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Indeed, we are now at a critical point in what has become a global movement to stop irresponsible corporate practices from being viewed as business as usual.
Developed in close collaboration with the industry, it offers “detailed recommendations to help companies respect human rights and avoid contributing to conflict through their mineral purchasing decisions and practices.”
The underlying message is that ancient India had all the answers, and thus that traditional and indigenous beliefs and practices must be fundamentally superior to imported modern ideas and lifestyles.
Instead, throughout the world, central banks have focused on the systemically significant banks, the financial institutions whose excessive risk taking and abusive practices caused the 2008 crisis.
Meanwhile, at the national level, it is essential that biodiversity conservation is “mainstreamed,” becoming an integral part of government policy and sustainable management practices worldwide.
Britain’s National Health Service in Wales, for example, is experimenting with community practices similar to those used in Brazil.
Yet, except for Costa Rica’s foreign investment promotion agency, CINDE, modeled after the IDA-Ireland, none of Latin America’s FDI promotion agencies have succeeded in adopting best practices.
They are ideally positioned to make an impact locally, given their willingness to adopt positive environmental and governance practices and their ability to improve living conditions by creating permanent jobs.
This first generation of Moroccan feminists was guided by a key insight: the interactions of men and women were not dictated by religion, but by social practices that had often used religion as a means of reinforcement.
They challenged the disparities in legal treatment of women, broached new ideas concerning the role of women in Moroccan society, and questioned practices that had long been understood as Islamic.
The signs of cooperation have been clear: increasing use of Arabic, rather than French, discussions that incorporate real knowledge of Islamic scripture, and recognition that Islam remains distinct from traditional practices.
Efforts and initiatives to catalyze a more rapid move toward greener practices by companies, investors, and capital markets are multiplying, spearheaded partly by business leaders eager to profit from the transformation.
Treating foreign and domestic firms the same with respect to competitive practices would stop these abuses.
As a Muslim lawyer who practices in a Sharia court in Kano, Nigeria's second-largest city, the demonization of Islamic law by Christians and human rights activists in Europe and North America angers me.
But some pushback conceivably could be warranted if the advanced economies – which have already created an informal contact group of “China losers,” including representatives of the European Union, Japan, and the United States – are right that China has been engaging in unfair trading practices.
But, interestingly, few of those complaints are about China’s trading practices per se, at least in the narrow sense.
Complaints about unfair Chinese trade practices, therefore, are actually complaints about the mismatch between the slow pace of economic opening and the very fast pace of modernization.
Even on the meaning of human rights there was no universal agreement, with some states regarding them as a tool of Western neo-imperialism.Today, by contrast, the UN does more than any other single organization to promote and strengthen democratic institutions and practices around the world.
Viewed in this broader context, many of the paradigms, practices, and processes that are currently being used to manage communities’ water resources must change.
Multilateral cooperation provides venues to resolve differences peacefully; platforms to agree on common rules of the game; mechanisms to better manage international flows; and channels for exchanging ideas, experiences, and practices so that countries learn from each other.
Representatives of the United States accused the other G7 members of “unfair trade practices,” which they claim have disproportionately harmed the US economy and its workers.
In much the same way that cigarette companies shifted their focus to the developing world when regulators clamped down on their marketing practices in America, fast-food companies seem to be trying to capitalize on those portions of the global consumer base that have little exposure to health campaigns in their native languages.
But asking others to pay for the legacy of banks’ past irresponsible practices is hard to justify.
“The new presentation,” write Mikhail Danilovich and Robert Coalson, “is devoted not to the repressive forced-labor practices of the Stalin era but to the timber production at the plant and to its contribution to the Soviet victory in World War II.”
Mending Bangladesh’s Garment IndustryKUALA LUMPUR – Four years ago, the deadly collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh pulled back the curtain on the employment practices of the global apparel industry.
Imagine you own a patch of land and have made it valuable through careful farming practices – good seeds, irrigation, fertilizers, and bees to pollinate the crops.
These include McDonald's ending its popular "supersized" portions in the name of discouraging obesity, and businesses adopting less efficient, more "sustainable" practices.
The Shape of Sino-American ConflictCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – For most observers of the unfolding trade war between the United States and China, the casus belli is the convergence of China’s unfair trade practices with US President Donald Trump’s protectionist credo.
Meanwhile, US weakness has opened the door to Russia’s resumption of Cold War practices in the region.
The defects in Europe’s asylum legislation and the difference among its member states’ practices have been evident for some time.
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