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EarthRights International claims to have found 69 Chinese multinational corporations involved in at least 90 hydropower, oil, natural gas and […]

An agreement to collaborate on promoting safety and emergency precautions in China’s chemical industry has been reached by the Beijing […]

Pepsi’s charitable arm has announced major new grants to provide access to safe water and sanitation for people in rural […]

The consequences for corporate responsibility of an impending recession remain unclear, but many in the field are taking an optimistic […]

A project has been introduced by two international organizations to improve conditions for more than 700,000 workers in the Vietnam […]

Online telephone company Skype has admitted that TOM Online, the majority owner of its Chinese venture TOM-Skype, has been monitoring […]

Australian consumers are said in a new report to be informed and inspired about climate change and to demand to […]

Cotton Traders is to stop sourcing clothes from Burma after the Burma Campaign UK organized a public boycott of the […]

Six mobile phone operators may tighten a set of voluntary measures to protect young people from inappropriate online material. The […]

Representatives of the Australian and New Zealand seafood industries and the two countries’ governments have met to work on new […]

Investment specialists often divide the socially responsible investment market in two – retail and institutional. But a third sector exists  […]

A wrangle over the definition of the phrase ‘corporate social responsibility’ on Wikipedia has finally been resolved. Contributors to the […]

Investors, company executives, government officials and academics are to meet in the US next month to establish an international fund […]

Bank Sarasin has put sustainability close to the heart of its investment approach. The Swiss private bank is using the […]

Multinationals are to be urged this month to help small- and medium-sized supplier companies produce their own non-financial reports. The […]

The exclusionary approach is once again popular among institutional investors, says Will Oulton The past year or so has seen […]

Yvon Chouinard, co-founder of the US-based outdoor clothing company Patagonia, has won this year’s Sustainability Leadership Award for his work […]

Australian superannuation funds could continue to be successful with carbon-efficient investment policies under a carbon emissions trading scheme, a new […]

Rio Tinto has expressed dismay at being dropped on ethical grounds from one of the Norwegian government’s pension funds. The […]

The Roche pharmaceuticals company has entered into four new technology transfers with manufacturers in Bangladesh and three African countries where […]

A dialysis clinic has been opened in India by Bridge of Life – DaVita Medical Missions, a non-profit organization set […]

Taiwan’s Labour Pension Fund is to adopt SRI principles. It intends to draw up investment policies to be introduced gradually […]

IBM and Volvo have become the latest Fortune 500 companies to set up trade unions in their Chinese operations. Fewer […]

Accountants should have compulsory modules about corporate responsibility in their professional training, one of the world’s most influential accountancy bodies […]

The first SRI fund concentrating on central and eastern European equities has been established by Limestone Investment Management, which has […]

CSR guidelines with 60 indices have been published for businesses by the local authority in the Wuxi municipality of Jiangsu, […]

The Chinese computer company Lenovo, which has joined The Climate Group, an international non-profit organization, has followed up by announcing […]

Twenty corporate responsibility discussion groups have been formed under the umbrella of the European Alliance for CSR since it started […]

Three investment management companies have lost contracts to manage £185million ($332m) of global equities because they are not signatories to […]

A leading SRI figure of the past two decades has left the sector to head a credit card loyalty scheme […]

The credit crunch has exposed one of the greatest pieces of corporate social irresponsibility ever. It has revealed flaws not […]

A network of US consumers is seeking to reward responsible companies with extra business. The fledgling online community, called Carrotmob, […]

(eds) A Crane, A McWilliams, D Matten, J Moon, D Siegel.Hardback. 590 pages. Oxford University Press. £80/$150. Practitioners beware: the […]

The US carpet design company Odegard is to further its policy of addressing child labour in Nepal’s carpet industry with […]

Representatives from Standard Chartered Bank and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAids) in Bangladesh have signed an agreement […]

A body has been formed to enable businesses to become directly involved in development and humanitarian operations in strife-torn emerging […]

The number of large companies disclosing information on their carbon emissions has stalled at last year’s level, reports the Carbon […]

Companies that have signed up to the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights have been given 11 key performance […]

A television documentary has been credited with prompting an eightfold increase in the value of assets managed along socially responsible […]

Anglo American is extending its HIV and Aids drugs programme in South Africa to family members of its 75,000 workers […]

Three more companies – Bosch, DuPont and Xerox – have released patents so as to encourage the development of new […]

Public attitudes are hardening against the pharmaceutical industry, a study by a Geneva-based agency suggests. Research by Covalence has found […]

Signs are emerging that the UK government is beginning to adopt a tougher stance on the behaviour of British companies […]

Consultancies that help companies produce a sustainability report and then provide assurance for it have been criticized for doing so. […]

A number of insurance companies have either rejected or challenged claims by a UK-based pressure group that they should close […]

Widescale apathy towards corporate social responsibility among large Asian companies is to be a major topic on the agenda at […]

Pharmaceutical companies are not happy, but a number of influential investors have expressed their support for the Access to Medicine […]

Defence giant BAE Systems has set out how it intends to implement the 23 recommendations made by an independent committee […]

Indonesia’s first village phone programme, providing affordable wireless telecommunications in rural communities, is being introduced through a co-operative effort between […]

Siemens has taken the unusual step of claiming damages from 11 senior executives implicated in the company’s bribery scandal. It […]

Part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that people have the right to a standard of living adequate […]

Abraham Lincoln once said: ‘give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four […]

For most businesses, implementing a robust ethics policy in Northern Europe is one thing, but applying the same rigours to […]

Most companies that take sustainability seriously strive to integrate responsible business principles right across their organization rather than allowing them […]

Cement is an energy intensive business that is responsible for five per cent of all man-made carbon dioxide emissions. It’s […]

A new strain of tuberculosis is set to break out across the world, and a multinational pharmaceutical company is desperate […]

Most requests for business-related bribes in China are cash demands, the first year of a bribe-monitoring project has revealed.   […]

Iraq is to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), which promotes disclosure of revenue payments by oil, gas and […]

Wal-Mart, the world’s biggest retailer, and its employees in Shenyang, north-east China, have signed a collective contract under which pay […]

Co-operative Financial Services (CFS) has won the overall Impact on Society award in this year’s Business in the Community (Bitc) […]

A leading Christian–based socially responsible investment house has signalled that it will begin engagement with Chinese companies on environmental, social […]

Sandra Waddock. Paperback. 320 pages. Greenleaf Publishing. £21.95. Who makes a difference? And how do they do it? This book […]

A group of UK parliamentarians is expected to publish the conclusions of an inquiry into corporate responsibility by the end […]

Signatories to the United Nations Global Compact may soon have to meet a minimum standard for the content of their […]

By all means compare company behaviour, but we must avoid over-simplified rankings, says Julia King. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), the company I […]

Too few companies consider the impact of business growth when developing programmes to reduce their carbon emissions. The warning is […]

The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment have passed the two-year mark. EP talks to executive director James Gifford about […]

The corporate responsibility profession has gained a foothold within one of the world’s largest employers, the UK’s National Health Service. […]

Ethical investors maintain lists of countries flouting human rights in order to avoid putting money into companies with operations there. […]

Shell has withdrawn a newspaper advertisement based around its sustainability credentials after the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) judged it […]

Several large companies operating in Zimbabwe have declined to sign a voluntary agreement drawn up by the UK government on […]

A two-year research project is to consider how multinationals can limit the exploitation of migrant workers in their supply chains. […]