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The UN Global Compact has taken its toughest action yet by striking off 394 companies that have failed to provide […]

Coca-Cola is claiming vindication in its battle with campaigners over its role in water scarcities near bottling plants in India. […]

Institutional investors are to formally assess pharmaceuticals companies on the extent to which they improve access to medicines worldwide. The […]

HSBC and ABN Amro are ahead of their peers in responding to climate change, according to a survey of 40 […]

India has become the latest emerging market to have a dedicated index of companies that demonstrate superior social and environmental […]

Several small Chilean companies have come together to publish a sustainability report in which each in turn outlines its social […]

An alumni group is to be started this month for executives who have completed a new training course on how […]

W Visser, D Matten, M Pohl & N Tolhurst. Hardback. 539 pages. Wiley. £55/$110 It’s a sign of the coming […]

Tesco has asked its suppliers to stop sourcing cotton from Uzbekistan over concerns about state-sponsored child labour. The supermarket chain […]

Patents owned by four multinationals have been put into the public domain as part of what the companies claim is […]

Examples of emerging market businesses that have gained a commercial advantage by taking account of their social and environmental impacts […]

Civil and political unrest in Kenya has led to the suspension of some social auditing programmes in the country until […]

Policymakers and business associations have been urged to avoid the use of politicians or executives from large companies to promote […]

The United Nations high commissioner for human rights has warned that it is unrealistic to think the UN will produce […]

Two of Britain’s biggest corporate responsibility consultancies have merged to create a new company called Corporate Citizenship. The new business […]

San Francisco has had to water down a local anti-sweatshop procurement law because no company has been able to comply […]

Adidas has become the latest major clothing retailer to disclose the names of all its supplier factories. The German footwear […]

An independent body has been formed to curb child labour in the West African cocoa sector. The Cocoa Verification Board, […]

Forty companies have been listed in China’s first corporate responsibility index, which focuses mainly on businesses in the environment field. […]

Social innovation will bring CSR into mainstream corporate culture in Asia this year, Jude Mannion, chief executive of Robin Hood […]

Five Asian companies, all from India, have been shortlisted for the inaugural Global Reporting Initiative’s GRI Readers’ Choice Awards. They […]

Greater concentration on sustainability reporting and better co-ordination of government corporate responsibility projects are the two areas in which Australia’s […]

Share prices in companies that practise good CSR are reported to have outstripped the record-breaking run on the Kuala Lumpur […]

Good practice in Bangladesh’s ready-made garment factories could stop much of the frequent labour unrest in the country, the British […]

More than 40 Sri Lankan companies have signed a code of conduct to combat sexual harassment at work. Sexual harassment […]

Renewed attempts are about to be made by the Indian government to eliminate child labour, which is deterring some countries […]

The VicSuper superannuation fund has been named Sustainable Super Fund of the Year in the Australian Sustainability Awards. The fund […]

The Utthan Centre for Sustainable Development and Poverty Alleviation in northern India has been awarded the 2007 $1million (£503,000) Alcan […]

The news that the Olympic Delivery Authority’s Business Network will help companies across the UK compete for London 2012 business […]

Telstra, the Australian telecoms company, gave A$18.8million ($16.5m, £8.4m) in 2006-07 to enable Australians to live and work in their […]

The gender imbalance at board level is weakening corporate leadership, argues Alison Maitland A sense of crisis again surrounds business […]

The chief lobbying organization for large businesses in the UK has for the first time pledged itself unequivocally to playing […]

A wildlife conservation bank is to be set up in Malaysia’s Malua Forest Reserve by New Forests Pty, a forestry […]

Chinese companies are making an effort to respond to allegations that they are violating human rights, according to the East […]

Wal-Mart has fulfilled one of its corporate responsibility pledges by producing its first sustainability report. However, it said it does […]

With some social networking websites becoming more influential than traditional media, how can companies respond when their reputations are attacked […]

A. Crane & D. Matten. Paperback. 566 pages. Oxford University Press. £29.99 If the first edition of this authoritative Crane […]

Preferential interest rates are being offered by a Japanese bank to customers who can show they are reducing the carbon […]

A long track record of assessing companies on sustainability criteria has enabled Swiss bank ZKB to win new institutional business, […]

The number of companies filing non-financial performance data through the UK’s online Corporate Responsibility Exchange (CRE) has fallen since it […]

ABN Amro India has produced its first sustainability report, making it the first institution in the Indian financial sector to […]

Institutional investors are opposing moves in Germany that would curb shareholder activism. A proposed law, being considered by the Bundestag, […]

Difficulties have emerged with the drafting of background regulations for a new law in Indonesia that will require companies to […]

A campaign has been started in Pakistan to create an awareness of the social responsibilities of oil and gas companies […]

A project to develop the capacity of African governments to form partnerships with business on sustainable development has been announced […]

An American initiative that encourages MBA students to see themselves as protagonists for corporate social responsibility has set up a […]

The social and environmental performance of companies that produce luxury brands has been highlighted in a new ranking that suggests […]

Anglo American, the world’s third largest mining company, has established a free HIV testing and counselling programme for its London […]

Health and safety in China’s tea industry were the themes of the country’s first seminar run by the Ethical Tea […]

In a further sign that businesses are increasingly pooling their efforts on ethical supply chain monitoring, more than a dozen […]

High-risk European suppliers to Ford are just as likely to violate the company’s code of practice on working conditions as […]

BT has won the top accolade at the UK Awards for Sustainability Reporting. Among the reasons for the telecoms company’s […]

Dole Thailand, part of the huge Dole Food Company, the worldwide producer of fresh fruit, vegetables and cut flowers, has […]

Large unlisted companies owned by private equity firms in the UK will soon be expected to produce annual business reviews […]

When the countries of the world agreed ambitious targets for combating extreme poverty, hunger and disease at the UN Millennium […]

More than 100 companies have joined a new network that promotes sustainable travel. Members of the National Business Travel Network, […]

A Bill has been introduced in the UK parliament that will make it easier for banks and building societies to […]

The World Bank’s private sector arm has commissioned what it says will be the first comprehensive review of the state […]

Work will start soon on specific indicators to improve the quality of information in food companies’ sustainability reports. The indicators […]

A Malaysian company and a businessman have been commended at the first CSR Ambassadorship Certification Programme presentation of the Ansted […]

Nineteen British ’boutique’ consultancies have joined forces to market their corporate social responsibility services. The firms, none of which has […]

All state-owned companies in Sweden will be required to produce annual sustainability reports from 31 March 2009. In the first […]

Prominent companies in the developed world are now falling foul of the United Nations Global Compact’s tougher demands on signatories. […]

The development of an ISO social responsibility standard has fallen further behind schedule after a meeting in Austria decided that […]

Corporate community investment programmes are becoming more effective because companies are now listening to the people who are intended to […]

Some of the world’s largest telecoms and information technology companies have begun sharing information on the results of their ethical […]

Seven principles of responsible practice for companies in the developing area of nanotechnology are being finalized. The Responsible NanoCode has […]

A corporate responsibility kitemark for companies in Ireland will be produced next year. The ‘CR standard’ will be awarded to […]

Recently announced delays to the implementation of the Companies Act in the UK will not alter the timetable for listed […]

The Australian Ethical Investment Association, the Sydney-based industry body for SRI professionals in Australia and New Zealand, has been renamed […]

The world’s third largest mining company has urged the United Nations to bring together companies, governments and civil society for […]

Businesses in central and eastern European countries that have recently joined or applied to join the European Union generally practise […]