Surf these sites: Action 4 Corp Acct -- Site gives reasons to boycott Nestle and American Home Products. Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters -- Creative spoofs of popular advertisements with considerable social influence. Adbusters asks -- "Bull in a China Shop" is a 30 second ad advising economists to learn how to subtract death and destruction from the Gross Domestic Product. Anti-Scofflaw Regulation -- This proposal would prevent the federal government from entering into contracts with companies that are chronic violators of consumer, environmental, labor, tax, antitrust and employment laws. Apparel Industry Partnership -- Code of conduct for domestic and overseas apparel factories with monitoring procedures. Ask Walmart -- As You Sow Foundation posts information about Walmart''s unwillingness to even listen to the issues of how the firm has (inadvertently) done harm in the third world. Be your own sleuth -- Extensive information and links for persons wanting to study corporations'' behavior in the world. Benetton Boycott -- Provides specific advertisements in US media in which a marketing tool about death row inmates, arguably elevates convicted murderers and ignores victims of crimes. Better World electronic edition -- This is third edition of Better World online. Useful links and references are here. CERES Principles -- Formerly the Valdez Principles, the CERES Principles for environmentally sound business practices were drafted by the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies. California Corporate Accountability Project -- The California Global Corporate Accountability Project aims to promote the environmental and human rights standards of U.S. multinationals. Focus is three business sectors: oil, high tech and finance. Campus Sweatshop Protests Spread -- Princeton University in mid February, 1999 became the latest site of student rallies urging stronger conduct codes for factories that make clothing bearing university logos. Rallies are planned at Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell and other universities. Corporate Accountability Project -- Researching Corporations section provides links to numerous resources to investigate publicly traded corporations. Corporate Ethics and International Business -- Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development (NFSD) article about international business ethics and the responsibilities of modern corporations to society. Corporate Watch -- Corporate Watch is designed to provide you with up to date information and analysis on social, ecological and economic impacts of transnational corporations. A "must read" for activists, journalists, serious SR investors. Databases of RTK -- Right to Know Network is a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. which aims to enable information about corporations and large organizations that those working in area of Corporate Accountability, use. See more below under Right to Know. Essential Action -- Site for alerting and organizing efforts in corporate accountability. Ethical Investment Club -- Yahoo - ethical investing online group with emphasis on socially responsible investments Global Dialogue Institute -- The purpose of the GDI is to promote dialogue in the broadest sense among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures, focusing especially though not exclusively on the "opinion-shapers" of society, e.g., scholars, professionals, and institutional & business leaders. Global Securities Information, Inc. -- Specialists in Research, Retrieval, and Watch of SEC EDGAR and International Corporate Filings, "LIVEDGAR" Grants - Corporate Financial Responsibility -- Jesse Smith Noyes foundation also provides grants for those who study / improve corporate accountability in fiduciary reporting and actions IGC - Institute for Global Communications -- Nonprofit, provides alternative sources of information, and comprehensive Internet services for progressive individuals and organizations. International Corporate Environmental Reports -- Corporate Accountability vis a vis the environment. English links. International Corporate Environmental Reports -- The International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site is worth some of your time if you are interested in Corporate Accountability vis a vis the environment. English link, site name, Milieujaarverslagen Investor Responsibility Research Center -- One of the premier information and action centers for corporate accountability. Major web site includes tobacco, sweat shop and other troubling areas for investors. Loka Institute -- Loka Institute, begun in 1987, enables information and organizing among thousands of people and groups worldwide concerned with science, technology and society. Genetic Modification by corporations, for example, has been a focus here at the turn toward the 21st Century. Multinational Oil Companies in Nigerian -- Human rights are violated in order for large corporations to continue at high profits, detailed in the Human Rights Watch report on Nigeria. Novartis Foundation for Sustainable Development -- Annotated web links on corporate accountability, hosted by a publicly traded company often challenged by activists for its positions on pesticide and genetic engineering. Pesticide News and Regulatory Information -- PestLaw Online contains fourteen categories of Pesticide related biological, economic, legal and social issues. Pocket Guide to Environmental Bad Guys -- Ridgeway and St. Clair name names of the worst polluters, deforesters and despoilers of the wild, and the top lobbyists they employ to pass laws, gut regulations, broker deals and win tax breaks to legitimize their poisoning and destruction of the environment. Roundtable Summary -- On January 14, 1999, seven non-governmental organizations launched their national human rights and environment programs by convening a Roundtable dialogue on the key issues for the coming millennium. See also California Accountability Project. Salon Books | Sweating the big stuff -- Sweating the big stuff: For anti-sweatshop campus agitators, post-''60s activism is trickier than bra-burning. Sexual Harrassment (private model) -- Corporations could learn from U.S. military oversight group''s clarity and correct management of potential sexual harrassment. Social Accountability -- SA8000 is an international standard for social accountability, requiring a social management system (SMS) to ensure compliance and continuous improvement. The requirements in the standard itself are based on recommendation of the International Labour Organisation and on agreements and conventions of the United Nations (Human Rights, Rights of the Child). Socially Responsible Investment Coalition -- Home based in Texas, this corporate "watch dog," was initiated through various Catholic institutions. Member of InterFaith Center of Corporate Responsibility (IRRC) Society of Environmental Journalists -- Publications, links, Internet resources, an online environmental bookstore, and news for environmental journalists Solutions for certain corporate social issues -- Creative consultants to corporations, including tobacco firms, to identify and manage opportunities and vulnerabilities in community and government relations, diversity issues, environmentalism and philanthropy. Student Alliance to Reform Corporations -- Nationwide, college student movement to help make corporations more accountable through working with their school''s investment committees to act and vote SR. Sustainable Value -- Sustainable Value looks at the links between Environmental, Social and Economic Performance Sweatshops monitored -- Economist article of Feb 1999 shows that monitoring sources of Disney, Mattell and others'' manufacturing in Asia has greatly affected these multinational firms'' willingness and actions to reduce slave labor. The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) -- ILRF - Founded in 1986, is a nonprofit action and advocacy organization focused on human rights necessary for life and dignity: (women, children, men are forced to labor without pay, killed, harassed, and fired for speaking out). The MacBride Principles -- Principles of conduct for firms doing business in Northern Ireland. The World Trade Organization -- This organization serves as a sort of trade court for a world government in the way that the UN serves as a world government''s legislature. Like the UN, the members of this governing body are not democratically elected. UK Social Investment Forum -- Nonprofit organization in U.K. for both individual investors wishing socially responsible stock, bond and mutual fund information, as well as Social Investment professionals. Why do big stocks beat little stocks? -- Maine based investment adviser says it need not be so, especially with ethical stocks.
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