July 5, 2008
Saturday

Human Rights

Human Rights is an ideology, belief, and movement that supports the notion that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and thus have inalienable rights including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
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BSR Protects International Labor Migrants (press release)

Organization:
Business for Social Responsibility

MacArthur Grant Supports Two-Year Global Initiative

Subsidizing Sweatshops (research)

The report shows how governments inadvertently use tax dollars to increase the downward pressure on labor rights, wages, and working conditions.
Organization:
Sweatfree.org

Boston College to host United Nations Global Compact Meeting (press release)

Organization:
Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship

June 26-27 executives and academics to examine how to include UN principles in management systems and responsible business practices

50 More Companies Added To Controversial Target List (activism)

The Burma Campaign UK produced a list of 154 companies that it accuses of helping to finance Burma's military dictatorship through a presence in the country, which includes 50 companies that are new to the campaigns 'dirty list'.

The new companies, including Toyota, Tata, BBC Worldwide and Kuoni, were accused as having commitments to corporate social responsibility that were "a hollow sham."

A number of the companies protested the severity of the charge. BBC Worldwide found itself on the list because it has taken a stake in the Lonely Planet guidebooks. Lonely Planet said that the act of producing a guidebook about the country was not the same as supporting the regime there. Toyota said that it sold around 40 vehicles in Burma, mostly to embassies.

The Burma Campaign UK produced a list of 154 companies that it accuses of helping to finance Burma's military dictatorship through a presence in the country, which includes 50 companies that are new to the campaigns 'dirty list'.
Organization:
Business Respect

Human Rights: Narrowing the Divide Between Business and Social Responsibility (Sam Taylor, Founder Reputation Dynamics)

 

In the face of western companies marketing challenges supporting the Olympics and activists linking the games to Darfur/Tibet, addressing human rights issues are top-of-mind.

Investigating the Rumor of the Garbage Patch (video)

Scientists investigate rumors of a garbage patch as big as Texas said to be floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Organization:
VBS.TV

"I Was Shot by Soldiers Bought and Paid for by Chevron" (opinion)

My case is just one of many where Chevron has responded with violence when Nigerian villagers have protested, demanding that Chevron clean up its environmental and economic damage.
Organization:
Alternet

CWR: Susan Aaronson: Trade for Human Rights (audio)

Organization:
Corporate Watchdog Radio
Human rights and trade--the relationship dates back millennia. Despite this long history, however, we still have very little understanding of how to use trade to promote human rights. This according to today's guest, Susan Ariel Aaronson, author of Trade Imbalance: The Struggle to Weigh Human Rights in Trade Policymaking, out from Cambridge University Press in late 2007.

Girls Count: A Global Investment & Action Agenda (research)

This report is about why and how to put girls at the center of development. It is about how the health of economies and families depends on protecting the rights of and fostering opportunities for today’s girls. It is about how far girls in many developing countries have come—but how far we remain from a world in which girls’ rights are respected.
Organization:
Center for Global Development
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