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SRI and labour standards

Many pension funds, investment managers and other institutional investors apply engagement or screening techniques including on labour standards and human rights. In the UK it is estimated that the value of socially responsible investment (SRI) assets rose from £23 billion in 1997 to £225 billion in 2001, while in the USA SRI assets reached $2.29 trillion in 2005, up from $2.16 trillion in 2003.

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Corporate reporting

While reporting on labour issues is nowhere near as advanced as environmental reporting, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility reports usually include basic policies on employment and labour responsibility and can contain more detailed performance data. The biggest on-line source of CSR reports is available from the corporateregister

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  • Iraq: Trade Unions Banned in the Electricity Sector
    The ITUC strongly protest against the Ministerial Order, Issue 22 244, of the Iraqi Government. This Order clearly violates trade union rights. Accord...

  • Workers' rights in Taiwan
    A new report by the ITUC on core labour standards in Taiwan (known at the WTO as ?Chinese Taipei?), published to coincide with the World Trade Organis...
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