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The Culture & Practice Convergence: Looking For Ways Towards Sustainability, Miguel Paolo Paredes
The Culture & Practice Convergence: Looking For Ways Towards Sustainability, Miguel Paolo Paredes
Center for Business Research and Development
Thirty years ago, the Earth Summit gathering in Rio de Janeiro held host to world leaders, setting a blueprint for a more secure future by balancing economic growth and ecological necessity. Created for member states to cooperate in response to worldwide development issues, the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) sought to address these challenges and achieved a global consensus on the priorities for a new development agenda (United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), Earth Summit, n.d.) As sustainability issues encompassed the whole of the planet, the summit provided a platform for member states to collaborate …
Gender Equality And Women Empowerment For Sustainable Development: The Challenge Of Unpaid Work, Jessica Jaye Ranieses
Gender Equality And Women Empowerment For Sustainable Development: The Challenge Of Unpaid Work, Jessica Jaye Ranieses
Center for Business Research and Development
This article focuses on women – a sector that has been disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to unpaid care work. Unpaid work refers to “all unpaid services provided within a household for its members, including care of persons and housework” (Elson, 2000, as cited by Xue & McMunn, 2021) and a phenomenon that women had already been bearing significantly even prior to the pandemic. With the COVID-19 pandemic where work has shifted remotely, women have now performed multiple roles more than ever. According to the United Nations (2020), among 38 nations, the amount of time spent by women …
Consumer Protection Of Persons With Disabilities Amidst The Covid-19, James Keith C. Heffron
Consumer Protection Of Persons With Disabilities Amidst The Covid-19, James Keith C. Heffron
Center for Business Research and Development
The Persons with Disabilities (PWD) sector was one of the most overlooked and affected sectors during the COVID-19 pandemic. As consumers, PWDs have suffered difficult challenges in the access of essential goods and services, including healthcare, and these challenges have been unduly aggravated because of the crisis. The article exposes and examines the negative impact of the crisis on the consumer rights and behavior of PWDs with a special focus on the novel barriers brought about by the pandemic on their right to access. The current pre-pandemic legislation is not adequate to protect PWDs from these novel barriers as there …
Boon Or Bane: Business And The Anti-Cybercrime Law, Atty. James Keith C. Heffron
Boon Or Bane: Business And The Anti-Cybercrime Law, Atty. James Keith C. Heffron
Center for Business Research and Development
“The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.” – Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google.
Stop, Look, And Listen! The Legality Of Standard Form Contracts, Atty. Edward Chico
Stop, Look, And Listen! The Legality Of Standard Form Contracts, Atty. Edward Chico
Center for Business Research and Development
The proliferation of standard form contracts in today’s market calls for a law that would regulate and in some cases prohibit outright unfair contract terms, which deleteriously affect the buying public.