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Title: [DOC] Examples of companies’ impacts on a range of human rights issues
Author:Business & Human Rights Resource Centre Dated:Dec 2005
The table below lists a range of human rights issues for business. For each issue, it provides an example of a positive company initiative and an example of an alleged abuse.
[Issues covered in the chart:
- Workplace health & safety
- Supply chain
- Freedom of association / Right to form & join trade unions
- Working conditions
- Child labour
- Forced labour
- Age discrimination
- Disability discrimination
- Gender discrimination
- Racial/ethnic/ caste discrimination
- Religious discrimination
- Sexual harassment
- Unfair trial & rule of law
- Genocide
- Rape & sexual abuse
- Torture & ill-treatment
- Security & conflict
- Freedom of expression
- Housing & displacement
- Health
- Access to medicines
- Poverty & development
- Disclosure/use of payments to govts. (affecting poverty & development)
- Indigenous peoples
- Access to water
- Environment
- Education]
Title: Jobs kill almost 1000 a year in Canada:
Unions prepare for April 28, the National Day of Mourning for workers killed and injured on the job [PDF]
Author:[round up of articles by] Straight Goods [Canada] Dated:18 Apr 2005
April 28 has been singled out to offer employees and employers the opportunity to remember the dead, injured and ill as well as publicly renew their commitment to improve health and safety in the workplace...The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) estimates that about 1.2 million workers [worldwide] a year are killed on the job... [refers to Kader]
Author:International Union of Food and Allied Workers (IUF) Dated:18 Jul 2003
CP was the co-owner of the Kader Toy Factory...10 years later there has been virtually no change in health and safety standards in Thailand (in some measures they have worsened since 1993), no one from the CP Group or management of the Kader factory has been found responsible for anything other than building code violations (warranting a US$12,000 fine, imposed 10 years after the fire) and the workers who survived the fire today lack adequate social protection or the means to recover their lives...Does CP respect the right of workers to form unions and negotiate independently of government or company intervention? Has CP supported improved health and safety regulations that are independently monitored?
Author:Penchan Charoensuthiphan, Bangkok Post Dated:21 Apr 2003
`Workplace-safety awareness still low' - Union leaders want to pursue a court case on the Kader doll factory fire in Nakhon Pathom that killed 188 workers 10 years ago, to make sure the victims get justice.
10 May 1993 saw the world’s worst ever factory fire in Thailand. The fire in the Kader Toy Factory on the outskirts of Bangkok killed 188 workers and seriously injured 469. The workers, who were mostly women, were locked inside the factory in order to prevent them from stealing toys.
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