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 MRF > General Forum > CSR > Background
This United Kingdom index screens companies according to criteria in the areas of environmental sustainability, social issues and stakeholder relations, and human rights.
GENERAL FORUM is managed by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Several key results from those surveyed include: 70% supported the need for business to consider the impacts of their decision on their employees, the community, and the country; and 80% said the government should publish social responsibility standards and require reporting against these to allow shareholders and customers to evaluate performance for themselves.
www.natural-resources.org /minerals/generalforum/csr/background.htm

  
 Mark Fish: Let former stars pick Bafana coach : Mail & Guardian Online
Doctor Khumalo, a popular creative midfielder in the Nations Cup-winning squad, was equally critical, saying Bafana never performed as a unit against Tunisia and lacked character.
Fish was a central defender when hosts South Africa beat Tunisia in the 1996 final just four years after the country returned to international football following three decades of racism-induced isolation.
He was reacting to a 2-0 defeat by Tunisia on Thursday which eliminated Bafana Bafana from the 2006 African Nations Cup in Egypt in the first round without securing a point or scoring a goal.
www.mg.co.za /articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__sport/&articleid=262502   (609 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited The Guardian The crying game
There is a wealth of anecdotal and research evidence which demonstrates a sharp divide between babies raised in traditional communities and in post-industrial societies.
Researchers in America, Britain and elsewhere are now considering the elements of childcare common to low-cry societies to see if any can be applied to post-industrialised nations - and in particular to solitary carers, who struggle alone and unsupported by the extended family network.
Infant crying expert Professor Ian St-James Roberts is heading a team from the Thomas Coram Research Unit in London to address the question of whether prolonged crying is a developmental or a social-cultural issue.
www.guardian.co.uk /g2/story/0,3604,1501394,00.html   (1678 words)

  
 U.S. Marines provide security as Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigates a grave site.
Elements of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit are deployed from ships of the USS Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group as an enabling force for KFOR.
KFOR will ultimately consist of over 50,000 troops from more than 24 contributing nations, including NATO member-states, Partnership for Peace nations and others.
U.S. Marines provide security as members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Forensics Team investigate a grave site in a village in Kosovo on July 1, 1999.
www.defenselink.mil /photos/Jul1999/990701-M-5696S-003.html   (1678 words)

  
 Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Since 1927, Scotland has been one of the four constituent nations (along with England, Northern Ireland and Wales) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The thistle, the country's national emblem - according to legend a Danish attacker stepped on one at night, so alerting the defenders of a Scottish castle, hence it is called the "guardian thistle"
Innovations such as a passing style of play, a team working as a unit, half-time and free-kicks were introduced by Queen's Park F.C., all of which were later incorporated and remain in the modern game.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scotland   (1678 words)

  
 The Guardian
The Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody investigated the use of "mechanical restraints" by this State in two prison deaths in 1983, and Commissioner O'Dea noted that the United Nations Standard Minimum Rule 33 required that: "chains and irons shall not be used as restraints" and "may be used only against escape during transfer.
This followed the tragic death of a prisoner who died in shackles while in the Intensive Care Unit at Royal Perth Hospital.
The Director of Prison Health Services proclaimed in the Coroner's Court that the Casuarina Prison Infirmary is "a pig sty".
www.zip.com.au /~cpa/garchve1/972wa.htm   (1678 words)

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