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Corporate Social Responsibility: an ISO standard in the wings ...

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 01:18am on 09/04/2006 under , , , , , , , , , , , ,

stratfor.com PUBLIC POLICY INTELLIGENCE REPORT 04.06.2006

Ending the CSR Debate
Bart Mongoven

note: the text here came from an email from stratfor.com - which requires you to pay to access most of their content ... the mark-ups here are my own - i didn't see any point leaving in links that i couldn't use. [the text is in usa english. sorry.]

The debate over the moral responsibilities of corporations to society has taken on a more solid form with the release of the first draft of the standard known as ISO-26000. When finished, the standard -- drafted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) -- can be used by corporations to determine (and prove) that they are acting in a socially responsible manner. The standard will not be published until 2008, and the current draft reportedly is in a highly unfinished form, with many significant questions still to be answered. Nonetheless, the release of the draft marks a turning point in the long-running debate.

there is debate about whether "corporate social responsibility" even exists ... and what, if anything, it might actually mean.

the idea of an international standard for corporate social responsibility intrigues me greatly. (hence, i suppose, this post :)

trust is getting bandied about a bit now and then as an important - even crucial - factor in corporate success. at the very worst in the form of 'branding' [or as i put it recently, blanding]
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Corporate Social Responsibility: an ISO standard in the wings ...

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 01:18am on 09/04/2006 under , , , , , , , , , , , ,

stratfor.com PUBLIC POLICY INTELLIGENCE REPORT 04.06.2006

Ending the CSR Debate
Bart Mongoven

note: the text here came from an email from stratfor.com - which requires you to pay to access most of their content ... the mark-ups here are my own - i didn't see any point leaving in links that i couldn't use. [the text is in usa english. sorry.]

The debate over the moral responsibilities of corporations to society has taken on a more solid form with the release of the first draft of the standard known as ISO-26000. When finished, the standard -- drafted by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) -- can be used by corporations to determine (and prove) that they are acting in a socially responsible manner. The standard will not be published until 2008, and the current draft reportedly is in a highly unfinished form, with many significant questions still to be answered. Nonetheless, the release of the draft marks a turning point in the long-running debate.

there is debate about whether "corporate social responsibility" even exists ... and what, if anything, it might actually mean.

the idea of an international standard for corporate social responsibility intrigues me greatly. (hence, i suppose, this post :)

trust is getting bandied about a bit now and then as an important - even crucial - factor in corporate success. at the very worst in the form of 'branding' [or as i put it recently, blanding]
( Read more... )
Music:: computer fan hum
Mood:: 'indescribable' indescribable
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happy round-the-sun day [profile] lecomtesse, [profile] riniishuuma, and [profile] i_rasputina

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happy round-the-sun day [livejournal.com profile] lecomtesse, <user site="livejournal.com

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Pentagon rules thwart fair trials for Guantanamo detainees

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:03pm on 09/04/2006 under , , ,

Saturday, April 08, 2006
Pentagon rules thwart fair trials for Guantanamo detainees: US military lawyer
Greg Sampson at 11:21 AM ET

[JURIST] A US military lawyer acting as defense counsel for a Yemeni prisoner on trial for terrorism-related offenses before a military commission [DOD backgrounder; JURIST news archive] at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] on Friday challenged a US Department of Defense regulation that says that only military attorneys with security clearances are allowed to see secret documents relating to their cases, effectively precluding detainees from representing themselves. Army Maj. Tom Fleener [Wikipedia profile] said that self-representation was recognized as a right by virtually every court in the world, and argued that "the secretary of defense and his delegees [sic] have messed this thing up" by enforcing procedural rules that make impossible a fair trial of detainees as mandated by presidential order.

Defendant Ali Hamza al-Bahlul has been directly tied to Osama bin Laden. Al-Bahlul has been boycotting his trial [JURIST report] since the military commissions resumed in January after a year-long hiatus. In March he specifically claimed that no "enemy" US military lawyer could represent him, demanding instead that he be allowed to defend himself or hire a Yemeni lawyer.

Reuters has more.

