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The Dole Food Company in the Philippines and PT Freeport Indonesia have formed partnerships with the US Department of State […]

The International Dalit Solidarity Network has published the Dalit Discrimination Check, a tool to guide companies in preventing discrimination and […]

A young businessman from Hyderabad in India who specializes in plastic bag recycling has become the Entrepreneur of the Year […]

A Philippines organization providing microfinance loans to unemployed young people and a programme in Pakistan that combats violence against women […]

Many more of India’s leading companies have signed up to disclose their carbon emissions and climate policies, a second round […]

Business in Nepal, particularly small enterprises, will need significant help to support inclusive recruitment, delegates decided at a recent roundtable […]

A website has been set up to help non-governmental organizations in Asia obtain corporate help for disaster relief efforts. The […]

Corporate Express Australia, the office supplies and services company, has been named Sustainable Company of the Year in the Australian […]

A call has been made for more debate about how company ownership structures should be changed to encourage responsible business […]

Two leading accountancy bodies have warned European companies they should not rest on their laurels when it comes to their […]

A coalition of 32 tourism trade organizations and companies has announced criteria to guide members on reviewing their social and […]

British companies have been offered a voluntary code of practice on employing migrant workers. The eight-page document comes from Business […]

Guidance for financial services institutions on what to include in annual sustainability reports has been finalized by the Global Reporting […]

Mike Scott talks to one of the founders of a new organization that intends to spread the word about sustainable […]

There’s little doubt that 2009 will be a tough year on many fronts. But how will it be for socially […]

The next 12 months are not likely to be easy for anyone. EP asked a selection of people in the […]

Try to think of who you are addressing and what they might want to know, advises Tom Rotherham During 2008 […]

The multinational companies Barclays and Nike have separately committed themselves to projects aimed at boosting the self-esteem and prospects of […]

Tata has been placed top of a new sustainability index based on the views of India’s opinion leaders. The index, […]

Signs that the global financial crisis is starting to affect jobs in the responsible business world emerged last month as […]

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have signed up to principles whereby they agree to offer better protection for online freedom of […]

Wal-Mart made the best progress on corporate responsibility issues in the retail industry last year, according the annual industry report […]

A building materials company has become the first business to adopt a new carbon labelling scheme for all products. Marshalls, […]

Unilever is selling its stake in a factory in an illegal Israeli settlement on the West Bank – but has […]

More than 20 alleged breaches of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines for multinational corporations are being […]

A $1500 billion (£1001bn) alliance of investors, all signatories to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, is asking 100 […]

Corporate responsibility has finally taken a firm hold in Russia, according to a new analysis. The study indicates that 90 […]

An international research unit will be set up to support the work of the United Nations Global Compact.   The […]

The world’s second largest private employer has signed an Ethical Employment Partnership with the biggest international grouping of trade unions. […]

Carlo Cici & Federica Ranghieri. Free download. Inter-American Development Bank. www.iadb.org Since wading into Latin America’s corporate responsibility arena some […]

An analysis of sustainability reporting in Brazil has suggested that companies there are among the top performers in emerging economies […]

The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is creating a global database of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment […]

The facilities management multinational Sodexo has adopted a group-wide human rights policy after an investors’ engagement campaign. The Paris-based company, […]

The huge oil group Chevron has been cleared by a US jury of complicity in violence that erupted on one […]

Afghanistan and Nepal will be included next year in the Adolescent Girls Initiative, a Nike-backed project aimed at promoting the […]

A rural planning design for a suburban village in Beijing has received the $100,000 (£67,900) top prize in the Asia […]

Intel and Hewlett-Packard, two of the world’s biggest information technology groups, are to tackle global warming and climate change through […]

A supply chain management website has made finding corporate sponsorship easier for non-governmental organizations that are working with victims of […]

Clear Voice, a workers’ confidential communication hotline on employees’ rights, which has just completed its first year of operations in […]

Adolescent Indian girls in a Mumbai slum and in three districts of rural Maharashtra will benefit from a partnership between […]

Alain Belda, chairman of the aluminium company Alcoa, has been given an environmental award by the Asia Society, the US […]

Indian companies are said in a report from BT, the international communications provider, to be taking positive steps towards sustainable […]

DHL, the international express and logistics company, is giving $650,000 (£441,000) to support the efforts of Unicef and the Indian […]

Body Shop has collaborated with the Brunei Darussalam Aids Council at a shopping mall in Gadong to raise awareness of […]

One of the world’s leading fund management companies has broken new ground by inserting an SRI clause into all its […]

A Crane, D Matten, L Spence (eds) Paperback. 544 pages. Routledge. £32.50. This collection of essays  drawn together under three […]

Two prominent corporate responsibility consultancies – Csrnetwork and Sd3 – are to merge on 1 January amid suggestions that a […]

The engineering and construction multinational Balfour Beatty reduced its accident frequency rate by 16 per cent last year. The latest […]

One of the world’s largest beer makers has promised to reduce its water consumption throughout its global operations. SABMiller has […]

Mike Scott talks to pioneering ethical investment advocate Peter Kinder about his belief that the current financial turbulence could teach […]

As many readers will already know, Alistair Townley, co-founder and publisher of Ethical Performance, died on 30 October of a […]

More than 350 tributes were sent to EP in the few days after its founder Alistair Townley’s death. Here, just […]

Institutional investors in Switzerland are to make a rare foray into shareholder activism next year in an effort to curb […]

Leading UK fund managers have shown a marked improvement in their performance and disclosure on SRI issues during the past […]

A group of more than 130 major global investors issued a joint statement last month warning politicians not to allow […]

Companies have been urged to think more about using existing communication channels to get corporate responsibility messages to employees, rather […]

Sometimes it’s wise to be careful what you wish for. Supporters of Barack Obama now have ‘change’ not only in […]

A trade body in China has endorsed an agreement that could improve working conditions in Chinese textile and garment factories […]

Companies that regularly take part in the UK’s annual Corporate Responsibility Index appear to show a better return for their […]

Ericsson has pledged to play a leading role in raising awareness of the millennium development goals (MDGs) in the worldwide […]

Companies should be offered a new way of labelling ‘ethical’ goods that benefit people in the developing world, a think […]

Dickens’s Christmas classic shows the way to be a successful CSR change agent, says John Turner At this time of […]

A government-backed standard has been created to show businesses how to consistently measure the carbon footprint of their products. PAS […]

The groceries and supermarkets group Kroger has been declared the most generous corporation in the US by Forbes magazine. The […]

A mobile phone company has taken the unusual step of producing an in-store newsletter on corporate responsibility aimed specifically at […]

A step towards developing international social auditor standards has been taken in the US, with the backing of the Department […]

Two US pioneers of responsible business – Joan Bavaria and Ed Burke – have died. Bavaria, who died aged 65 […]

Vodafone has regained the top spot in the annual Accountability rating of the world’s 100 largest corporations. It was previously […]

Guarded optimism has taken hold of US corporate responsibility proponents as they prepare for what they hope will be a […]

Seventeen large pharmaceuticals companies are to invest more in producing treatments for HIV/Aids in poor countries. Their decision follows a […]

The BBC has launched its first environment report with a warning that it ‘contains more anecdotes than measured impacts’. The […]

Barclays Bank has commissioned a market research company to ask its stakeholders what they think it should do to tackle […]