Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mining, and Sustainable Development Taking Harper's and the World Bank's positions together as representative of the current dominant view of the role of foreign direct investment in mining in Latin America, we must ask under what conditions mining activity might contribute to poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Harper points to the world-class corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives of Canadian mining companies, along with the Canadian government's National Roundtable report on CSR and the Extractive Sector in Developing Nations (Interview, 2007) and the World Bank's Extractive Industries Review (EIR) points to the enabling conditions of "pro-poor public and corporate governance," "effective social and envir...
... policies," and "respect for human rights" (WBG, 2003a: 1). Although the Canadian government...
I had many relatives killed in Burundi. The reason I'm involved with Amnesty is because it's one of the few organizations that's documented the atrocities in Burundi. It's critical to mobilize people to be aware of, and to take concrete action to help stop violations of human rights wherever they occur," she said. "I was so impressed by what they had done," LeGal said. "It's all about empowering themselves. We've been raising money for them for the last three years in Winnipeg. But this is our first year in the run." Le Gal said she won't be running in the race but will be there supporting the volunteers.
Malaysia held the ninth Sarawak state election on May 20, 2006. It has invited various issues such as native customary rights land development, fuel hike and Chief Minister successor issue. Barisan Nasional won 62 of the 71 seats. The result was seen as a shock because BN failed to maintain the big mandate given from the previous election which was 60 of the 62 seats contested. The opposition meanwhile won 9 seats, reflecting new voting attitudes among the voters. This article examines the election issues and their performance in the election. This article also discusses the factors that influenced the voting patterns and the implications in the future. It is drawn from a 14 days fieldwork since nomination day, throughout election campaign period and polling day in May 2006.
The committee is concerned that, despite Canada's economic prosperity and the reduction of the number of people living below the Low Income Cut Off (poverty indicator), 11.2 per cent of its population still lived in poverty in 2004," says the 11-page report. The panelists urge Ottawa to provide "adequate child-care services" as a way of allowing women to exercise their right to work, as guaranteed by the covenant. "It's not clear what the United Nations has against low-income workers because raising the minimum wage inevitably pushes many of them outside the workforce," said Fred McMahon, international studies director with the Fraser Institute. "The United Nations should recognize that Canada is a democracy, and that we just elected a government that has a right to set its own policie...
... meeting internationally agreed economic, social and cultural rights. The independent experts behin...
General social trends that promote individual human rights and racial equality may also increase the chances for social contact between groups. An example of the strength of these third-party influences is the early research on intergroup marriage (conducted primarily in the United States) that focused on interracial marriage as a proxy for acceptance of other groups (e.g., Merton, 1941 ; Gordon, 1964). More recent research, however, has shown that third parties strongly influence rates of interracial marriage, and several authors have shown that intermarriage continues to evoke an emotional response from some members of both white and minority communities (Bobo, 1983; Herring and Amissah, 1990; Bobo and Kluegel, 1993; Pettigrew, 1997; Johnson and Jacobson, 2005; Jacobson and Johnson,...
The social context is a growing public anxiety about China on a panoply of issues including human rights, democracy, economic competition, product safety, climate change, foreign policy in the developing world, and military modernization.
Muriel Stanley Venne was honoured by Native Outreach for her commitment to improving employment opportunities for Aboriginal people in Alberta. The Métis woman had been appointed as one of the first seven commissioners of the Alberta Human Rights Commission in 1973. She went on to establish a solid reputation for dealing with human rights and social justice issues, founding the Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women. The mother of four has been honoured by the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, the Métis Women of Alberta, Alberta Human Rights, and Native Counselling Services of Alberta, to name just a few, and continues to be active in the province today. At the University of Alberta campus, Aboriginal high school students from around the province travelled to celebr...
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