economy: production and consumption
Africa: Africans Lash Out at Chinese Employers
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category (...)
Deep in the tunnel of the Collum mine, coal dust swirls thickly, and it’s stifling for workers such as Chengo Nguni. He describes his $2-a-day job with a sigh: His supervisor yells incomprehensibly in Chinese. His rubber boots leak. The buttons to control the flow of ore out of the mine often deliver an electric shock. But the worst thing about life in the Chinese-owned mine in southern Zambia is that there is no such thing as a day off. Ever. read
date of on-line publication : 26 October 2006
Whose Miracle? How China’s workers are paying the price for its economic boom
> ICFTU, Dec 2005, 69pp
http://www.icftu.org/displaydocument (...)
A report showing that whilst China’s economy is currently experiences huge growth, the majority of the population is yet to benefit, as numbers of newly unemployed rise and workers’ rights are frequently ignored. Furthermore, this report warns that "its deeper integration into the WTO risks further exacerbating this meteoric plunge into inequality." read
date of on-line publication : 9 February 2006
dossier
Barricades and Boardrooms: A Contemporary History of the Corporate Accountability Movement
> UNRISD, June 7, 2004, 63p., PDF
http://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website (...)
This paper identifies the limitations of "voluntary corporate initiatives" like the UN Global Compact. Since many economists believe that transnational corporations undermine world development, UN involvement in such initiatives is problematic. read
date of on-line publication : 4 January 2006
Proposals for a socially responsible economy
> Alliance 21, May 2001, 24 pp
http://www.alliance21.org/2003/artic (...)
The current hegemonic model of economic development, based on a capitalist globalisation, may create moderates rates of economic growth, but have given rise to new inequalities. These proposals consider a new development model centered sustainability. A model which is rooted in a shared ethical code which must materialize in a renewed socio-economic regulation. read
date of on-line publication : 16 December 2005
Migrant sex work
http://www.choike.org/nuevo_eng/info (...)
An outline of the debates surrounding sex slavery and migrant sex work. This introduction presents the main contrasting stances: on the one hand, those who believe all forms of prostitution should be abolished, and on the other, those who believe some forms of sex work should be regularised, and who stress that the key issue to distinguish whether the work is forced or not.
The article includes an extensive list of links divided into useful categories.
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date of on-line publication : 13 December 2005
Are Human Rights Any Business of Business? Corporate Behaviour from a Human Rights Perspective
> November 2005, Globalizacija.com
“Is there an indirect human rights responsibility of corporations that arises from the human rights obligations of their home states? And second, is there a human rights responsibility of corporations themselves, thus a direct human rights responsibility of corporations regardless of the international commitments of their home states?” This paper outlines the evolution of the Corporate Social Responsibility model, describes the international conventions which exist and gives an introduction (...) read
date of on-line publication : 2 December 2005
Tobacco’s Attempts to Derail the Global Tobacco Treaty: Cases from Battleground Countries
> October 2005, Corporate Accountability International
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/si (...)
A report by Corporate Accountability International on the efforts by Big Tobacco (large tobacco corporations) to misguide countries in the South over the Global Tobacco Treaty. read
date of on-line publication : 2 December 2005
Workers Without Borders
> IPS, Sep 16 2005,
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idne (...)
78.6 billion dollars and 125.8 billion dollars - the first figure represents the amount given as aid by the world’s 22 wealthiest governments, the second is the money migrant workers sent home last year. So this article ask, should we be discussing "migrant worker foreign aid", how is this money being sent and what are the implications of this? read
date of on-line publication : 17 November 2005
HIV/AIDS and the migrant labourers
> Digital Opportunity Channel, 6 July 2005
http://www.digitalopportunity.org/ar (...)
The article begins by highlighting the importance of spreading information and creating awareness about HIV/AIDS in strategies in combat and combat the spread of the virus. The author reflects that whilst the need for Information, Education and Communication (IEC) campaigns was acknowledged early by policy makers, so far there have been a number of shortcomings with regards to certain issues, which the author goes on to detail. There follows an analyse of the link between migration and HIV/AIDS and the way the issue is perceived. read
date of on-line publication : 15 November 2005
The challenges facing the UN special representative on human rights and business
> OXFORD ANALYTICA EXECUTIVE BRIEF, November 7, 2005, 3pp.
http://www.business-humanrights.org/ (...)
Professor John Ruggie was appointed the UN secretary-general’s special representative on human rights and business in July. If Ruggie chooses not to address the key dilemmas surrounding this issue, his work will form another parenthesis on the subject. If he should choose to face those dilemmas and seek solutions, he may be able to bring about real change. read
date of on-line publication : 14 November 2005
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