Alan S Gutterman
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Emergencies, whether caused by conflict or natural disaster (e.g., cyclones, tornados, hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, chemical spills or climate change-induced drought, famine, rainfall variation and shrinkage of water supplies), lead to catastrophic suffering, misery and humanitarian crises and invariably threaten rights to equal protection under international human rights and humanitarian law either...
2) Sustainability Reporting Frameworks, Standards, Instruments, and Regulations: A Guide for Sustainabl
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To know whether sustainability initiatives and their related commitments are improving the company's performance it is necessary to have in place procedures for "communicating with stakeholders about a firm's economic, environmental and social management and performance". These communications take the form of "sustainability reporting", which is the preparation and dissemination of disclosures pertaining to "nonfinancial information" including information...
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Once the ideas for new products have been identified and vetted and the product development process is largely completed, the full attention of the company should be focused on the activities directly related to promoting and selling the products and tending to the post-sale needs of customers with respect to service and support. In the initial stages of the company's development reliance is often placed on one or more of the members of the founding...
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This book discusses marketing and public relations activities for sustainable entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies, an area that is concerned with supporting the efforts of the sales group to promote the company's products to prospective customers, collecting and analyzing information regarding the requirements of customers and their perceptions of the company and its products, identifying ways in which the company and its products can deliver...
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The right to health has been provided for and/or recognized in most of the core international human rights treaties as well as other international and regional instruments and declarations, and is closely related to and dependent upon the realization of other human rights such as the rights to food, housing, work, education, human dignity, life, non-discrimination, equality, privacy and access to information. Older persons are entitled to all of...
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Discrimination based on race is a fundamental human rights issue. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights proclaims that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights and that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set out therein, without distinction of any kind as to race, color or national origin. Unfortunately, despite all the proclamations by the UN and other intergovernmental bodies, as well as specific laws...
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Caregiving includes activities undertaken by others to ensure that those with a significant ongoing loss of physical or mental capacity can maintain a level of ability to be and to do what they have reason to value and involves a variety of services provided in a number of places and by different groups of caregivers ranging from care in the home from unpaid family members and friends (mostly female), which is the most common form of long-term care;...
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The World Health Organization has reported that approximately 16% of the global population, over 1.3 billion people worldwide, had some form of disability, and that an additional 190 million people (3.8% of people over 15 years of age) experience serious difficulties in functioning normally on a daily basis. In the US, 61 million, or 26% of, adult Americans have some form of disability, and 2 in 5 adults over the age of 65 have a disability. It has...