The World Trade Organisation and Africa's Marginalisation

Tandon, Yash

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“…This is compounded by the fact that the founding instruments of WTO make little reference to the principles of human rights. The net result is that for certain sectors of humanity -particularly the developing countries of the South -the WTO is a veritable nightmare (see Tandon, 1999). The fact that women were largely excluded from the WTO decisionmaking structures, and that the rules evolved by WTO are largely gender insensitive, means that women as a group stand to gain little from this organization, for example.…”

Section: Human Rights and The Wtomentioning

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Globalization, corporate social responsibility and human rights

Welford¹

2002

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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In extending this journal to include issues of corporate social responsibility, we have come to recognize and reflect the fact that in order to move towards sustainable development we must examine social, environmental and economic issues. In this journal we have in the past demonstrated how companies can benefit from the use of environmental management tools and strategies. Now we extend the debate to social issues. However, corporate social responsibility tends to be much more controversial than improving environmental performance. Social responsibility requires us to look at ethics, stakeholder accountability and our own value systems. There will often be contradictory positions taken on some social issues and stakeholders will not always agree with each other. One starting point that seems productive however is to see corporate social responsibility in the context of human rights. This article therefore lays out how we can use the process of globalization to improve human rights through business activity and commitment. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Section: Human Rights and The Wtomentioning

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Globalization, corporate social responsibility and human rights

Welford¹

2002

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“…Globalization carries with it the risk of decreased human rights in developing countries (Tandon 1999) as well as opportunities for increasing them by virtue of the fact that there is now a group of companies with greater experts, in dozens of countries worldwide (GRI 2008a), the principal activity of which is to encourage companies to report periodically on their environmental and social policies, actions and impacts. The main vehicle for accomplishing this is a set of reporting guidelines, now in their third generation, the G3 guidelines (GRI 2006), a section of which is devoted to human rights.…”

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“…Globalization carries with it the risk of decreased human rights in developing countries (Tandon 1999) as well as opportunities for increasing them by virtue of the fact that there is now a group of companies with greater turnover and market capitalization than the majority of countries, and they might be persuaded to add human rights to their own business agendas (Welford 2002). Prominent among the proponents of such an addition is the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a large multi-stakeholder network of thousands of experts, in dozens of countries worldwide (GRI 2008a), the principal activity of which is to encourage companies to report periodically on their environmental and social policies, actions and impacts.…”

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General Disregard for Details of GRI Human Rights Reporting by Large Corporations

Morhardt

2009

Global Business Review

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This article examines the web-based social responsibility reporting of the 100 largest companies in six broad industrial sectors to determine the extent to which the reporting follows the specific guidance of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) G3 Human Rights Performance Indicators (HR1-HR9). Ninety-seven of these companies have some sort of social information on their websites, and 95 of them have formal corporate responsibility reports. Seventy-one of these companies indicate that their reports were based on the G3 guidelines, and 66 of these provide a detailed index to them. The nine G3 HR guidelines can be subdivided into 17 specific items; six of them can be interpreted as requiring only that actions or measures taken be described, and these are widely followed, primarily in the form of policy statements. The remaining items, reported much less frequently, are quantitative, requiring total numbers or percentages of specific actions or incidents, or identification of operations in which such incidents are at significant risk. Thus, although the G3 guidelines for human rights reporting contemplate quantitative statements of performance, most of the reports examined for this article do not provide any, nor, for the most part, indicate why not. I argue that the reporting likely would be more informative if the guidelines were rewritten to request the nature of the processes and procedures the company is implementing for achieving the desired human rights outcomes, and the degree to which they are in place.

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High Technologies Sector Under the Conditions of the European Integration: Innovative Development

Melnikas

2014

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

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The World Trade Organisation and Africa's Marginalisation

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

Globalization, corporate social responsibility and human rights

Globalization, corporate social responsibility and human rights

General Disregard for Details of GRI Human Rights Reporting by Large Corporations

High Technologies Sector Under the Conditions of the European Integration: Innovative Development

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