ALL STORIES

The pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), whose offices in Thailand and India have been targeted by demonstrations against its attempts to […]

A grouping of more than 20 Asian civil society groups has warned against the wholesale ditching of draft UN guidelines […]

Only nine per cent of small and medium-sized enterprises in Hong Kong have any awareness of CSR principles, reports CPA […]

The Japanese post office network, which handles trillions of yen of ordinary investors’ savings, has started selling an ethical fund. […]

The worker training programme of Social Accountability International (SAI) has been expanded to include the Prosperous Group, a 3000-employee sports […]

Microsoft and the United Nations have teamed up to provide the technology to promote tourism in the emerging countries of […]

Classroom-based Aids education is being directed at about 6000 call centre staff in Chennai, India, by Standard Chartered Bank. The […]

The second edition of an Indian CSR guide lists the practices and policies of more than 50 organizations. The Who’s […]

An open appeal has been issued by watchdog organizations for an end to alleged labour rights violations at two garment […]

Tax breaks encouraging companies to produce annual sustainability reports are to be considered by the Australian government after a recommendation […]

Has the leopard changed its spots? Last autumn Wal-Mart announced a dramatic conversion to corporate social responsibility, following the positive […]

Five multinational food trading companies have decided to stop sourcing soya beans grown on newly deforested land in Brazil’s Amazon […]

A final version of the Global Reporting Initiative’s sustainability reporting guidelines has been approved by its directors. The approval of […]

A dozen international companies, including Barclays, Gap, Novartis and Statoil, have committed themselves to develop a ‘common framework’ on business […]

Wal-Mart appears to be making early progress on its promise to embrace corporate responsibility, despite scepticism from investors and pressure […]

British banks have given a non-committal response to a proposal that an independent Social Investment Bank be created to receive […]

Should it be CSR or CR? It’s better to change behaviour than the phrases we use, says Sir Geoffrey Chandler […]

How best to communicate corporate responsibility initiatives to journalists has become a hot topic over the past year. EP offers […]

Hewlett-Packard is to aid the growth of small businesses in deprived areas through a new Microenterprise Acceleration Programme (MAP) that […]

Chemicals multinational ICI has laid out a five-year sustainability plan to run until 2010. The Sustainability Challenge, agreed by ICI’s […]

Eleven non-governmental organizations have decided to practice what they preach on responsible behaviour by creating a voluntary code of conduct […]

Financial institutions have welcomed an update of the Equator Principles, ethical guidelines for lending on large-scale project finance. However, they […]

British building societies have dramatically increased their CSR activity over the past three years, a study has shown. A review […]

Marks & Spencer has become the first company to win the top accolade for a second time in Business in […]

Methodists in Britain have backed a decision by their church’s ethical investment committee to end its long-standing ban on investing […]

Coca-Cola has expressed surprise and disappointment at being dropped from one of the leading SRI indexes in the US. The […]

Too few companies with a solid track record of corporate responsibility use it as a marketing tool, says a new […]

FTSE4Good, the equity index provider, has outlined climate change measures that it will soon expect companies to adopt if they […]

The largest publicly owned companies in the US have grown more willing to disclose details of their social and environmental […]

One of the UK’s largest high street clothes retailers, Primark, has shown an increased commitment to corporate responsibility by joining […]

McDonald’s has turned to internet ‘blogging’ to help it communicate its corporate responsibility messages. The global foodservice retailer has started […]

The ANZ banking group has reported that 11 per cent fewer customers had their credit card limits increased in the […]

Europe’s leading accountancy body has called for a specific international standard on the assurance of non-financial reports. The Federation of […]

CSR will make more progress when business schools and companies work better together, says Peter Lacy Business schools sit on […]

Global sales of Fairtrade products rose by a third to £758million ($1.46billion) in 2005, according to the Fairtrade Foundation, which […]

