Two data points were collected: 2009 (as the latest available year) and baseline data (for the period 2005 2007, depending on the most recent data that each participating signatory could provide).
Signatories also include two global union federations, eight Bangladeshi garment workers' unions and union bodies, and four international labour rights organisations, participating as witness signatories.
Signatories are the EU Commission, participating member states and in each declaration one third state.
"According to the politics of free trade, trade occurs where there is difference," said Boillot, who noted the "complementarity" of signatories, and described the contrast between participating nations as "an asset".
A lifetime period of ineligibility as described in the Code prevents Mr. Armstrong from participating in any activity or competition organized by any signatory to the Code or any member of any signatory.
Under the terms of the deal, SEIU explicitly agreed to prohibit its members from participating in "communications that degrade or attack a signatory hospital or health system or the hospital industry as a whole includ[ing] communications raising concerns about hospital pricing and executive compensation in health care".
This time, signatories include prominent scholars from six of the nine participating governments, including well-known free trade supporter Professor Jagdish Bhagwati of Columbia University and former IMF officials Olivier Jeanne of Johns Hopkins University and Arvind Subramanian of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
As part of the protocol, signatories agree to cap greenhouse gas emissions generated by participating countries.
A full description of IHP+Results' methodology, including a discussion of observed limitations is available at http://www.ihpresults.net/how/methodology The following Figures show the Scorecard ratings for the IHP + signatories that participated in IHP+Results 2010 monitoring.
The signatories, who also include Newbery medallist Matt de la Peña and National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson, say that they will "have to consider" participating in conferences and festivals in North Carolina while the law is in place.
