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CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY - DOSSIER REPORTS

2015 - 2014 - 2013 - 2012 - 2011 - 2010 - 2009 - 2008 - 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - <2000

Nov 2018:

Remedies for Indian seed workers in sight? - Monitoring report on tackling child labour and non-payment of minimum wages in hybrid cotton and vegetable seeds production in India (REPORT ICN/Stop Child Labour)

Jun 21, 2018:

Worker Rights Consortium Assessment Shahi Exports Pvt. Ltd. (Bangalore, India) : Findings and recommendations (REPORT Workers Rights Consortium)

Jun 2018:

Case Closed, Problems Persist : Grievance mechanisms of ETI and SAI fail to benefit young women and girls in the South Indian textile industry (REPORT HWW/SOMO/ICN)

Feb 2018:

The Hidden Cost of Jewelry : Human Rights in Supply Chains and the Responsibility of Jewelry Companies (REPORT Human Rights Watch)

Jan 2018:

Labour Without Liberty – Female Migrant Workers in Bangalore's Garment Industry (REPORT ICN/Clean Clothes Campaign/Garment Labour Union) [abstract report] [report in Catalan: Treball sense llibertat]

Aug 2017:

The Dark Sites of Granite : Modern slavery, child labour and unsafe work in Indian granite quarries - What should companies do? (REPORT ICN/Stop Child Labour/Kerk in Actie) [summary report] / [Zusammenfassung Rapport]

Mar 2017:

Do leather workers matter? Violating labour rights and environmental norms in India’s leather production (REPORT ICN)

Jan 2017:

Branded Childhood: How garment brands contribute to low wages, long working hours, school dropout and child labour in Bangladesh (REPORT SOMO/Stop Child Labour)

2016:

India Country Study 2016 (REPORT Fair Wear Foundation)

2016:

Rajasthan Stone Quarries : Promoting Human Rights Due Diligence and Access to Redress in Complex Supply Chains (REPORT Corporate Accountability Research)

Dec 2016:

Fabric of Slavery - Large-scale forced (child) labour in India's spinning mills (REPORT ICN)

Dec 2016:

Forced Labour in the Textile and Garment Sector in Tamil Nadu, South India - Strategies for Redress (REPORT Corporate Accountability Research)

Dec 2016:

No Sexual Harassment - The fight against sexual violence at work (BROCHURE ICN/Mondiaal FNV)

Nov 2016:

Barriers to Grievance: Leather Footwear Workers in Tamil Nadu, South India (REPORT Annie Dalaney, RMIT University)

Sep 2016:

Corporate Responsibility in the Natural Stone Sector : The Effectiveness of Voluntary CSR Initiatives in Achieving Sustainability (MASTER THESIS Utrecht University, Faculty of Geosciences)

Sep 2016:

Doing Dutch: A research into the state of pay for workers in garment factories in India working for Dutch fashion brands (REPORT Clean Clothes Campaign/ICN)

Aug 2016:

Walk a Mile In Their Shoes: Workers’ Rights Violations in the Indian Leather and Footwear Industry (REPORT Change Your Shoes/Südwind)

Aug 2016:

Certified Unilever Tea - A Cup Half Empty: Follow-up study on working conditions in Rainforest Alliance certified tea plantations in India (REPORT ICN)

Jun 2016:

Eliminating violence against women at work - Making sexual harassment laws real for Karnataka's women garment workers (REPORT Sisters for Change/Munnade)

May 2016:

Ready for Change? Global Goals at home and abroad (REPORT Partos)

Mar 2016:

Factsheet Corporate social responsibility in India (FACTSHEET RVO/Netherlands Enterprise Agency)

Mar 2016:

Stitching Our Shoes: Homeworkers in South India (REPORT Homeworkers Worldwide/Labour behind the Label/Cividep)

Mar 2016:

Agreement on Sustainable Garment and Textile (REPORT SER)

Feb 2016:

Migrant labour in the textile and garment industry - A focus on the role of buying companies (FACT SHEET SOMO)

Jan 2016:

Unfree and Unfair - Poor Living Conditions and Restricted Freedom of Movement of Young Migrant Garment Workers in Bangalore (PAPER ICN)

Jan 2016:

No Exploitation of Workers - Natural Stone : Guidelines for sites (REPORT TFT)

2015

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Nov 26, 2015:

Child Labour in the Indian Cottonseed Sector (REPORT International Law and Policy Institute (ILPI))

Nov 2015:

Soiled Seeds : Child Labour and Underpayment of Women in Vegetable Seed Production in India (REPORT ICN)

Sep 2015:

Hidden subcontracting in the garment industry - Zooming in on the role of buying companies (FACT SHEET SOMO)

Jul 10, 2015:

Spinning a Yarn : The Effect of Labour Recruitment on Labour Coercion in the Indian Textile Industry (REPORT Jennifer Beckwith, Utrecht University)

Jul 2015:

Cotton's Forgotten Children : Child Labour and below Minimum Wages in Hybrid Cottonseed Production in India (REPORT ICN/Stop Child Labour)

May 27, 2015:

End All Forms of Forced Labour in the Garment Sector - A report of the National Consultation (REPORT DSN-UK/READ/NCDHR)

May 2015:

Rock Bottom - Modern Slavery and Child Labour in South Indian Granite Quarries (REPORT ICN/Stop Child Labour)

Mar 31, 2015:

Study on the Health Status of Adolescent Girls working in Textile and Spinning Mills (REPORT Vaan Muhil)

Mar 2015:

FWF Guidance for Affiliates: The Sumangali Scheme and India's Bonded Labour System (REPORT Fair Wear Foundation)

Feb 2015:

Mind the Gap: How the global brands are not doing enough to ensure a dignified life for workers in the garment and electronics industry in India (REPORT Future in Our Hands/Cividep)

Jan 2015:

Sumangali Trend 2015 - Nagapattinam District (REPORT SAVE)

2014

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Dec 2014:

Addressing Modern Slavery in Tamil Nadu Textile Industry - Feasibility Study Report (REPORT Freedom Fund)

Dec 2014:

Socially Responsible Public Procurement of Garments and Textiles - Focus on the role of European governments and organisations in the public and semi-public sectors (FACT SHEET SOMO)

Oct/Nov 2014:

Löchrige Kleider – Der Missbrauch von Mädchen und jungen Frauen in der Textilindustrie Südindiens [translation Flawed Fabrics in German] (REPORT SOMO/ICN - translation by FemNet)

Oct 2014:

Flawed Fabrics – The abuse of girls and women workers in the South Indian textile industry (REPORT SOMO/ICN)

Aug 1, 2014:

Responsibility Outsourced : Social Audits, Workplace Certification and Twenty Years of Failure to Protect Worker Rights (RAPPORT American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO))

Aug 2014:

Marble Quarry Workers of Makrana - Beyond the Resource Curse Charting a Path to Sustainable Livelihood for Mineral-Dependent Communities (REPORT Mine Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC)/Canberra Australian National University)

Jun 17, 2014:

Regional Level Conference for Textile Industry affected Young women workers: Demands (REPORT Tirupur Peoples Forum for Environment and Labour Rights)

Jun 2014:

The Price of Less Child Labour and Higher Wages - Do seed companies in India enable their farmers payment of legal minimum wages? (REPORT ICN)

Jun 2014:

Holding Companies Accountable - Lessons from transnational human rights litigation (REPORT ECCHR/Brot für die Welt/MISEREOR)

May 2014:

Behind The Showroom - The hidden reality of India’s garment workers (REPORT FIDH)

Mar 2014:

‘Small Steps - Big Challenges’ - Update on (tackling) exploitation of girls and young women in the garment industry of South India (PAPER FNV Mondiaal/ICN)

Mar 2014:

Child Labour - Focus on the role of buying companies (FACT SHEET SOMO)

Jan 2014:

Raising the voice of workers in global supply chains - Global leverages in the organising strategies of three ‘new’ labour unions in the Indian garment sector (PAPER Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)

2013

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Oct 25, 2013:

Business and the fight against child labour - Experience from India, Brazil and South Africa (REPORT ILO)