Thomas Balmes (director). DVD. 79 mins. Produced by Making Movies (see web link below). €150 ($190, £105) The blurb on […]

Corporate responsibility is set to receive a significant boost in the UK as the result of a government-commissioned inquiry urging […]

An initiative intended to help telecoms companies share information on ethical supply chain audits has appointed the supplier management company […]

A French state pension fund has complained that many of the asset management companies which recently bid for mandates to […]

Centrica is to send a set of revised business principles to 10,000 of its suppliers by the end of the […]

Peter Erskine, who became chief executive of mobile phone company O2 in 2001, talks to EP about corporate responsibility as […]

Signs are emerging of a possible backlash against socially responsible investment in some quarters, according to a specialist in the […]

Poor control over long working hours, inadequate pay levels and a lack of proper documentation have emerged as the main […]

Media company ITV is planning to introduce corporate responsibility questions into its future audience surveys as part of its wider […]

When the Corporate Responsibility Exchange was launched by the London Stock Exchange in September 2004, it was said to be […]

Cosmetics company L’Oreal has won acclaim for an initiative that trains employees to serve as HIV/Aids ‘educators’ in regions hard-hit […]

Talking to your stakeholders often fails to reduce their expectations and may actually increase them, a study has found. A […]

International management consultancy Accenture is to expand its pro bono activities. The company’s business units in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and […]

Authorities in Shenzhen are considering the introduction of a CSR standard for local companies, after concluding that business practices in […]

HSBC has been named Sustainable Bank of the Year in a new awards programme recognizing financial institutions that have shown […]

Efforts by the London Stock Exchange to establish a central database of information on companies’ social and environmental performance look […]

UK property development and construction companies hope a pilot programme to reduce supply chain risk will shortly be taken up […]

Margaret Hodge has become the sixth minister in as many years to hold the corporate social responsibility portfolio in the […]

An upgraded ethical supply chain auditing process now in use by the clothing retailer H&M has uncovered more serious breaches […]

Adherence to a voluntary responsible purchasing policy in the timber sector is to become compulsory for members of one of […]

The Ethical Trading Initiative sent a delegation to Bangladesh last month to try to establish the ‘underlying causes’ of recent […]

ABB has hit back at investors and critics concerned at the multinational engineering group’s involvement in business operations in Sudan. […]

Companies should provide their procurement teams with ethical codes of practice that they can work by, the Institute of Business […]

At least 20 factories in the Tianjin area of China, south-east of Beijing, are continuing to operate even though the […]

Stora Enso, the huge Finnish-Swedish multinational paper products group, which has acquired 34,000 hectares of land in China’s Guangxi province, […]

The Bank of China has set up the country’s first fund applying SRI criteria. The fund, under the bank’s International […]

A code of practice covering the social, environmental, cultural, ethical and quality aspects of the tourism business has been introduced […]

Companies in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland have signed a voluntary charter to combat pollution. The initiative, from the […]

A number of Japanese pension funds and asset managers have endorsed the Principles for Responsible Investment introduced at the New […]

The 20 companies in the Chinese Association for Corporate Social Responsibility are to ask their suppliers next month to reveal […]

Unocal has been told it must itself find the money to pay for an out of court settlement with alleged […]

Alcoholic drinks producers in Asia are meeting to decide how best to self-regulate their advertising and marketing in a responsible […]

The ANZ banking group has reported that 11 per cent fewer customers had their credit card limits increased in the […]

The UK government has settled details of its forthcoming requirement on listed companies to publish a forward-looking annual ‘Business Review’ […]

Hewlett-Packard has been judged best performer in an analysis of how multinational IT companies tackle ethical challenges. Geneva-based consultancy Covalence […]

The response to the Global Reporting Initiative’s call for comments on its sustainability reporting guidelines has been ‘overwhelming’, the Amsterdam-based […]

Anglo American is to redouble efforts to persuade its employees to go for HIV/Aids tests and voluntary counselling after failing […]