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United Nations websites:

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: Documents / News Room (U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights)

• {···español: Derechos Economicos, Sociales y Culturales: Documentos / Noticias }

• {···français: Droits économiques, sociaux et culturels: Documents / Les nouvelles}

Gateway to Social Policy and Development (United Nations Division for Social Policy and Development)

Gender and Development (Sustainable Development Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations):

• Bangladesh: Gender and development
• Cambodia: Gender and development
• China: Gender and development
• India: Gender and development
• Sri Lanka: Gender and development
• Vietnam: Gender and development

Right to Development (United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights)

Rights and Development website (UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific)

• Human Rights and Development: UNDP and the protection of human rights

• A Programme Note: Implementing a Rights-Based Approach to Development in the Asia Region (UNDP Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific):

• Executive Summary

• Human Rights & Development - An Emerging Nexus

• A Rights-Based Approach to Governance

• A Rights-Based Approach to Gender

• A Rights-Based Approach to Environment

• A Rights-Based Approach to Poverty

• Programme Development within a Rights and Development Framework

Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Brussels, 14-20 May 2001

• The Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Forum at the 3rd United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Brussels, 14-20 May 2001)

United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) home page 

• UNDP and the Business Community (UN Development Programme)

United Nations Research Institute for Social Development

World Bank websites:

World Bank homepage  

Development and Human Rights: The Role of the World Bank  

• Business Partners for Development (World Bank)

Development Gateway (World Bank)

IFC and the Johannesburg Summit: The Business Case for Sustainability (International Finance Corporation)

Voices of the Poor (World Bank)

World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty (World Bank)

Other websites:

African Development Forum (Economic Commission for Africa)

• Forum pour le développement de l'Afrique (Commission Economique pour l'Afrique)

Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (APWLD)

Basic Documents on Economic and Social Rights (Center on Economic and Social Rights)

Berne Declaration

• {···français} Déclaration de Berne

BP Solar: Municipal Solar Project - Phillipines - BP Solar has been supplying equipment and systems to rural development projects for over 15 years as part of the company’s commercial business. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Business Action for Sustainable Development (International Chamber of Commerce)

Business Humanitarian Forum: Building Mutual Support Between Humanitarian Organizations and the Business Community

Business and Poverty (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

• Business & Poverty database (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

Business and Sustainable Development (International Institute for Sustainable Development)

Caspian Revenue Watch: The Central Eurasia Project, a program of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations), sees the transparent use of revenues generated by the sale and transport of Caspian natural resources as an issue of great importance for regional development and the promotion of civil society

Causes of Poverty (Anup Shah, Global Issues)

CEE Bankwatch Network (Network's mission is to prevent environmentally & socially harmful impacts of international development finance)

Center for Economic and Social Rights

The Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment

Christian Aid (U.K.)

Development (Global Trade Negotiations Home Page, Center for International Development at Harvard University)

Dow Jones Sustainability Group Index 

Eldis: the gateway to development information (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex)

Envirodev: Environnement et Développement Durable {···français}

Financing for Development: UN-High Level Intergovernmental Event in 2002 (Terre des hommes, WEED)

Five Examples of Economic and Social Rights (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

FoodFirst: Institute for Food and Development Policy

• Critiquing Biotechnology and Industrial Agriculture

Foundation for Business and Sustainable Development

Future Harvest [promotes awareness about the importance of food production and the role of agricultural science in meeting the human and environmental challenges of today and tomorrow]

Global e-Sustainability Initiative: An initiative of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) service providers and suppliers, with the support of the United Nations Environment Programme and the International Telecommunication Union

• What we stand for (Global e-Sustainability Initiative)

Human Rights in Development (François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health)

The IBLF [Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum] in Zambia [refers to collaboration with private sector, including BP Zambia, Phonix Contractors, Zambia National Business Society, Investrust Merchant Bank Zambia, Zambia Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Zamcell] (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)

• The Luangeni project in Chipata [Zambia]: A success story -...a partnership between Shoprite, ZamSeed, Ministry of Agriculture Food & Fisheries (MAFF), NGOs and the Luangeni Community. The main idea was to build capacity among the rural communities of Chipata to begin producing high quality vegetables that could be marketed to Shoprite Checkers, a South African chain of stores. (Forum for Business Leaders & Social Partners [The Partnership Forum, Zambia], Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum)

id21: Communicating Development Research

Institute of Development Studies (University of Sussex, UK)

Intermediate Technology Development Group: Practical Answers to Poverty

International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) website

• BRIDGES Weekly Trade News Digest (ICTSD)

• BRIDGES Monthly Review (ICTSD):  

• {···english: BRIDGES Between Trade and Sustainable Development}

• {···español: PUENTES Entre el Comercio y el Desarrollo Sostenible}

• {···français: PASSERELLES entre le commerce et le développement durable}

• {···deutsch: BRÜCKEN Zwischen Handel und Zukunftsfähiger Entwicklung}

• The ICTSD Resource Centre Online

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

• IISD Statement on Trade and Sustainable Development (International Institute for Sustainable Development [IISD])

