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作者: [comment] Jagdish Bhagwati, professor of economics & law, Columbia Univ. & senior fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, in Financial Times

The agreement on trade between the Bush administration and the Democrats in Congress, announced on May 10, takes the demand for the integration of labour standards in trade treaties up a notch... [The] compromise to insert stronger protection of labour...

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• 另见: Columbia Univ. professor Jagdish Bhagwati says US deal on labour & trade born of domestic protectionism, threatens global trade

作者: Christian Aid

...The Dialogue Roundtable [for the Tintaya mine] represents an important attempt on the part of its members, including BHP Billiton, to create an effective mechanism for resolving the many conflicts that have arisen in the Espinar province. It is one...

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• 另见: Peru: Increased mining is harming local communities, says Christian Aid report
• 相关企业: Anglo American BHP (formerly BHP Billiton) Doe Run (part of Renco) Manhattan Minerals Renco

作者: Mark Gruenberg, International Labor Communications Association

Increased globalization of economies has brought a string of broken promises to the world's workers, a top human rights advocate says--even as a backer of globalization chanted "free trade" as a mantra to solve all problems.

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• 另见: ExxonMobil lawsuit (re Aceh)
• 相关企业: Coca-Cola ExxonMobil

作者: International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)

Brazil has ratified seven of the eight core ILO labour Conventions...In view of restrictions on trade union rights, discrimination, child labour and forced labour, determined measures are needed to comply with the commitments Brazil has accepted...

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作者: Katarina Wahlberg, Global Policy Forum

Trade unions and labor organizations...fear that CAFTA will worsen labor conditions, decrease wages and increase the number of people employed in the Export Processing Zones (EPZ)...About 65 TNCs [transnational corporations] have factories in the free...

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• 相关企业: Ford Gap Sears

作者: Professor Margaret Bedggood

[course taught at Summer School in Intl. Human Rights Law, Oxford Univ. & George Washington Univ. Law School, 2004]

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• 另见: Freeport-McMoRan lawsuits (re West Papua) Nike lawsuit (Kasky v Nike, re denial of labour abuses) Shell lawsuit (re Nigeria - Kiobel & Wiwa) Slavery reparations lawsuit (re USA) Syllabus: "Human Rights in the Marketplace" (summer 2004 course, Intl. Human Rights Law programme, Oxford Univ.) Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador) Unocal lawsuit (re Myanmar) 显示更多显示较少
• 相关企业: Enron Freeport Indonesia (part of Freeport-McMoRan) Freeport-McMoRan Nike Shell Texaco (part of Chevron) Unocal (part of Chevron)