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Coca-Cola's Global Workplace Rights Homepage,
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/workplace_rights.html

8
www.cokefacts.com/Colombia/facts_co_keyfacts.shtml

9
âThe Political Economy of Labor Reform in Colombia', Background paper prepared for the World Development Report 2005,
www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2005/01/31/000090341_20050131101310/Original/314340Echeverr14WDR050bkgd01public1.doc

10
Interview conducted by author

11
Labour Rights and Freedom of Association in Colombia
, Colombian Trade Union Federations, October 2007

12
I asked the Company what was the ratio of permanent to casual labour but they ignored my question completely. However, the figures Sinaltrainal give do reflect a nationwide trend in Colombia to put an increasingly large number of workers into casual or temporary employment

13
www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/businessbulletin/bb-06/bb-12-22f.htm

14
Get The Real Facts, The Coca-Cola Company website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

Chapter 5: The Days of the Great Coke Pledge

1
The Facts: Coca-Cola and Colombia, Coca-Cola website
www.cokefacts.com/Colombia/facts_co_colombia_fact_sheet.pdf

2
ibid

3
www.cci.com.tr/en/index.asp

4
Coke Facts: The Truth About The Coca-Cola Company Around the Globe, Coca-Cola website,
www.cokefacts.com/facts/facts_aw_keyfacts.shtml

5
lrights.igc.org/projects/corporate/coke/turkeycoke_complaint_part_1.pdf
page 10

6
lrights.igc.org/projects/corporate/coke/turkeycoke_complaint_part_1.pdf

7
Kurdish Human Rights Project

8
Coke Facts: The Truth About The Coca-Cola Company Around The Globe, Coca-Cola website,
www.cokefacts.com/facts/facts_aw_keyfacts.shtml

9
ibid

10
ibid

11
lrights.igc.org/projects/corporate/coke/turkeycoke_complaint_part_1.pdf
page 13

12
ibid

13
Coke Facts: The Truth About The Coca-Cola Company Around the Globe, Coca-Cola website,
www.cokefacts.com/facts/facts_aw_keyfacts.shtml

Chapter 6: May Contain Traces of Child Labour

1
Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

2
Coca-Cola website,
www.letsgettogether.co.uk/ListQuestionsOfTopic/TopicId=24/

3
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation, June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

4
Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

5
âEl Salvador Scarred by Child Labor',
Washington Post
, 10 June 2004

6
Children for Hire: The Perils of Child Labor in the United States
, Marvin J. Levine, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003

7
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

8
The Coca-Cola Company Response to the Human Rights Watch Report on Child Labor in El Salvador, 13 June 2005, Coca-Cola website,
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/presscenter/viewpointshrwreport.html

9
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation, June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

10
Email from The Coca-Cola Company to author

11
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation, June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

12
Coke Facts: Supplier Guiding Principles, Coca-Cola website,
www.cokefacts.com/AroundTheWorld/cit_aw_supplier.shtml

13
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

14
Get The Real Facts, Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

15
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation, June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

16
Get The Real facts, Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

17
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation, June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

18
Get The Real facts, Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

19
Email from The Coca-Cola Company to author

20
Get The Real facts, Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

21
ibid

22
Global Workplace Rights Policy, Coca-Cola website,
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/workplace_rights_policy.html

23
Coke Facts: Supplier Guiding Principles, Coca-Cola website,
www.cokefacts.com/AroundTheWorld/cit_aw_supplier.shtml

24
El Salvador Turning a Blind Eye, Hazardous Child Labor in El Salvador's Sugarcane Cultivation, June 2004,
hrw.org/reports/2004/elsalvador0604/elsalvador0604simple.pdf

25
Get The Real facts, Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/workplace/workplace.html

26
ibid

27
ibid

28
ibid

29
Email to author

Chapter 7: Dodge City

1
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship

2
Centre for Science and the Environment website,
www.cseindia.org/misc/cola-indepth/cola2006/cola-index.htm

3
âCoke, Pepsi Pay Himalayan Fines', BBC News Online, 17 September 2002,
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2263917.stm

4
Best Practices in Adult Video website,
bpav.org/bp.html

5
âWatch out, Sarge! It's environmentally friendly fire',
Sunday Times
, 17 September 2006,
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article641494.ece

6
BP 2006 Environmental Statement,
www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/downloads/V/verfied_site_reports/N_America/Whiting_2006.pdf

Chapter 8: Let Them Dig Wells

1
Our Economic Impact, The Coca-Cola Company website,
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/economic_impact.html

2
CIA Factbook: El Salvador,
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/es.html

3
Speech by Neville Isdell, Coca-Cola Annual Meeting 2008,
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/presscenter/viewpoints_isdell_annual_meeting_2008.html

4
ibid

5
FMLN - Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (
Frente Farabundo para la Liberation
)

6
Ashveille Global Report 2003,
www.theglobalreport.org/issues/212/environment.html

7
Get the Real Facts, The Coca-Cola Company,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk/environment/environment.html

