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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)
August/2007: ‘Out of work and into school’. Proposed Action Plan to Combat Child labour. (PDF/240 KB)
June/2007: Business and Human Right: The Evolving International Agenda. By John Ruggie (PDF/1,53 MB)
May/2007: State Responsibilities to Regulate and Adjudicate Corporate Activities under the United Nations’ core Human Rights Treaties. (PDF/688 KB)
May/2007: Equality at work: Tackling the challenges. By ILO. (PDF/1,7 Mb)
April/2007: Who Pays?: how British supermarkets are keeping women workers in poverty. By Actionaid (PDF/5,93 MB)
March/2007: Oral NGO-Intervention on behalf of the Report of the Special Representative to the Secretary General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (PDF/264 KB)
March/2007: Private security companies and human rights. A BHR statement (PDF/176 KB)
March/2007: Annual report on social responsibility of China textile and apparel industry. By RSCA (PDF/1,41 MB)
Feb/2007: State Responsibilities to Regulate Corporate Activities under UN Core Treaties. By John Ruggie (PDF/112 KB)
Jan/2007: Why Corporate Social Responsibility is failing children (PDF/108 KB)
Nov/2006: Extraterritorial legislation as a tool to improve the accountability of transnational corporations for human rights violations. Summary report (PDF/192 KB)
Nov 2006: Attributing Corporate Responsibility for Human Rights under International Law. A UN-Workshop (PDF/56 KB)
Oct/2006: Women’s General & Reproductive Health in Global Supply Chains. A BSR Report. (PDF/3,25 MB)
Oct. 2006: The ETI Code of Labour Practice: Do Workers Really Benefit? (PDF; 548 KB)
Sept/2006: Human Rights Policies and Management Practices of Fortune Global 500 Firms: Results of a Survey (PDF; 112 KB)
Sept/2006: Commerce, Crime and Conflict. Legal Remedies for Private Sector Liability for Grave Breaches of Internationale Law (PDF/188 KB)
June/2006: A Guide for Integrating Human Rights into Business Management. BLIHR (PDF; 5,78 MB)
June/2006: Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Unions Rights. ICFTU (PDF; 1,89 MB)
May/2006: Human Rights, Trade and Investment Matters. Articles compiled by Amnesty International. (PDF; 700 KB)
May/2006: Offside! Labour rights and sportswear production in Asia. By OXFAM (PDF; 740 KB)
May 2006: ILO – UN Standards: Synergies or Competition? By Heidi Feldt. (PDF/ 930 KB)
March/2006: International Finance Corporation’s Policy and Performance Standards on Social & Environmental Sustainability (PDF; 477 KB)
March/2006: Living Wages: The GRI’s Missing Link. By the The Jus Semper Global Alliance (PDF; 541 KB)
Jan/2006: Private Companies and the Public Interest: Why Corporations Should Welcome Global Human Rights Rules. By Human Rights Watch (PDF; 186 KB)
Jan/2006: The 2005 Business & Human Rigths Seminar Report: Exploring Responsibility and Complicity (PDF; 321 KB)
Dec/2005: Made by Women. Gender, the Global Garment Industry and the Movement for Women Workers’ Rights. By the Clean Clothes Campaign (PDF; 4,32 MB)
Dec/2005: Coming clean on the clothes we wear. A Survey of Labour Standards Reporting by Retailers and Brands Selling Clothes in the Canadian Market. By Ethical Trading Action Group (ETAG) in association with AccountAbility (PDF; 985 KB)
Nov/2005 Joint NGO Submission to the Consutation on Human Rigths and the Extractive Industriy. By ESCR-NET, Corporate Accountability Working Group (PDF; 360 KB)
Nov /2005 Trade and the need to apply international Corporate Social Responsibility standards. SOMO Discussion paper 2 (PDF; 414 KB)
Nov/2005 “Human rights and the extractive industry”. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the sectoral consultation (PDF; 120 KB)
Oct/2005: A legal Framework for the integration of environmental, social and governance issues into institutional investment. By Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer for the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (PDF; 1 MB)
Sep/2005: CSR Issues in the ICT. A SOMO ICT Sector Report (PDF; 2,88 MB)
Sept/2005: Exploring the Links Between International Business and Poverty Reduction: A Case Study of Unilever in Indonesia (An Oxfam GB, Novib, Unilever, and Unilever Indonesia joint research project) (PDF; 960 KB)
June/2005: Supermarket Practices: The need for EU wide action. An AAI paper. (PDF; 228 KB)
April/2005: Social Standards in Bilateral and Regional Trade and Investment Agreements. Instruments, Enforcement, and Policy Options for Trade Unions. A FES-Paper (PDF; 716 KB)
Dec/2004: Steps toward Corporate Accountability for Human Rights. An ESCR-Net Report to OHCHR on the Human Rights Responsibilities of Business (PDF; 120 KB)
Nov/2004: Nigeria - Are human rights in the pipeline? An Amnesty International publication (PDF; 248 KB)
July/2004: Protecting Labour Rights Through Trade Agreements: An Analytical Guide. Polaski (PDF/60 KB
June/2004: Human Security and Transnational Corporations - The entanglement of transnational corporations in wars, human rights violations and tax evasion. WEED publication (PDF; 611 KB)
March/2004: Joint views of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the International Organisation of Employers (IOE) on the draft "Norms on the responsibilities of transnational corporations and other business enterprises with regard to human rig
March/2004: Briefing Paper on the Joint NGO-Statement of Support for the UN Human Rights Norms for Business (Word; 49 KB)
March/2004: "Clean up your computer. Working conditions in the electronic sector" A CAFOD publication (PDF; 311 KB)
Feb/2004: Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains. An OXFAM report. (PDF; 2,1 MB)
Sept/2003: Export Processing Zones. Symbols of Exploitation and Development Dead-End. ICFTU (PDF; 230 KB)
Aug/2003: The Limits of Voluntarism. Corporate self-regulation, multistakeholder initiatives and the role of civil society WEED (PDF; 390 KB)
Dec/2002: A tool for achieving workers’ rights - IMF Special report on International Framework Agreements (PDF; 76 KB)
June/2002: A Guide to the Tripartite Declaration of Principles Concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy (PDF: 346 KB)

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