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A new analysis of US government programmes has discovered that the Bush administration is doing more on CSR than some […]

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Inactivity is the norm in South America when it comes to corporate responsibility, says Oliver Balch When you talk about […]

A third of disadvantaged people who have been on a Marks & Spencer work placement scheme have since found jobs. […]

Ethical auditing of suppliers by the mobile phone group O2 has encouraged two of them to introduce their own ethical […]

The world’s first stakeholder engagement standard has been established by the Institute of Social and Ethical Accountability. The AA1000SES standard […]

The world’s second largest tobacco group is to push the European Union to end its ban on an alternative to […]

The Global Reporting Initiative is to adopt a more self-sufficient business policy of generating money from training and educational services […]

US companies have contributed millions of dollars towards disaster relief efforts after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in the […]

The Australian Ethical Balanced Trust has won the Standard & Poor’s Fund Award for Australia in the ‘balanced funds – […]

Socially responsible investors in the US have produced guidelines advising large retailers on reducing the undesirable social and environmental effects […]

UK-listed house builders have significantly improved their social and environmental performance over the past year. The second annual assessment of […]

The United Nations has finally agreed a complaints procedure to deal with any allegations that corporate signatories to its Global […]

Broadcasting company Sky is seeking to improve feedback on its latest Corporate Responsibility Review by making a donation to charity […]

Kraft Foods has brought out an instant coffee for the mass UK market sourced from farms certified by the Rainforest […]

Since 1997 there has been a growing emphasis on tackling financial exclusion and increasing access as part of the social […]

Christopher Foss has become corporate services and communications director at Social Accountability International, the US body that administers the SA8000 […]

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CSRChina.net has been set up to enable Chinese businesses to find CSR information, to share knowledge on the subject with […]

Many US companies are failing to meet the criteria necessary for inclusion in one of the world’s best-known SRI indexes. […]

Two of the largest socially responsible investment rating agencies in continental Europe have merged. Brussels-based Ethibel and Paris-based Vigeo have […]

Four Indonesian companies took awards at the first Sustainable Enterprise Performance Conference in Jakarta. The awards will now become an […]

The rating agency RepuTex has started its RepuTex SRI Index, Australia’s first SRI barometer. The index measures the share market […]

Shalini Mahtani, chief executive of Community Business, the organization she formed in 2003, has been given the Chief Executive’s Commendation […]

Hewlett-Packard has asked its national managers in 23 European countries to draw up action plans on diversity. The US multinational, […]

Cisco, the information technology group, has joined the founding partners of Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships to help the indigenous communities of […]

An organization has been formed to enable Australian companies to measure the effects of their community investments. The group, LBG […]

An international advisory group has been formed to expand the scope of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and to work […]

CSR proponents need to be more open and honest with business journalists, argues Roger Cowe An eminent left-wing writer once […]

The conservation group ForestAlert has urged companies and individuals to protest to Japan’s Nippon Paper Group about its sourcing of […]

A few years ago, specialist agencies rating companies’ social, environmental and ethical record were popping up all over the place. […]

Japan’s environment ministry is to fund projects proposed by community groups to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The ministry insists it […]

Procurement managers in the utility sector are putting the final touches to an initiative that will require their suppliers to […]

International companies have formed Business Action for Africa to build on the momentum of the Commission for Africa and the […]

Corporate donations to charity by UK listed companies have shown their first rise for three years. However, although they have […]

A campaign to make the public more aware of socially responsible business practice is to be run by the European […]

Businesses have signalled that they want the Global Reporting Initiative to make its sustainability reporting guidelines easier to follow. A […]

Lawyers’ associations have been urged to play a more active role in persuading corporate lawyers to become involved in socially […]

Companies have at last been given guidance on the extent to which their sustainability reports should cover the outer reaches […]

A third of the financial institutions that issue increasingly popular ‘covered bonds’ to investors fail to do so in a […]

Some of the UK’s largest companies are to be encouraged by two large investors to link their senior executives’ pay […]

The international jewellery industry is to establish the first global responsibility guidelines for its products. Influential businesses in the gold […]

Partnership work with non-governmental organizations and community groups has helped BHP Billiton win the top accolade in this year’s Business […]

The US state of Illinois has passed a new law requiring itself to divest about $1billion (£550m) worth of pension […]

US-based KLD Research Analytics is setting up a new investment index composed of companies that take ‘positive’ action to reduce […]

Many of the world’s largest multinational companies are now providing more information on their lobbying practices, according to new research. […]

Large retailers have struck a deal with Bangladesh textiles and clothing manufacturers, promising to maintain their orders and the prices […]

Newmont, the mining group previously accused of causing environmental damage, is helping an Indonesian fishery company to build a processing […]

Royal Mail Group is restructuring its social responsibility programme as the UK government considers the future of the state-owned postal […]

Marks & Spencer is to provide business advice and expertise to entrepreneurs in an effort to improve wealth generation in […]

Japan’s Nissan motor company has published views of employees and management in its second annual sustainability report. To meet customers’ […]

Five superannuation funds have urged the directors of Australia’s largest companies to encourage good business ethics to protect themselves against […]

Coca-Cola is to examine its labour and business practices in India and Colombia to keep its $1.3million (£730,000) contracts with […]

Guidelines giving a comprehensive introduction to sustainability reporting have been issued by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants Malaysia – […]

Staff at the Asian Development Bank have been urged to economize on paper, water and electricity and to reduce the […]

An initiative has been started to help Bangladesh to develop its textile and garment sector as a competitive, profitable and […]

Microsoft, the huge software group, has put $90,000 (£51,000) into an information technology training programme in Bangladesh. The initiative is […]

Scholarships have been granted to 29 Hong Kong students under the first educational link-up between the Australian government and a […]

The private sector’s role in supporting illegal logging in Indonesia is highlighted in a new report on the trade. The […]

Proposals to outlaw the sexual harassment of women have been put to China’s top-level legislature. They are amendments to an […]

Vietnam has become the first country to sign a commitment to explore and encourage sustainable fishing practices. A three-year programme […]

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About 8000 companies will report their greenhouse gas emissions under a law passed by Japan last month in its efforts […]

How does a multinational company go about trying to integrate human rights in its operations? EP looks at the approach […]

Are bribery and corruption the poor relations of corporate social responsibility? Their inclusion in responsible business practice guidelines often seems […]

Three Japanese information technology companies have introduced policies to make it easier for employees to work while raising a family, […]

The Indian Tobacco Company has won the Corporate Social Responsibility Award 2004 from The Energy and Resources Institute for its […]

The resources of US businesses should be pooled and directed through public-private partnerships to improve their assistance to the devastated […]

Chemicals company Henkel has come top of a new ranking of German corporate sustainability reporters. Henkel scored 494 points out […]

A new standard has been established for the Chinese textile industry, the country’s first socially responsible auditing benchmark for the […]

The heads of 13 UK and international companies have written a letter to prime minister Tony Blair demanding a ‘strong […]

UK-based Armajaro Asset Management introduces the first pan-European SRI hedge fund this month. The fund, named Coolum Strategus, will short […]