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280 philippe le billon50. Workshop on Petroleum Revenue Management, Washington D.C.,October 23–24, 2002; see www.ifc.org/ogmc/petroleum.htm.51. UN Global Compact (2002); for recommendations, see 65.214.34.30/un/gc/unweb.nsf/content/zones_conflict.htm.52. See www.business-humanrights.org/UN-Sub-Commission.htm.53. Resolution S/2002/1146, pp. 31–32.54. Kathryn Gordon, OECD, personal communication, November 2002.55. Comments from ACCA, dated May 27, 2002. See www.globalreporting.org/WorkingGroups/Revisions/Members/PublicComments2002/ACCAFurtherComments.pdf.56. Publish What You Pay, press release, Global Witness, London, June 13,2002.57. For more details, see chapter 3, on the reporting of resource revenues.58. On brands and corporate social responsibility, see Klein (2000).“Greenwash” can be defined as “the phenomenon of socially and environmentallydestructive corporations attempting to preserve and expand their marketsby posing as friends of the environment and leaders in the struggle to eradicatepoverty”; see www.corpwatch.org.59. Tantalum-Nobium International Study Center, press release (n.d.) andpersonal communication from official, November 2002.60. Interview by the author with Kemet official, November 2002.61. Field investigation by the author, April 2002; Jackson (2003).62. The initial participants are British Petroleum, Chevron, Conoco,Freeport MacMoran, Rio Tinto, Shell, Texaco, Amnesty International, Fundfor Peace, Human Rights Watch, International Alert, Lawyers Committee forHuman Rights, Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, and the InternationalFederation of Chemical, Energy, Mine, and General Workers Unions.63. See www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/2931.htm.64. For an account of the campaign against rubber exploitation in theBelgium Congo, see Hochschild (1999).65. Monitoring was conducted by the Amsterdam-based Shipping ResearchBureau; see Hengeveld and Rodenburg (1995).66. See www.niza.nl/fataltransactions/.67. See www.globalwitness.org.68. Alex Yearsley, personal communication, 2002.69. For more details, see www.cites.org/eng/disc/how.shtml.70. See www.cites.org/eng/disc/what_is.shtml.71. The United Nations Agreement on the Implementation of the Provisionsof the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relatingto the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and HighlyMigratory Fish Stocks.72. International Alert, stock-taking workshop on the regulation of the privatesector in relation to armed conflicts, October 17, 2002; Sherman (2002).