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Awareness of the United Nations Global Compact will be promoted among companies in Sri Lanka through a collaboration with the […]

Reduction of carbon dioxide emissions is the main theme of the newly announced Nissan Green Programme 2010, which is intended […]

Corporate responsibility specialists will gather in Australia at the end of this month to examine the second draft of a […]

Mainstream reporting is ineffective as an accountability instrument for shareholders, says Simon Zadek So the emperor has no clothes after […]

The European Parliament’s most active political commentator on CSR has tabled a resolution highly critical of the European Commission’s corporate […]

Malaysia’s first CSR index has been set up by OWW Consulting, a specialist research company based in Kuala Lumpur and […]

Central European small businesses are to be encouraged to become more socially responsible through a new programme funded by the […]

A leading consultancy is advancing the debate about the responsibilities of multinationals with a set of principles that enjoins the […]

American companies have been urged to regard campaigns by non-governmental organizations as ‘early warning systems’ of trouble ahead rather than […]

Western companies in China have been warned they are failing to get their CSR policies across to Chinese partners and […]

Manfred Pohl, Judith Hennigfeld, Nick Tolhurst (eds). Wiley. 456 pages. Hardback. £45 The immediate appeal of this book is that […]

When the public gets to hear of a brown envelope having been handed over, it is usually the recipient of […]

A third of Latin America’s 250 largest companies disclose sustainability information, a US study has found. The survey was conducted […]

The Corporate Responsibility Exchange (CRE), the ailing London Stock Exchange project that has been addressing ‘questionnaire fatigue’, has been transferred […]

The United Nations has established a working group to bring socially responsible business principles into the sphere of property investment. […]

Coca-Cola is to consult more fully with local communities around its facilities after having suffered bad publicity about the effects […]

The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) has asked three of its members to investigate accusations that workers in their supply chain […]

Diageo has asked the assurers of its annual corporate citizenship report to provide more commentary on the document’s strengths and […]

Business in the Community has created a set of practical principles that provide simple pointers to how companies can behave […]

Rajesh Srivastava has taken over as chairman of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia (ASrIA) from the […]

Most of Hong Kong’s large garment companies have refused to disclose their employment policies, including their attitudes to child labour, […]

The extent of CSR professional service provision has been laid bare in the first printed international directory of organizations offering […]

The Marriott hotel group has revised its human rights policy specifically to tackle the sexual exploitation of children on its […]

Nike, the international sports apparel and equipment manufacturer, has stopped buying hand-stitched soccer balls from Saga Sports in Sialkot, Pakistan. […]

The trade association for Britain’s insurance industry is to revise its guidelines on the reporting of social and environmental issues […]

Virgin Atlantic is to work with the think-tank and consultancy Forum for the Future in an effort to improve its […]

CSR is a waste of time, and may even do more harm than good, according to one of the most […]

One of the key players in the assurance market, the global consultancy URS, has decided to stop providing detailed assurance […]

A total of $1.4million (£715,000) is being paid to welders brought from Thailand to the US and trapped in a […]

The Vietnamese government has approved a national programme on labour protection, safety and sanitation to improve working conditions and reduce […]

More than 50 wood products buyers, suppliers and policymakers are to produce practical guidance for businesses dealing with companies in […]

A study has found that thousands of Australians have improved their money management in the past year with the aid […]

The Prince of Wales has set in train work to make it easier for businesses to formally calculate the social […]

The Insurance Australia Group (IAG) has taken the top spot in Ethical Investor’s 2006 Australian Sustainability Awards for its climate […]

Amsterdam has become the first capital city in the world to produce a stand-alone sustainability report. The city authority has […]

Whom might we see more of in the corporate responsibility arena during 2007? EP names some individuals likely to come […]

Seven US apparel companies have joined chambers of commerce in calling on the Philippines government to stop political killings or […]

The Chinese government and the banks it owns have been attacked for ignoring human rights and environmental standards in their […]

The winner of the 2006 Asian CSR Award in the support and improvement of education category was Globe Telecom (Philippines). […]

A business partnership has been formed in Pakistan to create jobs, encourage training and improve living standards for women and […]

An Indian organization, the Barefoot College, has won this year’s $1 million Alcan Prize for Sustainability. The prize annually recognizes […]

The Asian Development Bank is to double its annual investment in water provision and management to more than $2billion (£1.04bn). […]

A book is to be issued by the Malaysian government to guide government-linked companies in practising effective CSR. The publication, […]

China has proposed a new labour law that would crack down on sweatshops and protect workers’ rights by allowing state-owned […]

Market research and trade forums are to be run in Malaysia to communicate changes in rules for legal and sustainable […]

A telephone-based service offering agricultural and veterinary information to farmers in India has been set up by BT, Cisco and […]

Airbus UK is to gather the views of its stakeholders as a prelude to drawing up a corporate responsibility programme. […]

Sponsorship deals with online gambling sites are putting teams at reputational risk, argues Lisa Buchan Britons wager close to £50billion […]

Sometimes the old can learn from the young. Compared with century-old financial auditing, social auditing is a pup, a distinct […]

Internet services company Yahoo! has said the only way to avoid being forced to hand over information on dissidents in […]

Available as hard copy and download at www.utc.com/responsibility/index.htm The centrepiece of United Technology Corporation’s stand at last month’s Business for […]

The extent to which institutional investors in Europe raise social and environmental matters with companies has massively increased over the […]

An attempt to counteract ‘lazy thinking’ on CSR among academics and business people is to be made by a UK […]

Encouraging companies to integrate corporate responsibility throughout their operations rather than confining it to a single department is the most […]

The number of signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment has passed 120. The principles were originally backed […]

Opaque language and jargon are widely believed to undermine the assurance of corporate responsibility reports, a leading reporter in the […]

Canadian aluminium multinational Alcan has introduced an indigenous peoples policy at its 440 sites worldwide. The document, covering just two […]

Nearly 60 organizations now formally assess the social and environmental performance of companies. The Bertelsmann Foundation, a German social welfare […]

Manpower is to use its internal training and education services to support schooling in refugee sites. The US-based employment services […]

A leading US clothing retailer has turned to the unions for help in improving workplace conditions in its supply chain. […]

Companies should benchmark their social and environmental performance themselves and not rely on analysts and rating agencies to do the […]

Companies involved in disaster relief have been advised to put their efforts into long-term recovery rather than providing immediate assistance. […]

Heads of the world’s six largest accounting firms have called for a radical overhaul of the global financial accounting system […]

Bank of America is to extend its CSR programmes to Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The bank is creating […]

Concerns are growing that businesses will not know what they need to include in the annual business reviews required by […]

Mining group Xstrata has been short-listed for the UK Sustainability Reporting Awards, to be announced next March. Xstrata, a Switzerland-based […]

US companies tend to use economic terms and arguments in their CSR communications while European companies concentrate more on issues […]

A large French pension fund has chosen Paris-based rating agency Vigeo and Munich-based research provider oekom to assist in developing […]

Eight of the world’s largest electric utility companies have released an ‘agenda for concerted action’ on greenhouse gas emissions. The […]

Another key figure in Henderson Global Investors’ socially responsible investment operations is to move on, following the firm’s recent review […]

British electricity companies are to be given cash incentives by the national electricity and gas regulator Ofgem for implementing corporate […]

The United Nations has taken its most decisive action yet on ‘free rider’ signatories to the Global Compact by de-listing […]