8
www.thecoca-colacompany.com/citizenship/pdf/cwp_011608.pdf

India: A Prequel

1
âTo deny voting rights to Indian shareholders - Coke knocks at FIPB doors', 30 January 2003,
www.thehindubusinessline.com/2003/01/30/stories/2003013002590100.htm

2
Multilateral Investment Agreement in the WTO, Kavaljit Singh, July 2003,
www.wto.org/english/forums_e/ngo_e/multi_invest_agree_july03_e.pdf

3
To deny voting rights to Indian shareholders - Coke knocks at FIPB doors, The Hindu BusinessLine, 30 January 2003,
www.thehindubusinessline.com/2003/01/30/stories/2003013002590100.htm

4
âKerala's Plachimada Struggle',
Economic and Political Weekly
, 14 October 2006, C R Bijoy

5
Poison Vs Nutrition, Centre for Science and Environment,
www.cseindia.org/misc/cola-indepth/poison.pdf

6
Minister of Water Resources reply to Lok Sabha (lower House of Indian Parliament) starred question No.2 on 5 July 2004 as cited in Poison Vs Nutrition, Centre for Science and Environment,
www.cseindia.org/misc/cola-indepth/poison.pdf

7
www.coca-colaindia.com/water_management/approach-to-water.asp

8
âCoke may wreak havoc in Plachimada: KSSP',
The Hindu
9 February 2003,
www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/09/stories/2003020905340400.htm

9
Letter to Shri. V.K Ebrahim Kunju, The Minister for Industry in Kerala from the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, 28 November 2005

10
Face the Facts
Coca-Cola Update Transcript transmitted 2 January 2004,
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/yy_20040102.shtml

11
â
Face The Facts
investigates Coca-Cola plant in India', BBC Press Release, 24 July 2003,
www.bbc.co.uk/pressofficepressreleases/stories/2003/07_july/24/face_facts.shtml

12
ibid

13
ibid

14
Letter to Shri. V.K Ebrahim Kunju, The Minister for Industry in Kerala from the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, 28 November 2005

15
âCoca-Cola Don't Poison My Well',
Outlook
16 May 2005, cited in âKerala's Plachimada Struggle',
Economic and Political Weekly
, C R Bijoy, 14 October 2006

16
Letter to Shri. V.K Ebrahim Kunju, The Minister for Industry in Kerala from the Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, 28 November 2005

17
Email to author

18
Analysis of Pesticides in Soft Drinks, Centre for Science and Environment, 5 August 2003,
www.cseindia.org/misc/cola-indepth/cola2006/pdf/labreport2003.pdf

19
ibid

20
âHC orders govt to test Pepsi products',
The Tribune India,
11 August 2003,
www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030812/nation.htm#1

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âThe Street Fight',
Down to Earth
, 15 August 2006,
www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20060815&filename=news&sid=70&page=1&sec_id=9&p=1

22
Interview conducted by author

23
âJPC report upholds CSE findings',
Hindu Business Line
, 5 February 2004

24
One Indian crore is a unit of measurement equivalent to 10 million. So the soft drink industry turnover is Rs60,000 million (or US$1.4 billion)

25
Report of Joint Committee on Pesticide Residues in and Safety Standards for Soft Drinks, Fruit Juice and Other Beverages,
parliamentofindia.nic.in/ls/jpc/jpc-prsfb.htm

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www.cseindia.org/misc/cola-indepth/cola2006/cola_press2006.htm

Chapter 9: Kuriji

1
Coca-Cola website,
www.gettherealfacts.co.uk

2
Author interview with Professor Rathore, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur

3
âIndependent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India', TERI Report,
www.teriin.org/coke_files/FReport.pdf
, page 123

4
Email sent to the author

5
www.vpcomm.umich.edu/pa/key/coke_qa.html

6
âIndependent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India', TERI Report,
www.teriin.org/coke_files/FReport.pdf

7
ibid, p. 124

8
Letter to the University of Michigan from The Coca-Cola Company, 11 January 2008,
www.cokefacts.com/PressCenter/TERI_Michigan_Letter.pdf

9
Independent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India', TERI Report,
www.teriin.org/coke_files/FReport.pdf
, page 22

10
Coke Gets CSR Award Amidst Protests, Business Standard, 19 February 2008,
www.indiaresource.org/news/2008/1013.html

11
Deepak Jolly Conferred Communicator of the Year Award, Company News, 21 March 2006,
www.afaqs.com/news/company_news/Corporate/13108.html

Chapter 10: Gas

1
Coke Facts: The Truth About The Coca-Cola Company Around the Globe,
www.cokefacts.com/India/facts_in_keyfacts.shtml

2
Email from The Coca-Cola Company to author

3
Interview conducted by author

4
âIndependent, Third Party Assessment of Coca-Cola Facilities in India', TERI Report,
www.teriin.org/coke_files/FReport.pdf
, page 128

5
ibid, p. 128

6
ibid, p. 128

Chapter 11: The Fizz Man's Burden

1
Letter to the University of Michigan from The Coca-Cola Company, 11 January 2008,
www.cokefacts.com/PressCenter/TERI_Michigan_Letter.pdf

2
ibid

3
ibid

4
Email sent to author

5
ibid

6
Interview conducted by author

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