Sensitizing and informing employers and enterprises

As for the main tasks and responsibilities of enterprises

Mr. Toru Ueno, Principal Administrator, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Local Development (CFE), Small and Medium sized Enterprise (SME) and Entrepreneurship Division, OECD

Dispatch of work teams to contribute to the task of teaching heads of families, and especially women heads of families, how to establish, follow up and run small business enterprises, and to teach them about the best ways of developing such enterprises

C. Communication tools brochures, newsletters and other programme promotions

All indigenous groups in the Chaco were expelled from their traditional land by cattle ranchers or industrial enterprises.

are being transformed from traditional manufacturing industries.

Moreover, various follow up services provided in support of Empretecos, such as promotional videos and facilitation of study visits, served to generate the needed publicity, awareness, and business capabilities through learning.

Whose Corporate Social Responsibility?

(e) Insufficient support to women entrepreneurs, particularly in non traditional areas

With respect to the types of enterprises, one may distinguish between informal sector enterprises, essentially microenterprises, and enterprises in the formal sector, which include some microenterprises, SMEs and large firms.

One business participant noted that it was contrary to democratic principles to expect a company to enforce international human rights standards locally in this way.

(b) Except as specifically provided in the agreement between the applicant and the Enterprise, the Enterprise shall not by reason of its participation be otherwise obligated to provide funds or credits or issue guarantees or otherwise accept any financial liability whatsoever for, or on behalf of, the joint venture arrangement, nor shall the Enterprise be required to subscribe for additional participation so as to maintain its proportionate participation in the joint venture arrangement.

Mr. Khoo Khee Ming, Business Development Director, Sime Darby Plantations (Malaysia)

(c) The way in which local indigenous entrepreneurs and industries could prepare themselves for such a role

It would also provide a framework for the development of a national CSR policy and a methodology for the implementation of CSR principles by SMEs.

Non affiliated and small employers lag behind large employers and those affiliated to employers' organisations.

With the rise of the business corporation, large family firms have generally disappeared. But that does not mean that a corporation is the right entity to engage in altruism though its various stakeholders obviously can spend any portion of the income they earn from the corporation and other sources in altruistic ways.

Business often had to resort to traditional means of communication, such as mail or telex.

In the ensuing discussion, questions were raised regarding the precise definitions of general terms such as corporate responsibility , corporate social responsibility and positive corporate contribution , and regarding the notion of a corporate responsibility for development, as well as UNCTAD's mandate in this regard.

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Simply put, if a business had less influence to affect human rights, the responsibility of the business might be of a lesser degree.

Governments and corporations were equally to blame.

Companies throughout the information and communication technology sector have started to make transparency reports an industry standard. But more telecommunications companies and hardware manufacturers should join Internet companies and privacy rights advocates to build a broad reform coalition.

This legislation has precedence over any employment contract and applies to every employer whose enterprise employs 10 or more employees, including the government.

Trade has been defined to include any industry, business undertaking, occupation, profession or calling carried out, performed or exercised by an employer or worker in any branch of or any function or process in any trade.

Mr. Charles Ocici, Executive Director, EMPRETEC, Enterprise Uganda, Kampala

On the Centralized Registration Service Day set up by the administrations for industry and commerce of Hainan Province, some 300 enterprises got the business license.

Training courses were designed to meet the needs of small business owners, including borrowers from the Agency s revolving loan funds, potential entrepreneurs and women enterprise owners, who generally had few other opportunities for business or management training.

32. In most cases, an enterprise will remain primarily liable for the whole of the environmental liability in question such that, if the third party fails to pay for any reason, the entity would have to meet the full cost.

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The second focus area is aimed at facilitating the entry of SMEs into international markets and value chains through the promotion of export consortia and the promotion of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business partnerships.

This is particularly true of manufacturing firms, which are the main focus of this document.

Greater enterprise accountability and responsibility.

He identified three layers of business responsibility.

What are the responsibilities of business with regard to human rights?

What areas of business responsibility are in need of clarification?

(a) The responsibilities of business towards indigenous and local communities.

454. Statistics on the activities of small enterprises and microenterprises tend to underestimate the role of women as entrepreneurs, mainly because it tends to be assumed that family businesses are run by the head of the household.

9. In order to further develop the processes of integration, the Heads of State called for encouragement for the creation of consortia in the fields of industry, agriculture, and transport and communications.

Globalization may reinforce traditional relations of dominance between firms.

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The working group s mandate should be limited to RBPs by firms.

It is noted that of the total number of foreign women victims of domestic violence, approximately, 4 out of 10 come from the Balkans. The majority of women victims of domestic violence, (64 ) belong to the age group from 31 to 50 years.