SOCIAL CLAUSES
- september 1996 - Approved by the State of California a law that bans the state's buying goods made in other countries by slave labor and penalizes businesses who knowwingly sell the state such products.
- july 1997 - ILO Director-General backs away from a global "social label" proposal, but pushed ahead for an ILO Declaration on core labour standards.
- July 1997 - Chinese Slave Labor Act introduced in the US House of Representatives to ban slave labour form China imports
- Introduction to the social clause
- 1997 - The Trade-unions do not want the Health and Safety Standards for workplaces to be fixed by the Industrial Standard Organization (ISO) (see document)
- 1997 - The Singapore Conference of OMC Ministers adopts the Resolution on the Social Clauses (see "Weak declaration on labour rights in the WTO" )
- november 1996 - The opinion of 'Women Working Worldwide' on the effectiveness of the social clauses in the defence of women (see "Are social clauses the answer?" )
- october 1996 - A coalition of organizations in the Philippines says 'Yes', with reserve, to the Social Clauses (see document)
- july 1996 - The USA Minister of Labour, Mr. Reich's request for discussion of the Social Clauses (see documento )
- april 1996 - G7's internal discussion of the Social Clauses (see G7 Backs "core labour standards" )
- april 1996 - Some American groups propose the suspension of the commercial privileges accorded to Pakistan which still condones slavery (see "Sanctioning Pakistan" )
- 1996 - The newly-elected member of parliament, Sainjon's opinion on the obligations the European Union should meet within the sphere of Social Clauses (see document )
- 1996 - The position of the Review "Third World Resurgence" on the Social Clauses (see "Social Clause as an ideology" )
- 1995 - Criticism of Senator Tom Harkin's proposal for the repercussions it had on employment in Bangladesh (see document )
- october 1995 - The Indian Co-ordination National Consultations on Social Clauses in Multinational Trade Agreements held in Bangalore on 22-29th october 1995, confirmed its opposition to the introduction of Social Clauses in WTO and undertook to look into the possibilities of passing an ONU convention on workers' rights with adeguate means of effecting them (see documents "A Brief Background" and "Bangalore - Statement")