Goodhart: Human Rights
Chapter 11
Amnesty International ‘Business and Human Rights’
www.amnesty.org/en/business-and-human-rights
This website offers country-specific information about how globalization affects human rights and what activists are doing to affect this relationship.
Atlas of Global Inequality
http://ucatlas.ucsc.edu/
A rich source of resources and tools to enable exploration of issues related to economic globalization.
IFIwatchnet
www.ifiwatchnet.org
London-based NGO which produces a digest of activities of the IMF and World Bank, with critical views on such International Financial Institutions.
Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project
www.humanrightsdata.org
The Cingranelli-Richards (CIRI) Human Rights Data Project provides standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 15 internationally recognized human rights for 195 countries, annually from 1981 to the present.
Commanding Heights: Battle for the World Economy
www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/
This website is designed to promote better understanding of globalization, world trade, and economic development, including the forces, values, events, and ideas that have shaped the present global economic system.
Global Compact
www.unglobalcompact.org
The UN Global Compact is a strategic policy initiative for businesses that are committed to aligning their operations and strategies with ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption. By doing so, business, as a primary agent driving globalization, can help ensure that markets, commerce, technology, and finance advance in ways that benefit economies and societies everywhere.
Global Policy Forum
www.globalpolicy.org
International network of research in global economic governance set up by Nobel Prize in Economics recipient Joseph Stiglitz
Human Rights Watch: Business
www.hrw.org/en/category/topic/business
This website offers in-depth reports and news updates about how the global economy affects respect for human rights.
International Chamber of Commerce
www.iccwbo.org
Grouping thousands of member companies and associations from over 130 countries, the ICC is a strong business-sector proponent of market-led economic globalization.
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)
www2.ohchr.org/english/issues/globalization/business/index.htm
The OHCHR’s section on “Globalization – Business and Human Rights” offers information, original documents, and learning tools about how multinational companies interface with states regarding human rights.
Oneworld
www.oneworld.org
A gateway to most of the active international NGOs. It can be used both to learn about particular organizations and to explore specific controversies about human rights and globalization issues.
Peterson Institute for International Economics
www.iie.com
This Washington DC-based think thank focuses on international economics with a free-trade agenda.
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