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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Self-Regulation Reports
Our Associate General Editor, Paul Bater,* reports on the following developments with respect to self-regulation in the UK:
- The Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO) has published a report on its project “Social Auditing with Voluntary Organisations”. The report suggests that a social audit improves the quality of the relationship between a voluntary organisation and its stakeholders, helps to demonstrate the values and objectives of the organization, and can be integrated into the organisation’s existing management processes for measuring results. (“Charitable trust ?”, ACEVO, November 2000)
- A group of some 50 leading charities have set up a working party to improve current codes of conduct on street fundraising and to establish an independent body to monitor public fundraising activities. It is intended that the new body, which will include representatives of the Charity Commission, Home Office, local authorities, professional fundraisers and charities, will receive government funding initially but will subsequently be financed by a small levy on public collections. The body is seen as filling a gap in the existing charity law as a result of a failure to regulate public collections, Part III of the Charities Act 1993 never having been brought into force. (Third Sector, 30 November 2000)
* Paul Bater is an international tax attorney working with the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam. His specialty is the law affecting not-for-profit organizations. He can be reached at paulbater@eudoramail.com.