Sep 2013:

Forced Labour : Focus on the role of buying companies (FACT SHEET SOMO)

Jul 2013:

Unsafe Garment Factory Buildings - Zooming in on the role of buying companies (FACT SHEET SOMO)

Mar 2013:

Time for Transparency: The case of the Tamil Nadu textile and garment industry (PAPER SOMO/ICN)

2012

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Dec 2012:

Wages of Inequality - Wage Discrimination and Underpayment in Hybrid Seed Production in India (REPORT Fair Labor Association/ICN)

Dec(?) 2012:

Corporate Social Responsibility in der Textilindustrie: Welchen Einfluss haben "Codes of Conduct" von Modeunternehmen auf die Arbeitsbedingungen von Fabrikarbeiterinnen in Indien? – Eine literaturgestützte Problemanalyse am Beispiel des "Sumangali"-Schemas (REPORT Studien zur Materiellen Kultur - Universität Oldenburg)

Oct 2012:

Toxic Tanneries : The Health Repercussions of Bangladesh’s Hazaribagh Leather (RAPPORT Human Rights Watch)

Jul 2012:

Bonded (child) labour in the South Indian Garment Industry: An Update of Debate and Action on the 'Sumangali Scheme' (REPORT SOMO/ICN)

Jun 2012:

The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises - A tool for responsible business conduct (REPORT OECD Watch)

Jun 2012:

Out of work and into school : Action plan for companies to combat child labour - REVISED EDITION (REPORT Stop Child Labour)

May 2012:

Understanding the Characteristics of the Sumangali Scheme in Tamil Nadu Textile & Garment Industry and Supply Chain Linkages (REPORT Fair Labor Association/Solidaridad-South & South East Asia)

Apr 2012:

Maid in India – Young Dalit Women Continue to Suffer Exploitative Conditions in India’s Garment Industry (REPORT SOMO/ICN)

Mar 2012:

Still 'Captured by Cotton'? – Update on exploitation of women workers in the garment industry in Tamil Nadu, South India (REPORT SOMO/ICN)

Jan 2012:

CSR Frame of Reference - version 2012 (PUBLICATION MVO Platform)

2011

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Oct 2011:

Certified Unilever Tea – Small Cup, Big Difference? (REPORT SOMO/ICN)

Jul 2011:

Access To Justice: Human Rights Abuses Involving Corporations - India (REPORT International Commission of Jurists)

Jun 2011:

Sustainable Seed Supply Chain Management - A case study on Syngenta ´s Indian hybrid vegetable seed supply chain (MBA Thesis Sebastiaan Stiller, Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM), Leuphana University of Lueneburg)

May 2011:

Captured by Cotton – Exploited Dalit girls produce garments in India for European and US markets (REPORT SOMO/ICN)

May 2011:

Every Thirty Minutes – Farmer Suicides, Human Rights, and the Agrarian Crisis in India (REPORT CHR&GJ)

Feb 2011:

Responsible Supply Chain Management - Potential success factors and challenges for addressing prevailing human rights and other CSR issues in supply chains of EU-based companies (RAPPORT CREM)

Jan 2011:

The impact of the OECD's national contact points in a globalized labour market - An analysis of the cases until 2011 and their outcome (MASTER THESIS José Manuel Angulo Jugo)

2010

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Dec 2010:

Child Labour in Production of Cotton Seeds on Monsanto Plots in District Sabarkantha of Gujarat (REPORT Prayas Centre for Labour Research & Action)

Nov 2010:

"No Child Labour – Better Wages": Impact of elimination of child labour on wages and labour conditions of adult labour - Case Study of cottonseed sector in Andhra Pradesh (REPORT ICN/FNV Mondiaal)

Nov 2010:

Let Parents Earn and Children Learn - Final report (REPORT FNV Mondiaal)

Sep 2010:

Trade Invaders – How big business is driving the EU-India free trade negotiations (REPORT CEO/India FDI Watch)

Jun 7, 2010:

Missed the Goal for Workers: The Reality of Soccer Ball Stitchers in Pakistan, India, China and Thailand (REPORT International Labor Rights Forum)

