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Corporate responsibility now has its own dedicated television channel. Internet-based CSR.TV has been established in the UK as an offshoot […]

Loans for poor entrepreneurs in 15 countries, including China, India, Indonesia and the Philippines, are to be provided from a […]

Forty employees of the US airline Delta have given time and funds in association with the non-governmental organization Habitat for […]

Arriving at a socially responsible position is what matters, not how we get there, says Gerry Hagelberg I don’t beat […]

Hard copy, 24 pages. Or online at www.bhpbilliton.com Taking account of BHP Billiton’s impacts across a huge range of operations […]

Socially responsible investors around the world breathed a sigh of relief late last month when the US Securities and Exchange […]

The lack of research into the sustainability performance of companies with a market capitalization below €10billion has created an opportunity […]

Rapidly increasing interest in responsible business practice in America has prompted two UK-based specialist consultancies to establish operations across the […]

Last month, socially responsible investors in the US relaxed in the knowledge that the Securities and Exchange Commission was not, […]

The number of elective courses with social and environmental content at business schools has increased by a fifth in two […]

CSR organizations are attempting to turn the current fashion for social networking websites to their commercial advantage. At least four […]

The founders of a new United Nations Global Compact network in Vietnam have pledged to make increased corporate transparency one […]

New investment in Burma’s oil and gas fields should be banned by the United Nations Security Council and company payments […]

Information technology giant IBM is to help microfinance institutions better serve poor communities by improving the software they use. IBM […]

The Norwegian government pension fund has decided to disinvest from four Indian subsidiaries of a mining company over concerns about […]

Commercial investors can achieve greater returns on their property investments by considering and acting on social and environmental issues than […]

One of the biggest barriers to the spread of corporate social responsibility in the US is the lack of openness […]

What would you wish for in the corporate responsibility field in 2008? EP asked some of its subscribers for their […]

The SRI research provider KLD has introduced an Iran Compliance Service to guide insitutional investors and money managers whose clients […]

Three-quarters of the largest UK fund managers fail to disclose publicly any SRI policies, even though many have them. A […]

Eurostar has become only the second company to be chosen as an official partner of Friends of the Earth. FoE, […]

Twelve Chinese businesses out of 30 accused of pollution this year have had loans blocked or withdrawn by the state […]

Puma has taken the unusual step of asking a journalist to join some of its ethical supply chain inspections and […]

Three Asia Pacific representatives have been appointed to the Global Reporting Initiative’s Stakeholder Council. Aditi Haldar, of the Confederation of […]

The US government has made a rare direct foray into the world of corporate responsibility by providing $2million (£960,000) to […]

Sport may soon become the new hot topic in corporate responsibility, thanks to an initiative between the international bank Standard […]

Businesses and civil society bodies have formed the Bangladesh Partnership Forum to promote awareness of the value of sustainable development […]

A Spanish FTSE4Good index is to begin operating in the first quarter of next year. FTSE4Good Ibex will be administered […]

Gap, the US clothes retailer, is reducing by half the orders it places with a vendor whose sub-contractor used children […]

Many of the less developed economies in the Asia Pacific region need global support to plug the biggest gaps, even […]

The Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility has decided to practise what it preaches by releasing its first sustainability report. […]

An industrialist who joined the Indian company ITC from college and became its chairman and chief executive has won the […]

A Global Compact Network has been set up to promote ethical business standards and practice in Korea. The new group […]

Seven large companies have been said in a new study to be doing too little to protect indigenous peoples’ rights. […]

The China Supply Chain Council, a community of 20,000 business professionals, has kicked off a new season of formal discussions […]

Japanese companies perform strongly on environmental issues but need to improve in other areas to match European achievements, says a […]

Westpac has won a new Australian award for employers that encourage their staff to volunteer. The bank has taken the […]

A study of the Australian garment industry, in which outworkers are used extensively, has shown that employers have been slow […]

The Vodafone Group is to set up the Vodafone India Foundation with an initial injection of $10million (£4.85m) to offer […]

The third edition of the Ethical Performance Professional Services Directory will be published in January 2008, featuring more than 600 […]

A Middle East Centre for Sustainable Development has been established to encourage socially responsible business development in Dubai and other […]

A leading figure at Amnesty International has suggested that multinationals are being asked to take on too much responsibility for […]

The head of one of the world’s most influential pressure groups has declared that he now recognizes the worth of […]

Critics of the United Nations Global Compact have started their own website where they can raise concerns. The Global Compact […]

Harley Davidson is the only company in the automobile and components sector that failed to provide details of its greenhouse […]

Private equity firms hold on to their investments longer than many people think, but have weak formal mechanisms for ensuring […]

John C Knapp (ed). Hardback. 174 pages. Praeger. £25.95/$44.95 It may be relatively slim, but this examination of ‘the ethical […]

One of Britain’s oldest corporate responsibility consultancies has been acquired by a global public relations group. The Corporate Citizenship Company […]

Flybe has become the first airline to introduce an aircraft eco-labelling scheme for passengers. Under the scheme, devised by the […]

The increasing use of internet chat groups to challenge the behaviour of companies was highlighted last month when campaigning against […]

Human rights guidelines have been drafted for pharmaceuticals companies by a United Nations expert. The guidelines on how the industry […]

Confidential details of bribes are being collected by a corporate-led project to give an account of corruption trends in business. […]

Committed staff working as agents of change can make a big difference, argues Malcolm McIntosh Those who openly question company […]

The crisis at Northern Rock is an exposure of corporate social responsibility. The UK’s fifth largest mortgage provider had to […]

The first ever ‘corporate responsibility week’ took place in Ireland last month. EP looks at the state of CSR in […]

A British charter airline has announced that for ethical reasons it will no longer carry deported asylum-seekers who have failed […]

Deutsche Post has entered into a global partnership with the United Nations’ Children’s Fund (Unicef) to reduce child mortality. The […]

Blackrock, part owned by Merrill Lynch, carries out indepth research into companies’ social, environmental and ethical performance for use across […]

The availability of ethically sourced products in British supermarkets further increased last month as Sainsbury’s announced that its own-brand range […]

Findings from one of the largest ever corporate responsibility research projects suggest that executives with social and environmental responsibilities are […]

The pension funds of some of Britain’s most socially responsible companies have been criticized for lacking transparency on their social […]

Supermarkets in Britain should be required to answer to an independent watchdog set up to protect workers in developing countries, […]

The mining industry needs to extend its corporate responsibility efforts beyond well-trodden areas such as community support and do more […]

One of the world’s biggest banks has finalized its first global community investment strategy. Barclays, which operates in more than […]

The world’s largest toy company, Mattel, has created an internal ‘corporate responsibility organization’ with sweeping powers as part of its […]

One of the world’s top business management schools is to integrate corporate responsibility topics into all its MBA courses. Cranfield […]

Two household name companies – Rolls-Royce and Cartier – are to quit Burma as a result of the recent brutal […]

Geneva University is introducing a CSR diploma for business leaders in January. The Certificate of Advanced Studies in Corporate Social […]

A venture capital company formed to support social projects has raised £75million ($150m) for its second community development venture fund. […]

The Korean steel corporation Posco has offered an assured market for dried fish to about 140 fishing families who will […]

Tribal families on the Niyamgiri mountain in the Kalahndi district of Orissa, India, have begun campaigning against a proposed bauxite […]

Yahoo and MSN are among internet companies to have signed new Chinese government guidelines that ‘encourage’ them to register and […]