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2000:

Global Firms' Investment in Human Rights is Nothing to Crow Over (Marwaan Macan-Markar, Inter Press Service, 29 Dec. 2000)

What Should We Really Expect from Big Business? Simon Zadek argues that we should enlist corporations to tackle poverty and environmental degradation in this essay based on his forthcoming publication for the Foreign Policy Centre, Public Policy and Business in Society (Simon Zadek, Global Thinking, winter 2001)

Corporations Get Bigger and Bigger (Jim Lobe, Inter Press, 4 Dec. 2000)

{···français} « Business», pétrole et droits humains: De la complicité avec les dictatures au «capitalisme éthique» (Roland-Pierre Paringaux, Le Monde Diplomatique, décembre 2000)

Making Corporations Accountable: A Background Paper for the United Nations Financing for Development Process (James A. Paul and Jason Garred, Global Policy Forum, Dec. 2000)

Global Capitalism: Can it be made to work better? (Pete Engardio, Business Week, 6 Nov. 2000)

Whose Globe? The plight of local people gets a voice in corporate boardrooms (Paul Raeburn and Sheridan Prasso, Business Week, 6 Nov. 2000)

On the Ground Research: A Research Agenda for Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining Activity -- Submitted to the International Development Research Centre (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 6 Nov. 2000) {···français}

Capitalism - Suicide or Survival? (Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Chair of Amnesty International UK Business Group, speech to Triple Bottom Line Investing Conference, Rotterdam, 2 Nov. 2000)

Business and Human Rights - new roles for the global players (Christopher Avery, Nov. 2000)

Reputation and Responsibility: The New Corporate Overhead? (John V. Mitchell, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Nov. 2000)

Human Rights and Corporate Sense (S. Prakash Sethi, Far Eastern Economic Review, 19 Oct. 2000) 

Corporates' Turn to Play the Good Samaritan (Dinesh Narayanan, FT Asia Intelligence Wire, 27 Sep. 2000)

The rise of the corporate apology (Laurent Belsie, staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Sep. 2000)

Too Much Corporate Power? (Aaron Bernstein, Business Week, 11 Sep. 2000)

On The Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining ­ April 14-16 2000, Ottawa, Canada - Workshop Report (MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development, Sep. 2000)

Speech by Ralph Nader about the power of multinational corporations (Ralph Nader, founder of Public Citizen, presentation to United Nations DPI/NGO conference on "Global Solidarity: The way to peace and International Cooperation", 28-30 Aug. 2000)

How Corporations Absolve Their Sins (Kelly Currah, Guardian, 28 Aug. 2000)

Body Shop International takes stand on human rights issues (Clare Sain-Ley-Berry, Earth Times News Service, 26 Aug. 2000)

Getting Corporations Serious About Social Responsibility (Earth Times News Service, 18 July 2000)

Australian Mining Companies: Inquiry needed into the impact of their overseas operations (Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], July 2000)

Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace - Levi's Children is a book about corporate social responsibility and the rising demands that U.S. companies be held accountable for labor practices and political conditions in the international markets where they do business. It tells the story of Levi Strauss & Co. (Karl Schoenberger, June 2000)

Panel of Independent Judges Selects Six Companies for their Outstanding Responsible Business Practices (Council on Economic Priorities, June 2000)

Corporate Citizenship: International Perspectives on the Emerging Agenda (Halina Ward, Royal Institute of International Affairs, June 2000)

Responsible business conduct in a global economy (Maria Livanos Cattaui, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, June 2000)

Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development (U.N. Research Institute for Social Development [UNRISD], June 2000)

Rise of the Corporate Nation-State (Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2000)

At the Intersection of Business and Human Rights (Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2000)

Trade, Labor & the Environment (Brookings Institution, Resources for the Future, Apr. 2000)

Human rights -- is it any of your business? [A management primer] (Amnesty International UK Business Group / Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, Apr. 2000)                           

Human rights issues should be part of investment decisions (Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections, 9 Mar. 2000)

Controlling Corporate Wrongs: The Liability of Multinational Corporations - Legal possibilities, initiatives and strategies for civil society (IRENE, report of the international seminar on corporate liability at University of Warwick, Mar. 2000)

Reckless Lending: How Canada's Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk (NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation, part of the Halifax Initiative Coalition, Mar. 2000)

{···español: Hacer que las multinacionales rindan cuentas la protección de los derechos humanos en una <<economía mundializada>> (Amnesty International, 26 Feb. 2000)}

Globalization and Human Rights (Pierre Sané, Secretary General, Amnesty International, speech at Energy Conference 2000, Sanderstolen, Norway, 2 Feb. 2000)

Human Rights and Business Ethics: Fashioning a New Social Contract (Wesley Cragg, Feb. 2000)

Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change (web version: Christopher Avery, Nov. 1999; paper version: Christopher Avery/Amnesty International UK Section, Feb. 2000)

Credit Due: Former CEO of Visa Lashes Out at Corporate American's Values (Ralph Nader, Common Dreams, 24 Jan. 2000)

