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  Poverty / Development / Economic, social & cultural rights: 1993-2000  

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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)

Wider Gaps Between Haves and Have-Nots by Year 2015, Says US Intelligence (Jim Lobe, Associated Press, 18 Dec. 2000)

"Eliminating World Poverty: Making Globalisation Work for the Poor" [website for the UK Government's second White Paper on International Development] (U.K. Department for International Development, 11 Dec. 2000)

Poorest Countries Left Behind by Trade Boom (Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service, 6 Dec. 2000)

Towards Sustainable Economies: Challenging Neoliberal Economic Globalisation (Friends of the Earth, 1 Dec. 2000) 

{···français} Le pétrole en Afrique, la violence faite au peuple: Cette vaste enquête très documentée montre comment l'économie de l'or noir, en Afrique, loin de favoriser le progrès économique et social, vampirise les ressources financières et humaines des pays concernés. (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)

The Next Thousand Years: Taking Responsibility for Our Behaviour and Its Impact on Future Generations (Jeffrey Barber, Integrative Strategies Forum, Dec. 2000)

Rural Poverty on the Rise, Reports IFAD [International Fund for Agricultural Development] (Gustavo González, Inter Press Service, 28 Nov. 2000)

Sugar Multinationals Blamed for Blocking Help to Poorest Nations (Larry Elliott, Guardian, 27 Nov. 2000)

Discrimination And Poverty Likely Bedfellows (Africa News, 20 Nov. 2000)

China Says Absolute Poverty is Eliminated, But Millions Are Grindingly Poor (Agence France Presse, 17 Nov. 2000)

Planners and builders must now consider all alternatives to large dams: As the only UK organisation that participated in its development, ITDG welcomes the recommendation in today’s report from the World Commission on Dams (WCD) that large dam projects should only be approved where they demonstrably meet the goal of human development - and that alternatives including decentralised energy schemes should be considered from the start. (Intermediate Technology Development Group,16 Nov. 2000)

What can Business Bring to Balkan Reconstruction? (conference organised by Humanitarian Affairs Review and The Business Humanitarian Forum, with The World Bank and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, and in association with the United Nations Office for Project Services [UNOPS] and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR], 3 Oct.  2000)

Who Has the Right to Know? (Cees J. Hamelink, Professor of International Communication at University of Amsterdam, in UNRISD News [U.N. Research Institute for Social Development Bulletin], no. 23, autumn/winter 2000)

A Human Rights Perspective on the Digital Divide: The Human Right to Communicate (William J. McIver, Jr., Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University, Sep. 2000)

Growth May Be Good for the Poor -- But are IMF and World Bank Policies Good for Growth? (Mark Weisbrot, Dean Baker, Robert Naiman and Gila Neta, Center for Economic and Policy Research, 7 Aug. 2000)

Petro-states - Predatory or Developmental? (Helge Ole Bergesen, Torleif Haugland and Leiv Lunde, Fridtjof Nansen Institute and ECON Centre for Economic Analysis, Aug. 2000)

Canada's trade agenda needs to focus on development, says new report (North-South Institute, 21 Aug. 2000)

Profits or Human Rights? The Development Answer Is 'Both' (Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, UNDP, in International Herald Tribune, 21 July 2000)

A Good Taste in the Mouth (Roger Trapp, Independent (UK), 16 July 2000)

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

Promoting Sustainable Social Progress (Fackson Shamenda, President, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 27 June 2000)

Freedom's market: The UN is launching a campaign to alleviate poverty by regulating the global economy. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen argues that this depends as much on democracy as it does on free markets (Amartya Sen, The Observer [UK], 25 June 2000)

A Better World for All: Progress towards the international development goals (World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, June 2000) {···english···español···français}

Growth with equity is good for the poor (Oxfam, June 2000)

Prevailing economic policies lead to poverty - A Plea for Socially Responsible Economic Policy (joint declaration by Swiss NGOs, June 2000)

CCIC learning circle on NGO engagement with the private sector on an agenda to eradicate poverty (Richard Marquardt, Canadian Council for International Co-operation, June 2000)

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

Business, poverty and human development – what’s really possible? [Presentation given at Triodos Bank UK Annual Meeting] (Sophia Tickell, Oxfam, 8 Apr. 2000)

Pro-poor Tourism: Putting poverty at the heart of the tourism agenda (Caroline Ashley, Charlotte Boyd and Harold Goodwin, Overseas Development Institute, Natural Resource perspectives, no. 51, Mar. 2000)

