The International Journal
of Not-for-Profit Law
Volume 4, Issue 1, September 2001
A publication of the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
Corporate Philanthropy and Social Responsibility in Latin America
La Filantropia Empresarial: Un Deber Moral, Social y Legal
por Antonio L. Itriago Machado y Miguel Angel Itriago Machado
Regional:
Conference Report on the "Simposio de Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en Las Américas"
Brazil:
Corporate Social Responsibility Conference
Chile:
Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility
Chile:
New Web Site to Encourage Social Responsibility
Articles
Trends in Self-Regulation and Transparency of Non-Profit Organization in the U.S.
By Robert O. Bothwell
ICNL'S Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe: One Year Later
By Radost Toftisova
An Overview of Issues in Charity Litigation in Malaysia 2001
By Mary George
Charity, Politics and the Human Rights Act 1998: Chasing a Red Herring?
By Graham Moffat
Case Notes
Asia Pacific:
Australia
Central and Eastern Europe:
Hungary
Latin America:
The Bahamas
Middle East and North Africa:
Egypt
North America:
The United States
Western Europe:
The Netherlands | Switzerland | Turkey
Country Reports
Asia Pacific:
Regional | Australia | Cambodia | East Timor | Indonesia | Malaysia | New Zealand
Central and Eastern Europe:
Regional | Albania | Croatia | Hungary | Romania
Latin America and the Caribbean:
Regional | Argentina | Bermuda | Chile | Guatemala | Saint Lucia
Middle East and North Africa:
Egypt | Iran | Israel
Newly Independent States:
Armenia | Kazakhstan | Kyrgyzstan | Moldova | Russia | Tajikistan | Ukraine
North America:
Canada
South Asia:
India
Sub-Saharan Africa:
Gambia | South Africa | Tanzania | Uganda
Western Europe:
Austria | Ireland | Scotland | Turkey | the United Kingdom
International:
The London School of Economics Conference | The United Nations Global Compact
Self-Regulation Reports
The Humanitarian Accountability Project
Spain:
New Publication on Transparency and Accountability
Tanzania:
Tazania's First National NGO Forum Disucsses a Draft Code of Conduct
The United Kingdom:
Reports on Developments with Respect to Self-Regulation in the UK
Reviews
Charity Law Matters
By Ronan Cormacain, Kerry O'Halloran, Arthur Williamson
Reviewed by Karla Simon
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Special Feature: Corporate Philanthropy and Social Responsibility in Latin America
Brazil: Corporate Social Responsibility Conference*
On June 5-8, 2001, an international conference on corporate social responsibility took place in São Paulo Brazil, under the sponsorship of the Ethos Institute. The Institute, which was formed in 1998 under the leadership of Oded Grajew, has 422 members, including such large international corporations as Volkswagen and Philips, sponsored two previous conferences on the same topic in 1999 and 2000. This year’s conference included a speech by Simon Zadek of the British Institute on Social and Ethical Accountability (www.accountability.org.uk), who discussed ways of measuring effectiveness of social responsibility projects. One of the working groups reported on the issue of workplace volunteerism and reported that 5.7 percent of Nestle Brazil’s workers participate in a program to promote healthy lifestyles. In addition, IBM has developed a “virtual volunteer” project with the University of São Paulo. For further information on this year’s conference, please go to the Ethos website at www.ethos.org.br.
* We are grateful to Christiane Biedermann, a member of the H-Dritter Sektor network in which ICNL participates, and who provided some of the information in this report. Ms. Biedermann is working on an multi-national effort to build volunteer programs and she is based in Brazil.