Information on the Need for Global Rules
I. Global Rules: General
Breaking the Silence among Economists,
4/25/2000
Some Radical Ideas of a Leading Economist,
4/3/2000
A Lesson from the WTO Flop at Seattle, 12/20/99
Bury the World Trade Organization? No, But--,
11/10/99
Coming Soon: Global Sullivan Principles for Corporations,
10/8/99
Guilt, Shame, and Paper Tigers: an IMF Dialogue,
10/5/99
Globalization and Its Discontents, 7/29/99
More on the U.S.'s Seamy Labor Record,
7/29/99
The Public's Right to Know about the WTO, 6/25/99
Getting Ready for a Big WTO Meeting in Seattle,
5/7/99
Making Sense Out of Globalization's Gyrations (4 articles), 1/8/99
A Scary 'Lesson from the Brink' for 1999,
12/14/98
Respecting Human Rights as the Basis of Peace,
12/24/98
IMF: Getting in Touch With the Real World,
11/24/98
U.S. Bank Rushes to the Rescue of Reckless Speculators,
10/1/98
Globalization on Trial As Never Before,
10/1/98
A Malaysian's Advice on New Global Architecture,
10/22/98
U.S. Leadership on Global Rules: One Example,
9/8/98
Demonizing Sanctions (Everyone Else's), 8/7/98
Fake Figures + Faulty Assumptions = Historic
Failure in Indonesia, 7/22/98
'Universal' Worker Rights Set for 174
Nations, 7/2/98
'A Major Shift in U.S. Approach to Global
Economics'?--Hopefully,' 6/1/98
Searching for Better Global Ways, 4/6/98
Why Globalization Badly Needs Remodeling,
2/9/98
They're NOT Getting the Fundamentals Right,
1/12/98
Diagnosing Global Economy's Health, 12/4/97
A Radically New Approach to Globalization,
11/20/97
II. Global Rules: Business, Employers, and Finance
Cards Stacked Against Workers: New Study, 9/1/00
Challenging the 'Divine Right of Capital,'
12/20/99
A Hunt for Corporate Social Responsibility,
12/20/99
Dollars for Dictators--Billions Now, and
More to Come, 11/19/99
Watch for This Myth About Trade/Labor Linkage,
10/8/99
A Business Report on Sales of Laogai Industries,
10/8/99
Open Letter to Nike's CEO, Phil Knight, 9/23/99
U.S. Business Boosts International Labor Organization,
9/6/99
Multinational CEO: Human Rights Is Our Business,
9/6/99
A Hong Kong Critique of Corporate Codes of Conduct,
8/9/99
The Global Power of Intra-Firm Trade,
8/9/99
How Management Coercion Takes Its Toll in
U.S. Workplaces, 7/12/99
How to Jump-Start Worker Rights Now Stalled
in the WTO, 6/25/99
New Code of Conduct Meant Especially for China,
6/2/99
240 Million Votes Favoring Global Code of
Conducts for GE, 5/21/99
A Hot Issue That Bears Watching in 1999,
12/14/98
Responsible Investing? It's Not an Oxymoron,
9/8/98
The Drive for Global Rules to Protect
Investors, 2/23/98
Cutting Down on International Bribery: New
Rules, 12/4/97
Advice on Global Rules from a Billionaire--George
Soros, 9/29/97
Need for Rules in Telecom Industry,
9/29/97
III. Global Rules: Workers
Cards Stacked Against Workers: New Study, 9/1/00
Sorting Out the Villainies on Worker Rights
and Trade, 12/20/99
The New York Times Stands Uncorrected on Worker
Rights, 12/1/99
Many a Row to Hoe Beyond the WTO, 12/1/99
Workers of the World, Globalize!, 11/10/99
Watch for This Myth About Trade/Labor Linkage,
10/8/99
Mum's the World on Unions in Honeywell Code,
10/8/99
Watch for This Myth about Trade/Labor Linkage,
10/8/99
Students Press Demand for 'Sunshine' on Sweatshops,
10/5/99
U.S. Business Boosts International Labor Organization,
9/23/99
Dita Sari: She Refused To Be Beaten into Submission,
8/9/99
Nailing Trade-Related Worker Rights Violations
in Bangladesh, 8/9/99
Opening a Nation-Wide Dialogue on Worker Rights,
7/29/99
Struggling for Openness in World Trade Organization,
7/29/99
New Code of Conduct Meant Especially for China,
6/2/99
Getting Ready for a Big WTO Meeting in Seattle,
5/7/99
Why Worker Rights Are Human Rights, 12/14/98
This Industry Needs a Sheriff, Not a Figurehead,
11/24/98
Resistance to Treating People as Commodities,
11/12/98
Reebok Executive on Why Worker Rights
Matter, 11/12/98
IMF At Long Last Recognizes Labor Standards,
10/22/98
The 'Kid Sister Test' for Sexual Harassment,
9/21/98
'Stop Worker Rights Abuses by U.S. Firms': Plea
from Hong Kong, 9/8/98
Demonizing Sanctions (Everyone Else's), 8/7/98
China, Worker Rights, and the WTO, 8/7/98
Challenging NAFTA as Unconstitutional
and Disastrous to Workers, 8/7/98
'Universal' Worker Rights Set for 174
Nations, 7/2/98
'A Major Shift in U.S. Approach to Global
Economics'?--Hopefully, 6/1/98
Let's Call It What It Is--Discrimination,
1/12/98
Globalization Betraying Millions of Workers,
12/19/97
British Government Blesses 'Core Labor Standards,'
12/19/97
Right to Organize Is an Economic Right
Too, 11/3/97
A Wake-Up Call to Trade Negotiators,
9/15/97
The Plot to Box in the ILO--and Workers
Too, 9/15/97
Coming: the People Vs. the WTO, 9/8/97
Put Worker Rights on U.S. Fast Track,
8/25/97
Economist Endorses Global Labor Standards,
8/11/97
Don't Ignore Worker Rights: Harvard Economist,
6/11/97
Globalization's Ills: An Economist's Diagnosis,
5/14/97
World Trade and Worker Rights: Still a Pressing
Issue, 12/18/96
Free Love and Free Trade, 12/18/96
Silence About World Trade Conclave in Singapore,
11/9/98
An International Agenda to Clean Up an International
Scandal, 6/22/96
Sexual Harassment at Workplace Needs Global
Action, 4/l1/96
Crisis in International Labor Organization
over Worker Rights, 3/23/96
Articles by HRFW Editor
The Emerging Global Solidarity Movement,
America, 10/24/98
Exploring a New Frontier, China Rights Forum,
summer/98
Pirates on the Loose, Commonweal, 5/5/95
Time to End Discrimination in Trade Policies,
Freedom Review, 9/94
Sources on the Web
International Labor Organization (a UN agency) at http://www.ilo.org
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions at http://www.icftu.org
Trade Union Advisory Committee of OECD at http://www.tuac.org
AFL-CIO at http://www.aflcio.org
Asia Monitor Resource Center at http://is7.pacific.net.hk/~amrc/
Freedom to Care: Promoting Ethics at Work at http://members.aol.com/FreeCare/page19.htm
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights at http://www.lchr.org