strategies for ethical business campaigns. Divided into two parts, the document reflects on the successes and failures of ethical campaigns and draws on the thoughts and experiences of participants at an ethical business workshop.The following points are raised:there is a need to attack problems by advocating solutions.
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  When in China: encounters with Human Rights

  Amnesty International, 2006

  This paper provides guidance for companies doing business in China on how they can best avoid human rights violations. In order to do so, it provides an overview of the Chinese economy as well as the most frequent human rights violations.
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  Private companies and the public interest: why corporations should welcome global human rights rules

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  As part of the 2006 Human Rights Watch World Report, this essay examines why corporations should welcome global enforceable human rights rules.
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  Human rights: it is your business. The case for corporate engagement

  International Business Leaders Forum, 2005

  This paper examines a rising tide of expectations faced by business from a range of stakeholders on the issue of business and human rights. The authors summarise these expectations and, in the context of greater public and media scrutiny address the impact of business on society.
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  Where do you draw the line? Research into the financial links between five bank groups and companies that abuse human rights

  Netwerk Vlaanderen, 2005

  This paper explores the financial links between banks and companies which abuse human rights.
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  White gold: the true cost of cotton: Uzbekistan, cotton and the crushing of a nation

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2005

  This report details cotton production in the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan. The authors argue that this industry represents one of the most exploitative enterprises in the world, violating human rights and causing major damage to the environment.The document examines the political background in Uzbekistan and the regime’s practice of using child labour.
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  The UN Norms on Corporate Human Rights Responsibilities: an innovating instrument to strengthen business' human rights performance

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2005

  This paper offers an overview of the Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with regard to Human Rights (the Norms), which the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, a sub-body of the UN Commission on Human Rights, drafted in 2003.The Norms have a "hybrid nature" which amount to both a recommendation and a clarificati
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  Human Rights Compliance Assessment: quick guide

  Human Rights and Business Project, 2005

  Rights Compliance Assessment is a diagnostic tool designed to promote corporate social responsibility by providing companies with useful information about how to avoid human rights violations in all aspects of their operations.
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  Human security, corporate accountability and the regulation of trade and investment

  Canadian Consortium on Human Security, 2004

  This paper explores the current disconnection between trade and investment, on the one hand, and human rights on the other, both at the international and domestic level.
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  Contracting out of human rights: the Chad–Cameroon pipeline project

  Amnesty International, 2005

  Will an oil pipeline investment agreement between the governments of Chad and Cameroon and a consortium led by ExxonMobil, including Chevron and Petronas pose a serious threat to human rights in Chad and Cameroon?

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