Jun 2010:

MVO Toolkit India - (REPORT Internationaal Ondernemen) CHECK

Jun 2010:

Seeds of Child Labour - Signs of Hope: Child and Adult Labour in Cottonseed Production in India (REPORT ILRF/ICN/Stop Child Labour)

Jun 2010:

Growing Up in the Danger Fields: Child and Adult Labour in Vegetable Seed Production in India (REPORT ILRF/ICN/Stop Child Labour)

Mar 2010:

India's Childhood in the "Pits": A Report on the Impacts of Mining on Children in India (REPORT Dhaatri-Samata/HAQ Centre for Child Rights)

2009

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2009:

Stitching a Decent Wage Across Borders: The Asia Floor Wage Proposal (RAPPORT Asia Floor Wage Campaign)

Nov 2009:

Extending labour inspections to the informal sector and agriculture (WORKING PAPER Chronic Poverty research Centre)

Jul 2009:

Richer Bosses, Poorer Workers: Bangalore's Garment Industry (REPORT Cividep/SOMO)

May 2009:

Erratum [to Unilever] Annual report and Accounts: Adding Insecurity to Life (REPORT FNV Mondiaal)

Jan 2009:

Feasibility Study for Setting Standards in Natural Stone Sector in Rajasthan (REPORT Centre for Education and Communication (CEC)/Terre des Hommes)

2008

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Sep 2008:

Dalit Discrimination Check (REPORT Danish Institute for Human Rights & IDSN)

Sep 2008:

Corporate Social Responsibility: Whose Voice Is Heard? (REPORT MVO Platform)

Jun 2008:

Child Labour, Trade Relations and Corporate Social Responsibility: What the European Union should do (REPORT Stop Child Labour)

Jun 2008:

Sustainability Issues in the Tea Sector - A Comparative Analysis of Six Leading Producing Countries (REPORT SOMO)

May 2008:

Out of work and into school : Action plan for companies to combat child labour (REPORT Stop Child Labour)

Apr 2008:

Child Labour in Cottonseed Production - A Case Study of Cottonseed Farms in North Gujarat (REPORT Dakshini Rajasthan Mazdoor Union)

Apr 2008:

The Right to Adequate Food in India (REPORT FIAN)

Feb 2008:

Labour Rights and Sportswear Production in India : A Study of Soccer Ball Industry in Jalandhar (REPORT Centre for Education and Communication (CEC))

Jan 2008:

Continuous improvement of sustainability performance in tea producing countries : CSR initiatives in the tea sector (REPORT AIDEnvironment)

Jan 2008:

Improving Working Conditions at Chinese Natural Stone Companies (REPORT SwedWatch/SOMO/IHLO)

2008:

Rich Lands Poor People: Is 'Sustainable' Mining Possible? (REPORT Centre for Science and Environment)

2007

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Dec 2007:

Verhaltenskodizes in der Natursteinbranche - Vorschläge für eine Umsetzung (REPORT Südwind)

Dec 2007:

Partnerships on Development (MASTER THESIS Marieke de Leede, Faculty of Law, Lund University)

Oct 2007:

Cleaner, greener cotton - Impacts and better management practices (REPORT WWF)

Sep 2007:

Child Bondage Continues in Indian Cotton Supply Chain: More than 400,000 children in India involved in hybrid cottonseed cultivation (REPORT OECD Watch/DWHH/ICN/EWN NRW/ILRF)

Aug 2007:

International Coffee Meet Wayanad 2007 - A Short Report (REPORT Partners in Change)

Aug 2007:

CSR Frame of Reference 2007 (REPORT MVO Platform)

Jul 2007:

Feasibility of a Code of Conduct for the Dutch natural stone sector: Growing insights through a pilot project with RMP Grafmonumenten and engagement of Indian stakeholders (REPORT CREM)

Jun 2007:

Seeds of Change: Impact of Interventions by Bayer and Monsanto on the Elimination of Child Labour on Farms Producing Hybrid Cottonseed in India (REPORT OECD Watch/DWHH/ICN/EWN NRW/ILRF)

Mar 2007:

