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Searching with a thematic focus on Corporate Social Responsibility, Business and human rights, Globalisation

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  Building national campaigns: activists, alliances, and how change happens 

  Oxfam, 2007

  Women workers are an increasing part of the global labour force. However, they often find only poor-quality employment, thus, they are working, but remain trapped in poverty. No matter the context, many women workers face multiple challenges.
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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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  Trade and the need to apply international corporate social responsibility (CSR) standards

  Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2005

  This paper identifies the differences, similarities and gaps between the trade, investment and corporate social responsibility agendas. It specifically aims to come up with concrete policy proposals in the areas of CSR, investment and trade policies at the (inter) governmental level.
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  The OECD guidelines for multi-national enterprises: an evolving legal status

  Sherpa, 2007

  This paper provides an overview of the growing sphere of influence of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It aims to open up avenues which will enable the influence of the current framework of positive law on MNEs to be strengthened and to consider international customary law that could enable the guidelines to find a place within hard-law institutions.
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  The dark side of healthcare: a report about Swedish county councils’ procurement of goods from India and Pakistan

  SwedWatch, 2007

  This report discusses Swedish county councils’ procurement of goods from India and Pakistan. The report reveals that simple surgical instruments, as well as patient wear, are produced for Swedish county councils in unacceptable working conditions that also lead to environmental destruction.
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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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  Building towers, cheating workers: exploitation of migrant construction workers in the United Arab Emirates

  Human Rights Watch, 2006

  This report documents alleged exploitation of construction workers by employers in the United Arab Emirates.
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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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  Building understanding

  Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights, 2003

  This is the first report of the Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights (BLIHR), a programme that attempts to help further integrate human rights in business policies and practices.
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  Sudan, oil, and human rights

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report examines the human cost of oil, and corporate complicity in the Sudanese government’s human rights abuses. It finds that oil is an important obstacle to lasting peace in Sudan, and oil revenues have been used by the government to obtain weapons and ammunition that have enabled it to intensify the war and expand oil development.