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Position Statement on Corporate Social Responsibility |
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Written by Administrator
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Saturday, 07 January 2012 15:28 |
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In many Asian societies, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is generally understood as being no more than corporate-run community development projects to compensate for social and economic injustices. Most of such projects, like constructing schools and health care centres, have been effectively hegemonic, providing strong legitimacy and extensive license to corporations to sustain the exploitation of the human and natural resources in many countries. A further implication of CSR is that it makes people think that it is the company’s obligation to meet people’s rights to a better education system, clean water, health care, etc., instead of the State or government. At the same time, this has allowed the State to escape from its obligations towards society.
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Last Updated on Saturday, 07 January 2012 15:36 |
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PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN ON THE 17TH SAARC SUMMIT |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 10 November 2011 18:19 |
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The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Summit will be held on November 10-11 in Maldives. Like ASEAN, SAARC is a regional organization that seeks to promote economic, technological, social and cultural development through cooperation and integration efforts. Its member countries include the South Asian countries of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. The Republic of Maldives declared “Building Bridges” – both in terms of physical connectivity and figurative political dialogue – as the theme for the 17th SAARC Summit this year.
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PEOPLE’S STATEMENT ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND RIO+20 |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:28 |
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August 17, 2011
Bangkok, Thailand
We, 52 women and men from 18 countries Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, China and Hongkong SAR,India, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Spain,Thailand, Timor Leste, USA, and Vietnam and representing peasants, agricultural workers, fisherfolk,indigenous peoples, workers, women, youth and students, refugees and stateless persons, academia,environmental and support NGOs and networks met for the ‘Promoting a Transformative Agenda forSustainable Development: A Strategy Workshop on Rio+20’ on August 15?17, 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Last Updated on Monday, 17 October 2011 16:29 |
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Promoting a Transformative Agenda for Sustainable Development: A Workshop on Rio+20 |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 11 July 2011 10:33 |
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SAVE THE DATE!
17 August 2011
Bangkok, Thailand
The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) will take place in 2012, marking two decades of official international action on sustainable development. In the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the international community came to recognize the unequal and unsustainable character of dominant development patterns. At the same time, it committed to take steps towards more equitable and sustainable development, and produced the conventions on climate change, biodiversity, and Agenda 21. Twenty years on, the world finds itself far off track in realizing the vision of Rio, even before the explosion of the multiple financial and economic crises of 2007-08. These recent crises further aggravated the food, energy and climate crises and underscored the urgency of a global shift to alternative development modes.
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