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CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY AND DALITS
Jan 1, 2006: The Ambedkar Principles: Employment and additional principles on economic and social exclusion formulated to assist all foreign investors in South Asia to address caste discrimination
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Exploited Dalit Girls Produce Garments in India for European and US Markets
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
AND STONE QUARRYING
Jun 2010: Mining and its effects on children, women, Adivasi and Dalits (ICN)
Mar 2010: India's Childhood in the "Pits": A Report on the Impacts of Mining on Children in India (Dhaatri-Samata/HAQ Centre for Child Rights)
Mar(?) 2010: Women Miners in Rajasthan, India: A reflection on their life, challenges and future (GRAVIS)
MORE INFORMATION ON
CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY
SUMANGALI: Exploited Dalit Girls Produce Garments in India for European and US Markets
Nov 23, 2011: SOMO and ICN statement to reactions by Rainforest Alliance and Unilever following publication of the SOMO report Certified Unilever Tea: Small cup, big difference?
May 19, 2011: Dalit girls working under slave like conditions in India's garment industry (IDSN.org)
May 16, 2011: The Cost of Cotton: Every 30 minutes an Indian farmer commits suicide
Jan 24, 2011: EU-India Free Trade Agreement [update]
REPORTS
Certified Unilever Tea – Small Cup, Big Difference? (SOMO/ICN, Oct 2011)
Access to Justice: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations - India (International Commission of Jurists, Jul 2011)
Captured by Cotton: Exploited Dalit girls produce garments in India for European and US markets (SOMO/ICN, May 2011)
Every Thirty Minutes: Farmer Suicides, Human Rights, and the Agrarian Crisis in India (CHR&GJ, May 2011)
Trade Invaders – How big business is driving the EU-India free trade negotiations (CEO/India FDI Watch, Sep 2010)
Missed the Goal for Workers: The Reality of Soccer Ball Stitchers in Pakistan, India, China and Thailand (International Labor Rights Forum, Jun 7, 2010)
PRESS RELEASES
Oct 31, 2011: Precarious work in certified tea production for Unilever (press release SOMO/ICN)
May 20, 2011: Exploited Dalit Girls Produce Garments in India for European and US Markets (media release SOMO/ICN)
May 11, 2011: India failing to address its farmer suicide crisis (press release CHR&GJ)
L I N K S
more websites with regard to
Corporate Accountability

Child Labour, Trade Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility: What the European Union should do (June 2008).

The ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility: Developing the future ISO SR 26000 Standard: briefing paper (March 2007).

Bridging Worlds: report of a seminar organised by HOM for Business, Government representatives and NGOs to discuss the gap between the worlds of profit and human rights (Dec 7, 2006).

CLICK HERE for more information on CHILD LABOUR IN THE INDIAN COTTONSEED INDUSTRY EU-India Resolution (May 31, 2006).

Letter NGOs (May 18, 2006) to UN Representative on Business and Human Rights, John Ruggie, and answer to this letter (May 22, 2006).

Answers European Commission (January 31, 2006) to questions Van den Berg (PvdA) on multinationals and child slavery (November 28, 2005).

The Ambedkar Principles: Employment and additional principles on economic and social exclusion formulated to assist all foreign investors in South Asia to address caste discrimination (January 1, 2006).

Answers to Questions of members Dutch parliament about the violation of the rights of adults and children by multinationals (November 3, 2005).

Letter of ABN AMRO to India Committee of the Netherlands concerning the engagement between ABN AMRO and mining corporation Vedanta (August 1, 2005).

Letter of India Committee of the Netherlands to ABN AMRO concerning the engagement between ABN AMRO and mining corporation Vedanta (January 21, 2005).

Reservations for Dalits as CSR? (OneWorld South Asia, November 2004).

A call for globally accountable business: recommendations from southern representatives to the EU for globally accountable business (CSR Worldwide Week, 3 - 10 November, 2004).

The EU Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility, Maastricht, 9 November 2004: speech by C.E.G. van Gennip, Minister for Foreign Trade.

Manifesto 'Principled Profits' - Guidelines for responsible business behaviour: During the Spring of 2001, the Dutch government and parliament will discuss the public responsibility of Dutch companies. This manifesto addresses the issue of responsible business behaviour by Dutch companies outside the Netherlands. It reflects the views of non-governmental organisations promoting sustainable development and defending worker rights and human rights.

Report of the international IRENE seminar on corporate liability and workers' rights held at the University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom, 20 and 21 March 2000: 'Controlling Corporate Wrongs: The Liability of Multinational Corporations - Legal possibilities, initiatives and strategies for civil society'.

Contribution to a seminar in New Delhi (November 1995) on social clause in trade agreements: 'The social clause as a global bottom-line'.


Major Rally Against Coca-Cola: Communities in Rajasthan Demand Shut Down Bottling Plant (India Resource Center, 12-12-2005)
State Government Challenges Coca-Cola's Bottling Operation in India (India Resource Center, Nov 28, 2005)
Major Protest Planned Against Coca-Cola in India (India Resource Center, Nov 27, 2005)
more information on Coca-Cola campaign in India: www.indiaresource.org





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