Business & human rights: Weekly Update - August 1, 2007

From the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre:

Weekly Update: Business & Human Rights Resource Centre - 1 August 2007

CLICK THIS LINK FOR ALL TOP STORIES added past 7 days /
Principales noticias / Articles de premier plan:
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Topstories?date=2007/08/01

The top stories include / Las noticias incluyen / Les articles
incluent:

* Report prepared for UN Special Representative John Ruggie on state
responsibilities to regulate corporate activities under Convention on
Rights of the Child
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/928833

* Mozambique: Security guards at Mafambisse sugar plantation accused of
killing striking worker
- Tongaat Hulett's response
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/562295

* India: World Bank issues report on corporate response to HIV/AIDS
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/155604

* USA: Jury finds Drummond not liable for complicity in murders of
union leaders in Colombia - plaintiffs plan to appeal
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/700787

* Ecuador: Critics of Ascendant Copper project face death threats,
Amnesty warns
- article includes company's response
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/289499

* Japan: Lawsuit says immigrant workers in "training programme" faced
sweatshop conditions at TMC, which supplies Toyota, Nissan -- also
refers to Honda
- article includes company responses
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/897397

* USA: Human Rights Campaign report "shows major increase in basic
workplace protections for gay, transgender employees" - includes list of
policies at Fortune 500 companies
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/217350

* Israel: 2007 MAALA index ranks 53 companies for social
responsibility, including workplace rights, environment
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/505764

* CSR Asia: "China's environmental degradation creating social
time-bomb" - refers to health effects, protests against factories
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/115526

* USA: Nike settles class action racial discrimination lawsuit for $7.6
million
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/912974

* India: ICFAI Business School case study on controversy over pesticide
residues in Coca Cola & Pepsi drinks
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/725749

* Mattel helps ensure decent working conditions & product safety by
owning toy factories in China, says NY Times article
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/267405

* Español: Jurado de EE.UU. declara inocente a Drummond en cargos de
complicidad con asesinatos de sindicalistas en Colombia
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/527595

* Español: Campaña Ropa Limpia verificará que Inditex cumpla su nuevo
código de conducta sobre condiciones laborales
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/314548

* Español: Ecuador: Amnistía Internacional dice que opositores a
proyecto minero de Ascendant Copper sufren amenazas de muerte
- artículo (en inglés) incluye respuesta de la empresa
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/403293

* Français : Enquête à Paris contre dirigeants de Trafigura à la suite
du déversement de produits toxiques en Côte d'Ivoire
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/933560

* Français : Rwanda : Premier pays à déroger dans le cadre de l'OMC aux
brevets des médicaments contre le sida pour importer des génériques
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Links/Repository/373545