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Pentagon rules thwart fair trials for Guantanamo detainees

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:03pm on 09/04/2006 under , , ,

Saturday, April 08, 2006
Pentagon rules thwart fair trials for Guantanamo detainees: US military lawyer
Greg Sampson at 11:21 AM ET

[JURIST] A US military lawyer acting as defense counsel for a Yemeni prisoner on trial for terrorism-related offenses before a military commission [DOD backgrounder; JURIST news archive] at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] on Friday challenged a US Department of Defense regulation that says that only military attorneys with security clearances are allowed to see secret documents relating to their cases, effectively precluding detainees from representing themselves. Army Maj. Tom Fleener [Wikipedia profile] said that self-representation was recognized as a right by virtually every court in the world, and argued that "the secretary of defense and his delegees [sic] have messed this thing up" by enforcing procedural rules that make impossible a fair trial of detainees as mandated by presidential order.

Defendant Ali Hamza al-Bahlul has been directly tied to Osama bin Laden. Al-Bahlul has been boycotting his trial [JURIST report] since the military commissions resumed in January after a year-long hiatus. In March he specifically claimed that no "enemy" US military lawyer could represent him, demanding instead that he be allowed to defend himself or hire a Yemeni lawyer.

Reuters has more.

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Mood:: 'nostalgic' nostalgic
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UN genocide prevention adviser denounces international reluctance to stop atrocities

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:11pm on 09/04/2006 under , , , ,

Saturday, April 08, 2006
UN genocide prevention adviser denounces international reluctance to stop atrocities
Alexis Unkovic at 11:07 AM ET

[JURIST] UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez [official profile] said Friday that the international community remains reluctant to contribute the funds and military personnel necessary to stop genocide worldwide, as he spoke at a press conference on the 12th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda [JURIST news archive], during which some 800,000 Rwandans - mostly Tutsis - were killed over 100 days. Mendez said the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur [JURIST news archive] region provides just one example of the world's lack of commitment, likening the situation there to that in Rwanda in 1994.

In a related development Friday, Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation Armand De Decker [official profile] asked the country's parliament to consider enacting a law that would prohibit citizens from denying the Rwandan genocide, perhaps modeling the new initiative after a 1995 Belgian law that prohibited citizens from denying the occurrence of the Holocaust. Rwanda is a former Belgian colony.

AP has more.
Reuters has additional coverage.

genocide has long been considered "too hard" - at least politically - by many u.n. member states' governments. hence, they're happy to see someone talking about the problem, but are reluctant to do much more.

there's still argument about what constitutes "genocide". no one wants their 'scrappy little fights' to be labelled as either genocide or terrorism.

genocide is particularly awkward since, by definition, the state itself is either directly involved or is turning 'a blind eye'.

propaganda that incites genocide is part of the grab-bag of offences under the genocide convention.
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UN genocide prevention adviser denounces international reluctance to stop atrocities

posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 06:11pm on 09/04/2006 under , , , ,

Saturday, April 08, 2006
UN genocide prevention adviser denounces international reluctance to stop atrocities
Alexis Unkovic at 11:07 AM ET

[JURIST] UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Juan Mendez [official profile] said Friday that the international community remains reluctant to contribute the funds and military personnel necessary to stop genocide worldwide, as he spoke at a press conference on the 12th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda [JURIST news archive], during which some 800,000 Rwandans - mostly Tutsis - were killed over 100 days. Mendez said the ongoing conflict in Sudan's Darfur [JURIST news archive] region provides just one example of the world's lack of commitment, likening the situation there to that in Rwanda in 1994.

In a related development Friday, Belgian Minister of Development Cooperation Armand De Decker [official profile] asked the country's parliament to consider enacting a law that would prohibit citizens from denying the Rwandan genocide, perhaps modeling the new initiative after a 1995 Belgian law that prohibited citizens from denying the occurrence of the Holocaust. Rwanda is a former Belgian colony.

AP has more.
Reuters has additional coverage.

genocide has long been considered "too hard" - at least politically - by many u.n. member states' governments. hence, they're happy to see someone talking about the problem, but are reluctant to do much more.

there's still argument about what constitutes "genocide". no one wants their 'scrappy little fights' to be labelled as either genocide or terrorism.

genocide is particularly awkward since, by definition, the state itself is either directly involved or is turning 'a blind eye'.

propaganda that incites genocide is part of the grab-bag of offences under the genocide convention.
Mood:: 'mellow' mellow
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