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Okt/2007: Act Now! A Campaigner’s Guide to the Companies Act (PDF/1,63 Mb)
Dec/2006: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction as a tool for improving the Human Rights Accountability of Transnational Corporations. By de Schutter (PDF/432 KB)
Nov/2006: Corporate social responsibility at EU level. Proposals and recommendations. By ECCJ (PDF; 108 KB)
Sept/2006: Commerce, Crime and Conflict. Legal Remedies for Private Sector Liability for Grave Breaches of Internationale Law (PDF/188 KB)
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: OECD Risk Awareness Tool for Multinational Enterprises in Weak Governance Zones (PDF; 888 KB)
May/2006: Human Rights, Trade and Investment Matters. Articles compiled by Amnesty International. (PDF; 700 KB)
Feb/2006: Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Interim report of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations and other business enterprises (Summary; PDF; 109 KB)
Jan/2006: Turbo-Charging Investor Sovereignty. Investment Agreements and Corporate Colonialism. By Nicholas Hildyard and Greg Muttitt for Focus on the Global South (PDF; 1,9 MB)
Jan/2006: Foreign Direct Investment, Development and Gender Equity: A Review of Research and Policy. UNRISD (PDF; 495 KB)
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 Investment agreements and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): contradictions, incentives and policy options. SOMO Discussion paper 1 (PDF; 444 KB)
Nov /2005 Trade and the need to apply international Corporate Social Responsibility standards. SOMO Discussion paper 2 (PDF; 414 KB)
Oct/2005: The Trade and Environmental Effects of Ecolabels: Assessment and Response. By United Nations Environment Programme (PDF; 556 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)
Sept/2005: Lifting the Lid on Foreign Investment Contracts: The Real Deal for Sustainable development. By th International Institute for Environment and Development (PDF; 160 KB)
Sept/2005: UK Food Group Briefing - Achieving fairness in trading between supermarkets and their agrifood supply chains (PDF; 207 KB)
Aug/2005: Rethinking Business Regulation: From Self-Regulation to Social Control. An UNRISD publication by Peter Utting (PDF; 477 KB)
June/2005: A Southern Agenda on Investment? Promoting Development with Balanced Rights and Obligations for Investors, Host States and Home States. From IISD. (PDF; 532 KB)
June/2005: IISD Model International Agreement on Investment for Sustainable Development - Negotiators' Handbook (PDF; 678 KB)
May/2005: The Global Governance of Foreign Direct Investment: Madly Off in All Directions. A FES Paper (PDF; 400 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)
Jan/2005: Draft Model Agreement: International Investment Agreement for Sustainable Development. By IISD (PDF; 248 KB)
Jan/2005: Investor--State disputes and policy implications. Note by the UNCTAD Secretariat (PDF; 201 KB)
Dec/2004: Comments on ICSID Discussion Paper, “Possible Improvements of the Framework for ICSID Arbitration”. By IISD (PDF; 262 KB)
Dec/2004: The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Supply Chain Responsibility. By OECD Watch (PDF; 145 KB)
Oct/2004: Possible Improvements of the Framework for ICSID Arbitration. The World Bank / ICSID (PDF; 250 KB)
Oct/2004: Investment and Sustainable Development. A Guide to the Use and Potential of International Investment Agreements. An IISD publication (PDF; 1,4 MB)
July/2004: Protecting Labour Rights Through Trade Agreements: An Analytical Guide. Polaski (PDF/60 KB
March/2004: Human Security, Corporate Accountability and the Regulation of Trade and Investment . By the Canadian Consortium on Human Security, CCHS (PDF; 1,7 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)
March/2003: No Investment Negotiations at the WTO Declaration of Non Governmental Groups and Civil Society Movements (PDF; 36 KB)
Dec/2002: The Bhopal Principles on Corporate Accountability. By Greenpeace International (PDF; 75 KB)
Oct/2002: Investment and competition negotiations in the WTO - What's wrong with it and what are the alternatives? (PDF; 216 KB)
June/2002: Corporate Crimes. The need for an international instrument on corporate accountability and liability. By Greenpeace International. (PDF; 570 KB)
Feb/2002: Beyond Voluntarism - Human rights and the developing international legal obligations of companies. By the International Council on Human Rights (PDF; 669 KB)
Nov/1998: A History of Attempts to Regulate the Activities of Transnational Corporations: What Lessons Can Be Learned? By Friends of the Earth (Word; 55 KB)
Nov/1998: FDI Regulation and Corporate Accountability: A Discussion of Policy Options. By Friends of the Earth (Word; 84 KB)

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