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The new trans-national politics of LGBT human rights in the Commonwealth: what can UK NGOs learn from the global South? [PDF]
, 2015 How should struggles for decriminalisation, human rights and equality in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity be taken forward? The chapter discusses this issue in a context where the British Empire’s legal legacy of criminalisation ...
Waites, Matthew
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Health systems analysis of eye care services in Zambia: evaluating progress towards VISION 2020 goals. [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: VISION 2020 is a global initiative launched in 1999 to eliminate avoidable blindness by 2020. The objective of this study was to undertake a situation analysis of the Zambian eye health system and assess VISION 2020 process indicators on ...
Blanchet, K +7 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The governance of chemicals and nanomaterials presents a critical challenge, as significant uncertainties regarding safety and sustainability match their innovation potential. This creates a “knowledge‐to‐action” gap, hindering the practical implementation of safety and sustainability by design (SSbD) principles.
Mario Miozza +4 more
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Social Washing and Authentic Accountability
EncyclopediaSocial washing refers to the strategic exaggeration or misrepresentation of an organisation’s commitment to social responsibility, ethical governance, or social impact without corresponding substantive action.
Charles Tong-Lit Leung
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Crowdsourced mapping in crisis zones: collaboration, organisation and impact
Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 2019 Crowdsourced mapping has become an integral part of humanitarian response, with high profile deployments of platforms following the Haiti and Nepal earthquakes, and the multiple projects initiated during the Ebola outbreak in North West Africa in 2014 ...
Amelia Hunt, Doug Specht
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International Action Against Child Labour: Guide to monitoring and complaints procedures [PDF]
, 2002 This document is part of a digital collection provided by the Martin P. Catherwood Library, ILR School, Cornell University, pertaining to the effects of globalization on the workplace worldwide.
Anti-Slavery International
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Elaborating the Motivations and Attitudes Driving Interest in Voluntary Biodiversity Credits
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Global biodiversity loss has prompted the search for new sources of conservation finance, such as voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs). However, despite optimistic market projections, current uptake of VBCs is limited. Adopting an interpretive approach, we analyse 21 semistructured interviews with early market actors (buyers, sellers ...
Gamze Yakar‐Pritchard +5 more
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Journal of International Humanitarian ActionReligion has been central to human history and is still the foundation of many societies. In some countries, faith-based organisations are the largest providers of social services and were pioneers in the humanitarian aid sector.
Jakob Klas Öberg
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Foreign Aid, Democratisation and Civil Society in Africa: A Study of South Africa, Ghana and Uganda [PDF]
, 1997 The 1990s have seen increased interest on the part of Western governments in funding civil society in Africa in an attempt to promote the continent's democratisation process.
Julie Hearn
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article contributes to sustainability research by investigating the complex, geopolitically induced challenges faced by industrial supply chains under international sanctions. Using Iran's steel industry as a case, it examines sustainability barriers through the lens of stakeholder theory. A mixed methods approach was employed.
Seyed Hamed Moosavirad +2 more
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