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Shareholder activists in the UK have been encouraged by the level of support shown at Shell’s annual meeting for a […]

The tourism and travel industry is to receive United Nations help to improve its performance on human rights. The World […]

The UK Conservative Party must reclaim corporate responsibility for the centre-right, says David Cameron Some of you may have noticed […]

About 40 companies have already expressed interest in participating in the new European Alliance for CSR, a loose network of […]

Reading Tesco’s latest corporate responsibility review, it is hard to imagine how anyone could have a bad word to say […]

CSR managers around the world are being invited to answer questions about their companies’ preparedness to tackle the effects of […]

One of the world’s largest supermarket chains has unveiled a ten-point corporate responsibility plan. The series of measures, which were […]

Half a dozen companies have become founding partners in a UK government initiative aimed at creating a million new community […]

Malcolm Wicks, the UK’s CSR minister, has retained his corporate responsibility brief in the recent government reshuffle despite some discontent […]

The majority of Germany’s largest listed companies are planning to include more information on their social and environmental performance in […]

Investors and lenders are storing up trouble by failing to assess adequately the social and environmental risks of pulp mill […]

The world’s largest chemical companies are making only limited progress on managing safety and sustainability risks, according to a study […]

A row has erupted in the US between one of the country’s largest ethical auditing bodies and the United Students […]

The UK Conservative Party has formed a steering group to develop a formal corporate responsibility policy. The five-strong group, chaired […]

Efforts by companies to reduce under-age working have been partly credited for the first measured decline in child labour across […]

Eight official complaints about alleged breaches of United Nations Global Compact principles by signatory companies have been registered in the […]

An international bank has turned down one in ten investment and loan requests from corporate clients after referring them to […]

Clem Seecharan. Ian Randle Publishers. 696 pages. Paperback. £25.95 This lengthy but illuminating book is not likely to be on […]

The UK’s Corporate Responsibility Index is being refreshed this summer in a bid to maintain its relevance and popularity. EP […]

John Elkington, one of the best known proponents of responsible business practice, is to head a three-year project looking at […]

Authorities in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen are considering the introduction of some kind of CSR certification scheme for […]

The biggest barrier to addressing workplace diversity in Asia is a lack of leadership commitment from the top of companies, […]

The ethical performance of listed Taiwanese companies improved markedly last year, according to a second national analysis of CSR in […]

A government department has won this year’s Sustainability Reporting award in Hong Kong. The Architectural Services Department took the award […]

An appeal has gone out for information on company initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have tried to address the rights of […]

A venture capital fund that aims to help reduce poverty in India has become one of the ten recipients of […]

Almost two thirds of the general public in China think the country should have some kind of compulsory CSR standard, […]

The tea sector in Asia still has a ‘grim’ record on observing accepted workplace standards, according to a new study. […]

Plans have been announced for the creation of the first environmental index fund for socially responsible investors in Japan. The […]

US-based CSR membership organization Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has formed a partnership with the Asian think tank Global Institute […]

The rate of growth in the number of corporate non-financial reports has slowed in the last three years, while their […]

Commerzbank has formed a reputation and sustainability management team as part of efforts to improve its social and environmental performance. […]

Rabobank has won this year’s award for Europe’s best CSR report. The Dutch bank came top in the European Sustainability […]

The Netherlands development organization SNV and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development are to co-operate on promoting ‘pro-poor’ business […]

The last thing corporate social responsibility needs is a new acronym. That said, the Principles for Responsible Investment – PRI […]

SRI proponents must keep challenging the notion that shareholders’ needs are paramount, says Peter Kinder By law, shareholders own corporations. […]

Tate & Lyle has won a gold award for its ‘outstanding community involvement’ from the UK-based Food and Drink Federation. […]

An initiative to provide investors in emerging market equities with better research on the social, environmental and governance performance of […]

Organizations and individuals throughout Asia are being invited to join working groups formed by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil […]

A workplace standard used at more than 800 factories worldwide is to be revised this summer. Social Accountability International, which […]

India’s new-age Yes Bank has joined the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative, whose corporate members work together to reduce […]

Liz Claiborne, Nordstrom and Hilton Hotels are among the 19 companies dropped from the FTSE4Good index after the benchmark index’s […]

The innovative companies that now combine their sustainability report with their annual financial statement are reaping mainly intangible benefits rather […]

Peugeot Citroen has reached a landmark agreement with 85 trade unions by committing itself to new global workplace and supply […]

Most of the world’s largest food companies are still not getting to grips with the potential harm in the goods […]

The Heart of the City group, formed in 2000 by the Bank of England, the City of London Corporation and […]

Banks are making inconsistent progress on responsible lending to consumers, according to one of the UK’s biggest SRI fund managers. […]

An internal training programme at Philips Electronics has equipped more than 500 managers to carry out basic ethical supplier audits […]

More than 70 non-governmental organizations have received training on how to obtain funds for social development tasks at an NGO […]

New advice for investors on what they should be requiring from companies on CSR issues has been published by the […]

The UK government has contracted six industry trade bodies to draw up sustainable development plans for their sectors. The British […]

The pressure on companies to disclose social, environmental and governance risks has increased dramatically with a commitment by institutional investors […]

Full details of an inquiry into CSR in Pakistan are to be published soon. The inquiry has been set up […]

Alcoa, the international aluminium company, has released its first China Sustainability Report, detailing its environmental, social and economic activities in […]

Regulations requiring French companies to disclose details of their social and environmental performance have improved the overall quality of their […]

Starbucks has been accused of failing to show a proper commitment to human rights by siting a coffee store at […]

Corporate responsibility advocates are hoping the Confederation of British Industry may take a more sympathetic approach to CSR with the […]

EP talks to former United Nations assistant secretary general John Ruggie about his tricky task of devising a way forward […]

Olympus Group, the Japanese precision instrument maker, has brought in a procurement policy that will favour suppliers that show they […]

Social Accountability International (SAI) and Solidaridad, a Dutch organization that fights poverty through fair trade, have started to seek out […]

Anwar Ibrahim, the former deputy prime minister of Malaysia, has been appointed honorary president of the UK-based think tank AccountAbility. […]

The recently agreed takeover of The Body Shop by French cosmetics company L’Oreal has sparked fresh discussion about whether a […]

Rory Sullivan and Craig Mackenzie (editors). Greenleaf Publishing. 382 pages. £45. Hardback. This is a book that no professional, academic, […]

High school and university students in Hong Kong are being invited to enter a CSR photograph competition run by AIESEC, […]

The prospect of binding norms governing the behaviour of multinational corporations has been dealt a severe blow by the United […]

Companies should not allow themselves to be bullied into quitting countries with poor human rights records just because pressure groups […]

A Business Taskforce on Sustainable Consumption and Production has been set up by the UK government. The business-led group is […]

People in management CSR jobs in companies can expect to earn an average of £39,700 ($69,400) a year, an Ethical […]

Logistics company DHL has started a community initiative in the UK that allows its employees to share their expertise and […]

Pressure on internet businesses to tackle the human rights implications of online censorship has intensified with the publication of a […]

Paperback and at www.reebok.com. 76pp. Reebok’s Human rights report 2005 is an impressive piece of work. It contains lots of […]

Camelot has brought in the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply to analyse its supply chain practices as part of […]