Mohammed Lutfor Rahman, vice president of the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers & Exporters Association, said western companies had imposed codes of conduct and sent inspectors to enforce the rules, counting fire exits and auditing overtime records.
In "core" zones, the clicas ensure the support from local residents by imposing codes of conduct on them.
And we are suspicious about proposals to impose further codes of conduct on business.
After journalists reported that Kenyan soldiers looted the Westgate mall during the crisis, the government imposed a code of conduct penalizing journalists for such vague crimes as not "sticking to the issues".
Hill said physicians wanted to turn back the clock to early 2002 -- before hospital trustees unilaterally began to change physician bylaws, seized $250,000 in medical staff funds and imposed a code of conduct and conflict of interest policy opposed by many doctors.
It said, however, that "none of the partners involved intend — nor have the means — to impose the code of conduct on their constituencies".
Before imposing a code of conduct that was neither called for or welcomed by teachers, Mr Meyrick should look to root out potential racists from our profession.
Last month, his government presented the O.A.S. with recommendations to "improve" the special rapporteur, by reducing its financing, limiting the scope of its annual reports and imposing a code of conduct to restrict its independence.
The government's proposal reaches well beyond that issue, curbing the way Microsoft licenses its operating system, forcing it to disclose new Windows technology to potential competitors, and imposing a code of conduct on the way the company deals with PC makers and other software makers.
Some countries, such as Burundi, did not have the negotiation space to impose a code of conduct on NGOs (i.e. to set a salary scale).