Think Locally, Act Globally?: An actor-oriented case study on the transnational cooperation of NGOs on BAYER and child labour in Andhra Pradesh, India (MASTER THESIS Julia Brümmer, University of Maastricht)

Mar 2007:

The ISO Working Group on Social Responsibility: Developing the future ISO SR 26000 Standard (BRIEFING PAPER SOMO)

2006

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Sep 2006:

From Quarry to Graveyard - Corporate social responsibility in the natural stone sector (REPORT CREM/ICN/SOMO)

May 2006:

Offside! Labour Rights and Sportswear Production in Asia (REPORT Oxfam International)

Mar 2006:

Sustainabilitea: The Dutch Tea Market and Corporate Social Responsibility (REPORT SOMO/ProFound/ICN)

2005

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Dec 2005:

Budhpura 'Ground Zero' - Sandstone quarrying in India (REPORT ICN)

Nov 2005:

Indian Attraction: Profitable multinationals as subsidy junkies - A study of incentives for foreign investment in India (REPORT FinnWatch)

Nov 2005

Between modernism and archaism: The bonded labour situation in India (THESIS Frédéric Robin, CCFD)

Oct 2005:

The Price of Childhood - On the link between prices paid to farmers and the use of child labour in cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh (REPORT ICN/International Labor Rights Fund/Eine Welt Netz NRW)

Aug 1, 2005:

Vedanta Resources plc Counter Report 2005: Ravages through India (REPORT Nostromo Research/India Resource Centre)

Jun 2005

Caste Discrimination and the Private Sector: Employment Principles for Foreign Investors in South Asia (REPORT Dalit Solidarity Network UK)

May 2005:

Tea Break - A crisis brewing in India (REPORT ActionAid)

Apr 2005:

Report on Negative Effects of German Politics and Investments in India (WORKING PAPER Centre for Education and Communication (CEC))

Apr 2005:

Investing in Human Development - A guideline for taking development aspects into account when making socially responsible investments (RAPPORT SÜDWIND Institut für Ökonomie und Ökumene)

Jan 2005:

Elimination of Child Labour in Cotton Seed Farms through Social Mobilisation - Project Report March 2004 to January 2005 (REPORT MV Foundation)

2004

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Nov 2004:

Clouds of Injustice: Bhopal Disaster 20 years on (REPORT Amnesty International)

Oct 2004:

Child Labour in Hybrid Cottonseed Production in Andhra Pradesh: Recent Developments (REPORT ICN)

Oct 2004:

Child Labour in Hybrid Cottonseed Production in Gujarat and Karnataka (REPORT ICN)

Mar 2004:

The Politics of Negotiations: MVF and Multinational Corporations on Child Labor in Cottonseed Fields (REPORT Yumi Lifer)

Feb 2004:

Corporate Social Responsibility in India: Policy and practices of Dutch companies (REPORT CREM)

Jan 2004:

Where is the Limit to Corporate Responsiblity? - Trade Relations and Supply Chain Responsibility of Multinational Enterprises (REPORT Germanwatch)

2003

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Apr 2003:

Child Labour and Trans-National Seed Companies in Hybrid Cotton Seed Production in Andhra Pradesh (REPORT ICN)

2002

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Jul 2002:

Labour Standards in the Sports Goods Industry in India - with special reference to Child Labour: A Case for Corporate Social Responsibility (REPORT ICN/TATA) (zie ook summary)

2001

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2001:

Seeds of Bondage: Female child bonded labour in hybrid cottonseed production in Andhra Pradesh (REPORT BCF/Plan International)

2000

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Jun 2000:

The Dark Side of Football: Child and adult labour in India's football industry and the role of FIFA (REPORT ICN)

Mar 2000:

Controlling Corporate Wrongs: The Liability of Multinational Corporations (REPORT IRENE)

1997

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Nov 1997:

No rose without a thorn: Exportbloemen uit India (REPORT ICN) (Dutch version)

1996

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Nov 1996:

Child and adult labour in the export-oriented garment and gem polishing industry of India with case studies from Tirupur, Bangalore, Jaipur and Trichy (REPORT ICN)