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  Rana Plaza tragedy and beyond: an update on commitments and delivery

  Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014

  The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised a dialogue entitled Rana Plaza Tragedy and Beyond: An Update on Commitments and Delivery January 2014, Dhaka. This was the second dialogue held under CPD’s Post-Rana Plaza Monitoring Initiative undertaken in partnership with a number of civil society organisations.
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  Towards a more equitable outcome from Rio plus 20

  Research and Information System for Developing Countries, 2012

  The “Rio plus 20” summit being held on 20-22 June 2012 provides an opportunity to launch a process for forging a new global compact, underpinned by greater equity and policy space for the developing countries, for dealing with sustainable development in an integrated and holistic fashion, and for moving away from the ‘silo’-mentality.
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  A consumer protection initiative for Islamabad

  Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 1994

  The International Organization of Consumers Unions (IOCU), In collaboration with Dr Zafar Mirza of Network organised a workshop on consumer protection in March 1994 to identify consumer concerns in terms of the protection of their rights and to help initiate consumer action in Pakistan.
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  Trade-related issues for possible inclusion in the Human Rights Treaty monitoring process

  threeD, 2008

  The questions and comments included in this document are the result of internet based research posed by the United Nations (UN) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to States parties. The document contains 10 articles related to basic human rights.
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  Towards a single development vision and the role of the single economy

  Caribbean Community Secretariat, 2007

  This report is meant to provide a vision for the development of the Caribbean Community to which all stakeholders can give their support. It aims to serve as a basis for decisions by the Heads of Government on a ‘road map’ for the further implementation of the Caricom Single Market and Economy.
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  Planting the rights seed: a human rights perspective on agriculture trade and the WTO

  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, 2005

  The report critically examines the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture (AoA).
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  Globalising women's rights: confronting unequal development between the UN rights framework and the WTO trade agreements

  Women in Development Europe, 2004

  This paper is a report of WIDE’s annual conference from 2004, held at the Gustav-Stresemann-Institute, in Bonn from 21-22 May. The report includes summaries of the main seminars held.
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  Analytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004

  This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.
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  International investment and human rights: political and legal issues

  Rights and Democracy, International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, 2003

  This paper constitutes an exploratory examination of some of the issues involved in the foreign investment-human rights nexus. It studies the patterns of global investment flows and the legal mechanisms that regulate them, as well as human rights legislation.
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  Smash and grab: conflict, corruption and human rights abuses in the shrimp farming industry

  Environmental Justice Foundation, 2003

  This paper focuses on the impacts of the global shrimp farming industry, one which is growing steadily, on local communities.It states that international donors have been promoting this industry as an alternative to wild shrimp trawling, but that the environmental and social impacts of farming have been ignored.

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