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- Behind The Label - Video footage and daily updates from "The Nike Truth Tour," showing exploitation of factory workers in the apparel industry, focusing on Nike. Interactive.
www.behindthelabel.org
- Blood Stained Diamonds - An investigation of the ethics of the diamond cartel. The purchase of engagement diamonds supports a diamond trade heavily involved in debt bonded child labour and hazardous work practices illegal in the US or Britain.
www.sparkle.plus.com/index.html
- Colombia Nunca Más - Beginning information disclosing murders and disappearances of union leaders in Colombia, South America, in year 2000.
www.openwords.com/nomore
- Companies Making a Difference - Companies have programs for the health and rights of women, including reproductive health and family planning.
www.facetoface.org/companies.html
- Corporate Conscience Awards - CCA recognizes companies that respect human rights. Social Accountability International (SAI), a human rights organization, manages the CCA. SAI, formerly the Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency, develops and verifies standards of corporate social responsibility, emphasizing workplace and community standards.
www.cepaa.org/CCA.htm
- Made in Democracies - This list of countries is for consumers who want to buy products made in democracies. The name of the country where the product was made is on the product's label.
www.madeindemocracies.net
- Oxfam on Fair Trade - Information about Oxfam and fair trade: how important fair trade is, why Oxfam supports it, case studies and more.
www.oxfam.org.uk/fair_trade.html
- 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)
www.flash.net/~sric/aboutus.htm
- The Corporate Examiner - This publication examines practices of US corporations. It is produced by the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, an association of institutional investors. ICCR sponsors shareholder resolutions on social issues, including human rights
www.iccr.org/products/examiner_ltst.htm
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