Multinational Enterprises and the Social Challenges of the XXIst Century: The ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles at Work; Public and Private Corporate Codes of Conduct; edited by Roger Blanpain (abstract of book by the publisher, Kluwer Law International, Jan. 2000)

Human Rights, Environment and Development: With Special Emphasis on Corporate Accountability (Ayesha Dias, UNDP Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development Background Paper, UNDP, 2000)

Liability of Multinational Corporations under International Law, edited by Menno T. Kamming and Saman Zia-Zarifi [summary] (abstract of book by the publisher, Kluwer Law International, 2000)

1999:

Speech by Pierre Sané, Secretary-General of Amnesty International, at the launch of the Global Sullivan Principles (Pierre Sané, Secretary-General, Amnesty International, 2 Nov. 1999)

Hard Issues, Innovative Approaches: Improving NGO-Industry Dialogue on Corporate Responsibility and Accountability (California Global Corporate Accountability Project, Nov. 1999)

The Millennium Poll on Corporate Social Responsibility (Environics International, Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum [now International Business Leaders Forum], and The Conference Board, 30 Sep. 1999)

Internetworking for Social Change: Keeping the Spotlight on Corporate Responsibility - Internetworking has facilitated a globalization of civil society no less noteworthy than that which characterizes the corporate world. This paper looks at the history and experience of key international social and environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with Internet communications, as well as at how corporate use of the Internet is evolving. (Kelly O'Neill, UNRISD News [U.N. Research Institute for Social Development Bulletin], no. 21, autumn/winter 1999)

Economics and the Value of Freedom (Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, in Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, June-July 1999) 

Canny companies come clean: Firms are finding that it pays to tell the truth about their social and environmental impact (Terry Slavin, Observer [U.K.], 27 June 1999)

Business has much to contribute to civil society (Maria Livanos Cattaui, Secretary General, International Chamber of Commerce, May 1999)

Basic Human Rights and the Impact of Mining Companies (Jeff Atkinson, Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], May 1999):

The New Corporate Challenge: Globalization requires companies to do more than seek higher profits (Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Chair of Amnesty International UK Business Group, Time, 1 Feb. 1999)

Democracy and Social Justice (Amartya Sen, 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, paper presented to International Development Exchange Program, Feb. 1999)

Making investment work for people: An international framework for regulating corporations (World Development Movement, Feb. 1999)

Business and Human Rights -- The Bottom Line (commentary by Arvind Ganesan, Human Rights Watch, Jan. 1999)

1998:

The Evolution of Corporate Responsibility: From Unbridled Markets to Mature Capitalism (Roy Culpeper, President, North-South Institute, address to The Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy, Toronto, 2 Dec. 1998)

A History of Attempts to Control the Practices of Transnational Corporations: What Lessons Can Be Learned? (Friends of the Earth-England, Wales and Northern Ireland, Nov. 1998)

Human Rights and Business Ethics (keynote address by Anand Panyarachun [formerly Chairman of the Federation of Thai Industries, Prime Minister of Thailand, and Thailand's Ambassador to the United Nations] to International Symposium on Human Rights and Business Ethics, Bangkok, 24 Oct. 1998)

Oil and Human Rights Proving a Complicated Mix in Azerbaijan (David Case, Pew Fellowships in International Journalism, fall 1998)

Global Markets and Corporate Responsibility (Joe Clark, Member of Canadian Parliament, address at the Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, 30 June 1998)

Mining, murder and mayhem: The impact of the mining industry in the South (Danny Kennedy, Director of Project Underground, Third World Network, May 1998)

The Spotlight and the Bottom Line (Debora Spar, Foreign Affairs, Mar./Apr. 1998)

Business and Human Rights: Mutual responsibilities, converging agendas (speech given to the Keidanren by Rory Mungoven, Asia-Pacific Program Director, Amnesty International, 27 Feb. 1998)

Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights: A Documentation of the Dialogue Between Amnesty International/Pax Christi and Shell (Pax Christi Netherlands, Feb. 1998)

Business and Human Rights: A Management Primer (Shell, 1998)

Business Ethics and Human Rights (Damian Grace, Australian Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1998)

Globalization and the Rule of Law (Andrew Clapham, 1998)

1997:

Business and Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Discussion Held at Harvard Law School in December 1997 (organised by Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, and Lawyers Committee for Human Rights)

Business and Human Rights: 5 Common Misconceptions (Christopher Avery, Dec. 1997)

The New Joint Venture: Human Rights and Business (Mark Daly, speech to Rotary Club of Hong Kong on behalf of Amnesty International, Human Rights Solidarity, vol. 7, no. 3, August 1997)

The Capitalist Threat (George Soros, The Atlantic Monthly, Feb. 1997) 

1996:

Shell has human rights rethink (Simon Beavis and Paul Brown, The Guardian [U.K.], 8 Nov. 1996)

Limits to the social responsibility of business (David Korten, PCD Forum, People-Centered Development Forum, June 1996)

1994:

Corporate Ethics and International Business: Some Basic Issues (Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development, 2 June 1994)