ToBI is an international coalition of NGOs and civil society organizations working to promote the concept and implementation of corporate accountability.

ToBI serves as a vehicle to bring together NGOs and citizens with diverse strategies and approaches but sharing a common goal of achieving the accountability of corporations to society.

Currently, ToBI members are focused primarily on the events and ongoing initatives in preparations for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

ToBI's initiatives include:

  • The ToBI Campaign for Corporate Accountability
  • The CSD Major Groups Review of Voluntary Initiatives
  • The ToBI Working Group on Advertising
  • The ToBI Working Group on Agri-Business

 

Recently...

11Feb02

Corporate accountability emerged at the WSSD PrepCom 2 as a cross-cutting theme, spurred in part by Friends of the Earth's weekend unveiling of their corporate accountability convention proposal. Many NGOs are interested in a campaign for corporate accountability, and the issue was highlighted by several other major groups during the dialogue sessions. It is likely that the ToBI network will serve as an active tool to bring together various NGOs around this issue. (Link via UN's Joburg Summit 2002 site)

28Nov01

Seminar: "Global Governance: International Law on Human Rights and the Liability of Multinational Corporations"
3 December - 4 December at Evangelic Academy, Bad Boll (near Stuttgart), Germany.
Organized by the EAD/Evangelic Academy Bad Boll, Germany and IRENE, The Netherlands.
For more info or registration, contact IRENE at: peterpennartz@irene-network.nl

Third World Network has extensive up-to-date news and reports on the WTO (World Trade Org.) meetings planned for this weekendin Qatar from the Global South's perspective.

6Nov01

Third World Network has extensive up-to-date news and reports on the WTO (World Trade Org.) meetings planned for this weekend in Qatar from the Global South's perspective.

Public Citizen has compiled a schedule of WTO-related world events in PDF format planned for this weekend around the world.

18Sept01
The Corporations and the United Nations page has been posted with links to views on this topic from civil society, the United Nations, and business and industry sectors.

21Aug01
Latest ToBI report: Corporate Accountability and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (produced for the Dundee seminar mentioned below). The presentation slides are also available online.

The ToBI website has a brand new look! Send any comments or problems you may have to webmaster@isforum.org.

16Aug01
The latest latest ToBI Update discusses ToBI's strategy for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

15Aug01
Upcoming seminar in Dundee, Ireland, UK, to be held 27-31 August 2001: "Corporations, Communities, Human Rights and Development", with a special focus on mineral, energy and natural resource development. Representing ToBI, Jeffrey Barber will be speaking on Corporate Accountability and Rio+10.

21May01
Looking for info on ToBI's involvment in the CSD Review of Voluntary Initiatives? Find it here.

16May01
A preliminary Multistakeholder Review of Voluntary Initiatives website has been posted for review, summarizing efforts to date and providing relevant information for interested parties and suggested guidelines for analysis. (ToBI would like to see this evolve into a robust stakeholder-driven site with content contributed from all major groups.) For more info on this Review, see the Voluntary Initiatives and Agreements page on the UN's website, or visit the Voluntary Initiatives section of our site.

 

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