CODES OF CONDUCT
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Miscellaneous- articles from International Union Rights (www.ictur.labournet.org),
issue 3, 2001 (courtesy of IUR) Bringing
Codes Down to Earth and Trade
Unions, NGOs, and Corporate Codes of Conduct
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Miscellaneous - January 1999 - In USA introduced a
bill to provide for legal accountability for sweatshop conditions
in the garment industry
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Miscellaneous - January 1999 - European
Parliament adopts a resolution on codes of conduct
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Textile and Footwear - Novembre 1998 - AIP Preliminary Agreement
not accepted by UNITE
and ICCR
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Textile - Novembre 1998 - Benetton's code of conduct related
to child
labour in Turkey
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Textile - Novembre 1998 - Benetton's
Code of conduct signed in 1994
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Coffee - January 1998 - Starbucks progress toward implementing
a code of conduct (see document)
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Toys - November 1997 - Toys Industries of Europe Code
of Business
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Toys - October 1997 - Code
of Conduct adopted by the ARTSANA-CHICCO
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Miscellaneous - October 1997 - NGO charter on transnational
corporations (draft by P.A.N. - Japan) (see document)
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Textile - September 1997 - Euporean textile trade unions
and the european association of textile employers signed an agreement
in order to encourage their members to adhere to the fondamental ILO conventions.
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Toys - 1997 - Code of Practice adopted by Hong
Kong Toys Council
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Miscellaneous - April 1997 - The Code of Conduct approved
by the Clinton Commission and the criticisms made by a few groups working
for workers' rights (see "Code
of Conduct agreed by the Clinton Coalition")
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Footwear - March 1997 - New
Code of Conduct from Nike
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Textiles - December 1996 - Research conducted by the Canadian
Association 'Developpement et Paix' reveals that Levi's Code is being infringed
(see "Enquete
- Verification independante du code de conduite de Levi Strauss&Co"
)
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Miscellaneous - 1996 - The Code issued by the Permanent Tribunal
for Rights and Industrial Hazards (see document
part 1 e part
2)
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Child Labour - October 1996 - The USA Minister of Labour,
Mr. Reich, explains the role of the Codes of Conduct in eliminating Child
Labour (see "Child
labour and codes of conduct in USA" )
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Coffee - October 1996 - The American Association, GLEP, denounces
Starbucks' delay in adopting its Code of Conduct (see "Starbucks
moving slowly" )
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Various - October 1996 - The role of the Codes of Conduct
according to the Asiatic Non-governmental organizations (see document
)
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Toys - February 1996 - Code
of Conduct adopted by the Association of English Industrial Toymakers
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Miscellaneous - February 1996 - Religious groups propose
the principles for making enterprises adopt a standard of global responsability
(see "Global
corporate responsability")
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Miscellaneous - 1996 - The position of the English Organization,
Fair Trade Foundation, on the Codes of Conduct and Monitoring systems (see
"A New Project of The
Fairtrade Foundation")
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Flowers - 1996 - Eight flower-producers in Columbia adopt
a Code of Conduct which respects the environment and the workers (see document
)
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Coffee - October 1995 - In Autumn 1995, the coffee company
Starbucks, disclosed the "Structure
for a Code of Conduct" to improve the conditions of the product
as described in the comment,
the company's decision is the direct result of the pressure campaign organised
by numerous groups
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Textiles - Autumn 1995 - "Clean Clothes Campaign" decided
in autumn 1995 to launch Fair
Trade Charter for Garments,the Code of Conduct for all the Dutch
shoe retailers
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Toys - May 1995 - A coalition of various Asiatic Non-governmental
organizations together with various European NGOs, launches a campaign
to force the Associations of Industrial Toymakers in Hong Kong, Europe
and the United States to adopt the Code of Conduct named "Charter
for Safe Working-conditions in the Toy-making industry"
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Miscellaneous - March 1995 - How
to use codes as campaign tools (by WEDO ).
WEDO's booklet, "Codes of conduct for transnational corporations"
gives a series of suggestions for methods of using the codes of conduct
as pressure tools on the multinationals
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Footwear - 1992 - Nike's
Code of Coduct
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Footwear - 1992 - Reebok's
Code of Conduct