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    Getting down to business: lessons from the African Peer Review Mechanism

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    The Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) is an initiative aimed at fostering good governance and development in its participating states. As part of its multi-pronged inquiry, it devotes a great deal of attention to investigating corporate governance on the continent. However, thus far corporate governance has attracted less attention than any other area of the APRM.
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    ‘Good Citizens’: corporate social responsibility in Africa

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014
    Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a growing consideration for businesses. The Country Review Reports (CRRs) compiled through the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) provide a unique lens through which CSR application in Africa can be gauged.
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    Business and Human Rights: An Oxfam perspective on the UN Guiding Principles

    Oxfam, 2013
    This concise overview of the guiding principles, also known as the Ruggie Framework, clearly sets out the responsibilities of businesses to respect human rights. It contains case studies from Oxfam's work and examples of actions companies can take to improve their human rights record.
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    Business and human rights: the evolving international agenda

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
    The state-based system of global governance has struggled for more than a generation to regulate the expanding reach and growing influence of transnational corporations. This paper reviews two recent chapters of this effort, focused especially on human rights:
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    Rights-compatible grievance mechanisms: a guidance tool for companies and their stakeholders

    John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2008
    This document provides guidance for effective grievance mechanisms in the context of corporate social responsibility. It provides a tool for companies and their local stakeholders to work out rights-compatible, effective grievance mechanisms integrating human rights norms and standards into its processes.
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Company operations in weak governance zones: a practical guide for non-extractive industries

    Fundación Ideas para la Paz, 2006
    The paper discusses a voluntary business code of conduct based on the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights for non-extractive industries operating in weak governance zones.

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