• {···français: Déclaration de l'IIDD sur le commerce et le développment durable}

• {···español: Declaración del IISD sobre comercio y desarrollo sostenible}

International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

• {···español} Red Internacional para los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales

IT & development [India] (InfoChange [India])

Just Pensions: Socially Responsible Investment and International Development (UK)

Measuring the impacts of poverty on business: Tanzania (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

• In Focus 2: The executive summary - Understanding the poverty business interface: experiences from Tanzania - Summary (Jill Shankleman & Sarah Selby, ERM Social Strategies, Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice, 2001)

• Issue Paper 3: Measuring the impacts of business and poverty. [refers to Tanzania, Vietnam, Thailand; summarises a Resource Centre discussion forum held on 3 Apr. 2001 presented by Jill Shankleman & Sarah Selby of ERM Social Strategies] (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

The Mining Campaign (Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia])

The Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) Forum at the 3rd United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Brussels, 14-20 May 2001)

North-South Institute  {···français: L'Institut Nord-Sud}

Novartis' Concept of Development (Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development)

Overseas Development Council (USA)

Overseas Development Institute (UK)

Oxfam America

Oxfam GB [Great Britain]

Oxfam International

Partnership Africa Canada: Canadian and African NGOs working together on issues of human rights, human security and sustainable development

• {···français} Partenariat Afrique Canada: une coalition d'ONG canadiennes et africaines qui travaillent en concertation dans les dossiers des droits de la personne, de la sécurité humaine et du développement durable

People-Centered Development Forum

Pilot project: Tools and guidelines to help business effectively engage vulnerable stakeholders: Research shows there is a need to further study and illuminate the relationship between business and marginalised and disadvantaged groups on a number of key issues. In order to help business use this knowledge for their own benefit and to contribute to poverty elimination, guidelines and tools are required. [pilot project in India] (Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice)

{···français} pipelinewatch.org: Nous vous proposons ici un éclairage critique sur le projet pétrolier Tchad-Cameroun

• {···english} pipelinewatch.org: We wish to offer you a critical understanding of the Chad-Cameroon oil and pipeline project

Poverty [India] (InfoChange [India])

Poverty and Development (Global Policy Forum)

Poverty and Development in Africa (Global Policy Forum)

Preparatory Committees and Information on the Financing for Development Summit [United Nations summit to take place in 2002] (Global Policy Forum)

ProPoor - This site is a repository of extensive information regarding NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) across South Asia

Pro-Poor Tourism (a collaborative venture of Centre for Responsible Tourism, Overseas Development Institute, and International Institute for Environment and Development)

READIT - Rapid Environment And Development International Timetable - READIT covers 100s of sustainable development events and links - from the local to the global level. (Environment & Development Resource Centre)

Reports: Science from the Developing World (International Development Research Centre)

Research Foundation for Science,Technology and Ecology (India)

Resource Centre for the Social Dimensions of Business Practice

SD Gateway (Sustainable Development Gateway)

• {···español: Bienvenidos a la SD Gateway}

• {···français: Bienvenue au SD Gateway} 

Shared Interest: a not-for-profit social investment fund designed to enhance low-income South Africans' access to credit previously denied them because of their race, gender, or income

Social/Economic Policy (Global Policy Forum)

Southern Business Challenge: a new international network bringing together progressive companies and entrepreneurs from developing countries to promote an action agenda for sustainability and social justice (Centre for Social Markets)

Sustainable Consumption and Trade Initiative (International Institute for Environment and Development)

Sustainable Development Policy Institute

Terre des hommes:

•   {···français: Terre des hommes, Fédération Internationale}
•  {···english: Terre des hommes, International Federation}

Trade and development on the WTO website

Unilever: Cleaning up the Brantas River [Indonesia] - The Brantas River project and Unilever Indonesia’s Village Adoption Program are engaging local communities in cleaning up polluted waterways where they reside, allowing them a healthier environment in which to live and new income generating possibilities. This partnership program, involving local government organizations and NGOs, has led to a new model for rehabilitating rivers that the company is seeking to replicate with other businesses and river communities throughout Indonesia. (World Business Council for Sustainable Development)

Virtual Exhibition: Showcasing sustainable development initiatives around the world

War on Want

What are Economic and Social Rights? (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

Why do Economic and Social Rights Matter? (Center for Economic and Social Rights)

The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Sustainable Development (Center for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment)

World Business Council for Sustainable Development

World Summit Business Awards for Sustainable Development Partnerships:...The Awards highlight concrete actions taken by business organizations in partnership with other stakeholders for sustainable development. (International Chamber of Commerce, in association with United Nations Environment Programme)

WTOWatch.Org: Global information center on trade and sustainable development

Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal