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  Assurance Standards Briefing: AA1000 Assurance Standard & ISAE3000

  AccountAbility, 2005

  This brief gives an overview of the content and application of the AA1000 Assurance Standard (AA1000AS) launched in March 2003 by AccountAbility and the IAASB’s International Standard on Assurance Engagements (ISAE3000), which from January 1st 2005 all professional accounting networks have to be compliant with.
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  The UN Global Compact: a primer on the principles

  World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 2004

  This document briefly outlines the basics of the Global Compact Principles, which are all based on concepts established in international agreements: The Universal Declaration of Human rights, the International Labour Organization Declaration of Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.The presentation of each principle includes an explanat
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  Enhancing positive corporate contributions to development: making corporate responsibility for development operational in the UNCTAD XI MTR context

  South Centre, 2006

  This briefing paper provides a discussion of the concept of corporate responsibility for development and examines existing initial initiatives in this area.
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  The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: the confidentiality principle, transparency and the specific instance procedure

  OECD Watch, 2006

  This brief explains the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises confidentiality principle. It examines what it is, when it is applicable, and when an interpretation of the principle is inconsistent with the Guidelines’ Procedural Guidance.
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  Corporate governance: observance of standards and codes

  World Bank, 2006

  As part of the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) programme by the World Bank and IMF, this internet resource brings together country by country implementation assessments. The goal of the ROSC initiative is to identify weaknesses that may contribute to a country’s economic and financial vulnerability.
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  Dialogue on globalisation: UN Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations

  Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung e.V., 2006

  This paper assesses opportunities and constraints of the UN Norms on the Responsibilities of Transnational Corporations and Other Business Enterprises with Regard to Human Rights.
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  The UN Global Compact: a contribution to sustainable development?

  ProSus, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, 2005

  This paper explores and debates the Global Compact as a contribution to the goal of sustainable development, focusing on the Global Compact in a larger, political economy context.The paper argues that:the Global Compact has a high potential for changing company practices at the micro level by rendering legitimacy to the idea of corporate responsibility and by framing ongoing CSR-activit
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  A critical guide to corporate codes of conduct: voices from the South

  Asia Monitor Resource Center, 2004

  This book examines the nature of corporate codes of conduct in Asia, and assesses how they can be utilised in improving working conditions of Asian workers.
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  Integrated reporting: issues and implications for reporters

  Vancity, 2005

  This paper examines the issues involved in integrated reporting, i.e. reporting that meets the needs of both statutory financial reporting and sustainability reporting, and their implications for reporting organisations.
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  Gender, rights and participation in the Kenya cut flower industry

  Natural Resources Institute, UK, 2002

  This paper considers the impact of codes of conduct on women’s employment conditions in the cut flower industry in Kenya. Cut flower production is now a major part of the Kenyan economy, but the country’s success in supplying European markets has brought with it increased attention to the industry’s social and environmental impacts.

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