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The UK compliance specialist CODA has developed software for companies managing their corporate responsibility programmes. The CODA-Control Manager gives employees […]

The Companies Bill, which will introduce a limited range of light-touch measures to encourage corporate responsibility in the UK, will […]

A shipping company, an energy business and two consultancies have combined forces to exchange ideas on improving their environmental performance […]

Standard Chartered Bank is to encourage financial institutions to commit themselves to combating internet child pornography by sharing information about […]

Nick Robins. Pluto Press. 218 pages. Paperback. £15.99. www.plutobooks.com Forget Union Carbide or Enron. When it comes to corporate irresponsibility, […]

The UK’s eight biggest supermarkets are making headway on corporate responsibility but their overall performance is patchy, says the National […]

EP sets out the key changes that will be brought in by the newly revamped Global Reporting Initiative guidelines on […]

The global advertising industry has revised its code of ethics to highlight the dangers of making claims about a company’s […]

Thirty civil society organizations in Germany have created a new CSR group to persuade companies to do more on corporate […]

Progress on responsible business practice on the part of companies in emerging market countries has reached a point where socially […]

EP talks to Robert Rubinstein, founder of this month’s Triple Bottom Line Investing conference, about the progress of socially responsible […]

When the UK government embarked on its reform of corporate law, Google was operating out of a garage. More than […]

The respective roles of business, government and civil society are becoming less clearly demarcated, says David Boyle It isn’t easy […]

The man charged with finding a way forward for the United Nations on human rights and business has reiterated his […]

Two large international organizations have created an initiative to help companies improve labour standards in their global supply chains. The […]

UK-based Henderson Global Investors, one of the most prominent firms in socially responsible investment, has moved to allay fears that […]

Institutional investors managing assets worth more than £850billion ($1600bn) pledged last month to use their collective financial weight to encourage […]

Nine multinationals have joined a project that aims to make big cuts in the energy used in their buildings. The […]

An analysis of full-time CSR jobs on two online corporate responsibility recruitment sites has found that listings in total increased […]

One of the world’s longest-running ethical supply chain management initiatives has generally led to only minor improvements in workplace standards […]

Companies engaged by investors on corporate responsibility issues can become too defensive and bogged down in debating specific allegations about […]

De Beers has announced a $2million (£1.05m) project to improve the lives of Tanzania’s ‘informal’ diamond miners. The multinational, which […]

Companies have been urged to make greater efforts to work with non-governmental organizations on tackling corruption in countries with weak […]

Water is to be laid on within three years by Brandix Lanka, Sri Lanka’s largest apparel exporter, to villages where […]

Public listed companies in Malaysia have made significant progress in corporate governance compliance, said Abdullah Badawi, the premier and finance […]

A complaint accusing the Indian Unilever subsidiary of labour rights violations has been made to the Organization for Economic Co-operation […]

A survey has found that 76 per cent of Hong Kong businessmen have lost a deal in the past five […]

The Indian CSR consultancy Crisil has become one of five organizations around the world to win the Capturing Value research […]

Companies that want to mine in the Philippines will now have to submit their technical and social plans to a […]

The Malaysian stock exchange has published a CSR framework setting out guidelines for public listed companies on environmental, community, marketplace […]

Standard Chartered is setting aside $500million (£266m) over five years to provide development organizations and fund managers with credit and […]

Applications from Asia Pacific are being sought for the second FT Sustainable Banking Awards, which recognize banks that have shown […]

A project has been started in the Netherlands to eliminate inhuman and environmentally undesirable policies among Indian companies supplying natural […]

Vietnam is among the countries to which the International Business Leaders’ Forum is to extend its Youth Career Initiative, a […]

In recent years, there has been considerable public interest in The Coca-Cola Company’s operations in Colombia. Allegations about our business […]

The average length of time that a stock is held is five months. More often than not, to align managers’ […]

Female CSR specialists in the US earn $30,000 (£16,000) a year less than their male counterparts, new statistics show. Women […]

A ‘blueprint’ for long-term investment is to be produced by the end of the year in an attempt to move […]

The France-based timber trade association Le Commerce du Bois (LCB) has introduced a charter on sustainable timber purchasing. Its 160 […]

The Japanese information technology giant NEC has begun for the first time to formally assess the social and environmental performance […]

A ‘reconciliation action plan’ to improve ANZ bank’s relationship with Australian aboriginal people is to be drawn up by the […]

The new head of the Confederation of British Industries, the UK employers’ organization, has indicated he will take a forward-looking […]

Investors are not yet asking companies the right questions about their carbon strategies. As a result, companies are not providing […]

Six American multinationals have expressed interest in supporting the new European Alliance for CSR, a loose network of businesses being […]

Steve Waygood. Incisive Financial Publishing. 234 pages. Hardback. £85. When Surfers Against Sewage campaigners brandished a giant inflatable turd at […]

American businesses have fared badly in last month’s annual review of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, partly due to the […]

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative looks likely to be put on a more concrete footing with a board and a […]

Private consortia takeovers of public companies pose a threat to corporate responsibility, argues Roger Cowe FTSE4Good is in danger of […]

BSkyB is to use its access to customers in their living rooms to encourage them to make energy-saving improvements. The […]

Nine in ten of the world’s major companies now fully accept the commercial risks posed by climate change, but less […]

A number of companies have been accused of refusing to participate in the official complaints procedure for alleged breaches of […]

An inquiry into the future role of business in society has been set up by the UK-based Tomorrow’s Company think-tank. […]

New standards for certifying individual mine sites could be in place by June next year if targets for a new […]

Companies that make and sell hair extensions and wigs have protested over allegations that the industry habitually uses unethically sourced […]

Barclays has extended a fair wage deal for cleaners of its 2000 UK branches. The bank has signed the deal […]

Businesses involved in the production and processing of soya beans have set up a global organization to reduce the industry’s […]

Lobbyists and pension organizations are taking legal action to try to overturn US legislation requiring some state pension funds to […]

The Fairtrade Foundation has hit back at newspaper allegations that coffee producers using its label are breaching fair trade principles. […]

Some of the world’s largest companies have been praised by John Ruggie, the United Nations special representative on business and […]

Indonesian businesses have been congratulated for their progress in introducing corporate responsibility policies by Robert Davies, chief executive of the […]

A senior trade unionist has called for an all-round labour contract system, which is being considered by the Chinese government, […]

Attempts are being made to stamp out corruption by businesses trying to bribe their way into China’s military procurement. Companies […]

An independent investigation has discounted almost all allegations that human rights have been abused at Apple’s iPod factory in Longhua, […]

The Malaysian government will introduce a code of ethics and a performance appraisal system for contractors next year to prevent […]

Asia Energy, a British company that wants to extract 15 million tonnes of coal a year for the next 30 […]

The Asian Development Bank is to conduct a study of its energy policy to promote more use of clean energy […]

The South Korean company Nonghyup CA Asset Management has set up a new socially responsible investment vehicle – the Nonghyup […]

Developing nations in the Asia-Pacific region are among the countries being targeted by an initiative to help women entrepreneurs in […]

A ground-breaking scheme has been started in China to unite businesses and the government in tackling health problems. The China […]

Most countries in the Asia-Pacific region show a willingness to respond politically to human rights violations by corporations, says a […]

Companies that make and sell hair extensions and wigs have protested over allegations that the industry habitually uses unethically sourced […]

The Australian financial institution Mecu has taken first place for the best sustainability report in the 2005 Australia and New […]