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: A Guide to the Legal Framework (Center for Economic & Social Rights, Jan. 2000)

Human Rights Accountability of Private Business: A Question of Sustainable Development (Romina Picolotti and Jorge Daniel Taillant, Center for Human Rights and Environment [CEDHA], Jan. 2000)

NGO Engagement with the Private Sector on a Global Agenda to End Poverty: A Review of the Issues (Moira Hutchinson, Canadian Council for International Cooperation Policy Team, Jan. 2000) 

Social responsibility vital to business survival, says report (World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 26 Jan. 2000)

Sustaining the rag trade (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000)

The Reality of Sustainable Trade (International Institute for Environment and Development, 2000)

Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development (U.N. Development Programme)

UNDP Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development Background Papers (U.N. Development Programme, 2000):

1999:

Honoring The Anniversary Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights: CARE helps deliver the promise of rights for all (CARE, 10 Dec. 1999)

Statement of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to the Third Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (Seattle, 30 November to 3 December 1999) (Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights)

WHO Director General Brundtland sees central private sector role in sustainable development (press release by World Business Council for Sustainable Development, 3 Nov. 1999)

From the relief of poverty to the creation of sustainable livelihoods - The business contribution (Lord Holme of Cheltenham, Chair of the International Chamber of Commerce Commission on Environment, 23 Sep. 1999) 

Good intentions are not enough: A report on BP Amoco's involvement in the Casanare region of Colombia (CAFOD, Catholic Institute for International Relations, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK, July 1999)

The Roles of Codes of Conduct in Promoting Development (Judy Walker, Department for International Development, U.K. Government, July 1999)

Economics and the Value of Freedom (Amartya Sen, in Civilization: The Magazine of the Library of Congress, June-July 1999)

Amartya Sen on development and health (Adrea Mach, in To Our Health: The Internal Newsletter of the World Health Organization, May 1999)

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

The human rights challenge to global poverty (Chris Jochnick, Center for Economic and Social Rights, Feb. 1999) 

Sustainable Development at the Turn of the Century: Perception, Reality, and Outlook (Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation, 1999)

Development Assistance at the Threshhold of the 21st Century (Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation, 1999)

Who Benefits? (International Institute for Environment and Development, 1999)

Preface to the Quito Declaration on the Enforcement and Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean (Chris Jochnick and Javier Mujica Petit, The Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal, vol. 2, 1999)

1998:

Why Civil Society Matters to Development Workers (Nevin Orange, CARE Canada, 10 Dec. 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)

Building Markets for Sustainable Trade (Nick Robbins, International Institute for Environment and Development, 29 Oct. 1998)

Human Development and Human Rights: Report on the Oslo Symposium, 2-3 Oct. 1998 (UNDP, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Human Rights for Human Development conference (press release, International Conference on Human Rights, Yalta, Ukraine, Sep. 1998)

Quito Declaration (on the enforcement and realization of economic, social and cultural rights in Latin America and the Caribbean) (adopted by over 50 development and human rights NGOs, July 1998)

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

Corporate Responsibility in the Global Marketplace (John M. Willson, President and CEO, Placer Dome Inc., presentation at the launch of the Canadian Development Report 1998, Vancouver, 27 May 1998)

Ethics in the Marketplace: The Canadian Manufacturing Sector (North-South Institute, 20 May 1998)

Reconnecting to Social Responsibility: Canada's Financial Sector (North-South Institute, 20 May 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)

Integrating human rights with sustainable human development: A UNDP policy document (UN Development Programme, Jan. 1998)

UNDP: Linking Human Rights and Development (UN Development Programme, 1998)

Elements for an Agenda of the South (report of the Ad Hoc Panel of Economists of the Non-Aligned Movement, 1998)

1997:

Setting Things Right: Ending Poverty by Achieving Basic Human Rights (Michael Simon, Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], 1997)   summary and order form

The Role of Corporate Accountability in Sustainable Development: an NGO statement to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development from the NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry (NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry, Jan. 1997)

1996:

Business as partners in development: Creating wealth for countries, companies and communities (Jane Nelson/Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum [now International Business Leaders Forum], in collaboration with The World Bank and The UN Development Programme, 1996)  

1995:

Sustainable Development and Good Governance (Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation, 1995)

1994:

Sustainable Human Development: Concepts and Priorities (Sudhir Anand and Amartya Sen, 1994) 

Sustainable Development: A Common Challenge for North and South (Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation, 1994)

1993:

The Effect of Multinational Companies on Development (Prof. Dr. Klaus M. Leisinger, Novartis Foundation, 1993)