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Oct/2007: Oil and Mining in Violent Places. Why voluntary codes for companies don’t guarantee human rights. A Report by Global Witness (PDF/2,26 Mb)
Sept/2007: The state of responsible business: Global corporate response to environmental, social and governance challenges. A report by Ethical Investment Research Services (PDF/504 Kb)
Sep/2007: Measuring real value: a guide to social return on investment. By nef (PDF, 14 MB)
Sep/2007: CSR Frame of Reference 2007. By the MVO-Platform (PDF/1 MB)
June/2007: New Modes of Governance in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Self-Regulation by Industry in Europe. An EUI working paper (PDF/152 KB)
May/2007: Stakeholder Engagement: A Good Practice Handbook for Companies Doing Business in Emerging Markets. By the IFC (PDF/2,6 MB)
March/2007: Annual report on social responsibility of China textile and apparel industry. By RSCA (PDF/1,41 MB)
March/2007: Recommendations on Mining, Oil and Gas Companies Released: Civil Society and Industry Representatives Agree on Good Overseas Practices (PDF/2,2 MB
March/2007: Corporate social and environmental responsibility in India: assessing the UN Global Compact's role. Produced by GDI (PDF/608 KB)
March/2007: The effectiveness of multi-stakeholder initiatives in the oil and gas sector: summary report. By 2050 (PDF/72 KB)
March/2007: Corporate Social Responsibility of Multinational Corporations. By CMI (PDF; 336 KB)
Jan/2007: Why Corporate Social Responsibility is failing children (PDF/108 KB)
Dec/2006: Business proposals for effective ways of addressing dilemma situations in weak governance zones (PDF/80 KB)
Dec/2006: The Political Economy of Corporate Responsibility in India. An UNRISD Paper (PDF/1,51 MB)
Dec/2006: Report on corporate social responsibility: a new partnership. European Parliament (PDF; 152 KB)
Nov/2006: Corporate social responsibility at EU level. Proposals and recommendations. By ECCJ (PDF; 108 KB)
Nov/2006: Draft Report on corporate social responsibility: a new partnership. EU-Parliament (PDF/200 KB)
Oct. 2006: The ETI Code of Labour Practice: Do Workers Really Benefit? (PDF; 548 KB)
Oct/2006: Beyond Pragmatism. Appraising UN-Business Partnerships. By Peter Utting and Ann Zammit (PDF/1,2 MB)
July 2006: Keep It Legal: Best Practices for Keeping Illegally Harvested Timber Out of Your Supply Chain. By the WWF(PDF; 1,26 MB)
June 2006: Responsible Purchasing of Forest Products. By the WWF (PDF; 2,3 MB)
June/2006: A Guide for Integrating Human Rights into Business Management. BLIHR (PDF; 5,78 MB)
June/2006: Beyond CSR? Business, Poverty and Social Justice. By The International Research Network on Business, Development and Society. (PDF; 72 KB)
April/2006: Implementing the Partnership for Growth and Jobs: Making Europe a Pole of Excellence on Corporate Social Responsibility. By the EU Commission (PDF; 160 KB)
April/2006: New EU Communication on Corporate Social Responsibility: a Missed Opportunity. By FIDH and AI (PDF; 64 KB)
April/2006: Taxing issues. Responsible business and tax. By SustainAbility and Tax Research LLP (PDF; 724 KB)
March/2006: International Finance Corporation’s Policy and Performance Standards on Social & Environmental Sustainability (PDF; 477 KB)
March/2006: Corporate Social Responsobility - An Introduction From the Environmental Perpective (PDF; 484 KB)
March/2006: Experiences with voluntary standards initiatives and related multi-stakeholder dialogues. By GTZ (PDF/164 KB)
Jan/2006: Draft Sustainability Reporting Guidelines. By the Global Reporting Initiative (PDF; 712 KB)
Dec/2005: A Big Deal? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Finance Sector in Europe. By the Corporate Responsibility Coalition (PDF; 356 KB)
Dec/2005: Business - NGO Partnerships. An Ethical Corporation Report (PDF; 337 KB)
Nov/2005 Investment agreements and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): contradictions, incentives and policy options. SOMO Discussion paper 1 (PDF; 444 KB)
Sep/2005: CSR Issues in the ICT. A SOMO ICT Sector Report (PDF; 2,88 MB)
Sept/2005: Convergence of CSR management standards in Italy, Germany, France and the UK by developing and promoting a common CSR framework, terminology and management tools. From the Centre for Ethics, Law and Economics (PDF; 2 MB)
Aug/2005: Corporate Social Responsibility as Business Strategy. By James K. Rowe (PDF; 248 KB)
June/2005: Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee on Information and measurement instruments for corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a globalised economy (Word; 97 KB)
June/2005: Corporate responsibility and the movement of business. An UNRISD publication by Peter Utting (PDF; 96 KB)
Feb/2005 Following up the World Summit on Sustainable Development Commitments on Corporate Social Responsibility. Options for action by governments. By Chatham House (PDF; 1,8 MB)
Jan/2005: Corporate Social Responsibility: Perspectives from the South by SOMO, NL (PDF; 2,4 MB)
Dec/2004: Business Leaders Initiative on Human Rights. Report 2: Work in Progress (PDF; 3 MB)
Nov/2004: Civil society organizations and CSR: joining hands in Europe and Latin America by SOMO / ILO (PDF; 85 KB)
Oct/2004: Significance of the CSR debate for sustainability and the requirements for companies. (PDF; 174 KB)
July/2004: UNRISD Resource Guide on Regulating Corporations (PDF; 236 KB)
March/2004: A Critical Guide to Corporate Codes of Conduct: Voices from the South. By the Asia Monitor Resource Centre (PDF; 676 KB)
Feb/2004: Corporate Social Responsibility and Development: Towards a New Agenda? /Summaries of Presentations. An UNRISD Conference (PDF; 1,3 MB)
Feb/2004: Behind the mask: the real face of corporate social responsibility. Christian Aid (PDF; 1,1 MB)
Aug/2003: The Limits of Voluntarism. Corporate self-regulation, multistakeholder initiatives and the role of civil society WEED (PDF; 390 KB)
July/2003: Frame of Reference for corporate social responsibility (CSR) by the Coalition of Dutch CSOs & Trade Unions (PDF; 493 KB)
June/2003: Voluntary Approaches for Environmental Policy. Effectiveness, Efficiency and Usage in Policy Mixes. OECD (PDF; 896 KB)
June/2002: A Guide to the Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (PDF: 346 KB)
May/2001: Codes of Conduct -- Exploring their Economic Sinificance. By the Working Party of the Trade Committee of the OECD (PDF; 341 KB)
June/2000: Codes of Corporate Conduct - An Expanded Rreview of their Contents Publ. by the Working Party of the Trade Committee of the OECD (Word; 287 KB)

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