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Companies, NGOs and auditors alike need to broaden their approach to ethical supply chain management, argues Lisa Kantor For nearly […]

Starbucks is to host meetings in its UK coffee houses for local people to discuss corporate responsibility issues. The global […]

Companies operating in South Asia are to be invited to sign up to principles that will commit them to tackling […]

Simply keeping up-to-date records on suppliers is one of the main challenges of Walt Disney’s global programme to monitor labour […]

The $16billion (£8.8bn) flower industry in the US began to develop a domestic sustainability standard last month with the introduction […]

The percentage of major global companies to have their corporate responsibility reports independently assured has barely risen in the last […]

The multinational gold mining company AngloGold Ashanti has pledged to clamp down on facilitation payments after admitting that some of […]

Eight more companies have joined the Johannesburg Stock Exchange’s SRI index as a result of its first annual review of […]

UK companies are to be urged by Business in the Community to introduce more healthy-living programmes for their employees as […]

Transparency guidelines for institutional SRI funds are to be developed by the European Social Investment Forum (Eurosif) in the wake […]

Three senior CSR practitioners at FTSE 100 companies are among members of a new task force set up by the […]

Coca-Cola Enterprises has created its first dedicated corporate social responsibility role in the UK as it prepares to raise its […]

The CSR Academy is to expand its activities after being given £300,000 ($547,000) by the UK government for another year. […]

The world’s third-largest water company has found a novel way of engaging with its stakeholders on social and environmental issues. […]

Further pressure on companies to respond to climate change will be generated by a decision on the part of FTSE4Good […]

Two newly released research briefings on how companies are managing their responsibilities in respect of public health clearly illustrate the […]

Corporate members of a cement industry sustainability action group are to make efforts to recruit Chinese companies to take part […]

A programme has been set up by the Development Bank of the Philippines to support and encourage the forestation of […]

Large companies in Japan lead the world in producing standalone corporate responsibility reports, says the KPMG international survey of the […]

About half the world’s leading technology companies consider sustainability when designing new products and services, but only a few have […]

A CSR consultant has been called in to advise European retailers that have sourced goods from a Bangladeshi clothing factory […]

The Malaysian government has been asked to offer tax incentives to companies willing to hire reformed drug addicts. The Malaysian […]

Microsoft has opened two centres in the Philippines to add to the information technology teaching it already provides under its […]

Too few investors in New Zealand are aware of initiatives elsewhere in the world that tackle climate change and ensure […]

Commitments have been made by 26 companies operating in China to tackle HIV/Aids in their workplaces and their communities. Their […]

A CSR committee and related office will be established on 1 July by the Japanese Showa Denko K.K. group, which […]

Coca-Cola has hit back at campaigners in India whom it claims are causing the company undeserved reputational damage over its […]

Some industries in Australia, notably mining, are more sustainable than generally assumed, says a new report. The study, by Sydney […]

The CSR in Taiwan website is now live after almost a year of preparation by the Industrial Development and Investment […]

Wood will be sent by the US timber industry to Indonesia for the rebuilding of Aceh province, where the Indian […]

Aviva Australia, part of the international Aviva insurance group, hopes to increase staff volunteering to ten per cent of full-time […]

Five years ago this month, the European Commission announced that corporate social responsibility would become one of the priority areas […]

The Japanese consultancy Sunrise Advisers is to market and sell SRI World Group’s OneReport services in Japan under a newly […]

Helga Birgden has taken up the new post of manager of governance and sustainable investments in the investment department of […]

Oxiana, the Australian mining and exploration company, whose main assets are in Laos, has produced its first sustainability report. The […]

The first meeting of the Asia Pacific Task Force Outreach Group was held by conference call in April. The group […]

A new study by the International Labour Organization shows that 9.5 million of the 12.3 million people in forced labour […]

An SRI symbol has been produced by the Ethical Investment Association to show that a product or service offers investments […]

The controversial Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric dam in Laos is finally to go ahead with loans of $1billion (£540m) from […]

A one-year CSR research programme is to be carried out by the China Pudong Cadre College in Shanghai and the […]

The winners of the 2004 Australian Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Community Business Partnerships improved the lives of remote […]

Business in the Community has been criticised for failing to communicate the results of its corporate responsibility index adequately to […]

An international mining company’s decision to provide free Aids treatment to its employees has begun to show a clear business […]

Sarbanes-Oxley has opened the proxy voting records of thousands of US mutual funds to public scrutiny, adding a new dimension […]

Assets managed in Canada using a socially responsible investment approach have grown in value by more than a quarter in […]

The world’s most respected company has identified almost 18,000 possible instances of its suppliers failing to comply with its core […]

Companies have a lot to teach charities about social responsibility, argues Jon Duschinsky A while back, I was a reluctant […]

Coca-Cola has hit back at campaigners in India whom it claims are causing the company undeserved reputational damage over its […]

A CSR consultant has been called in to advise European retailers that have sourced goods from a Bangladeshi clothing factory […]

Friends of the Earth is using a tough line on corporate social responsibility as part of its latest membership recruitment […]

A board committee on corporate responsibility is to be established by the defence company BAE Systems. The multinational is finalizing […]

Political disagreements have led to further postponement of the European Commission’s long-awaited second CSR communication. The communication, also known as […]

Shareholder activists in the US have signalled they believe stem cell research could become a hot topic for socially responsible […]

Twenty-six institutional investors have released a ten-point action plan calling on US companies to provide ‘comprehensive analysis and disclosure’ about […]

A corporate responsibility programme on sex tourism adopted by one of the world’s largest hotel chains is to be extended […]

The last element of the UK’s Operating and Financial Review regime was put in place last month with the publication […]

The amount of money the South African banking group Nedcor spends with black businesses rose to 22 per cent of […]

UK water companies Anglian and Thames have joined forces to launch a recruitment programme offering training and jobs for young […]

The Labour Party’s UK election win last month has brought a new corporate social responsibility minister into office. Malcolm Wicks, […]

Signatory companies to the United Nations’ Global Compact that fail to deal with allegations that they are not observing its […]

Six companies broke new ground last month by completing a three-year programme of ethical supply chain monitoring in conjunction with […]

An attempt by human rights activists to force the US-based construction equipment company Caterpillar to look into the use of […]

The tobacco industry has begun a pilot programme to eliminate child labour in parts of the former Soviet republic of […]

Consultant editor John Hancock. Kogan Page. 320 pages, £55 hardback Three well-known organizations in the socially responsible investment field in […]

The Philippines government has named 43 companies it claims have persistently failed to observe environmental standards. Six of the companies […]

Most of the large Chinese companies participating in a survey by WWF, the international environmental network, have said they favour […]

Activists from Greenpeace and communities in the Far East disrupted a meeting of China Light and Power (CLP) at the […]

BAT Korea has set up a professional leadership training programme for college students as one of its CSR activities. The […]

Six in ten consumers say they would buy products that are a little dearer if the company selling them has […]

The woman who has been given the job of leading UK government efforts to promote sustainable development in developing countries […]

The Ethical Investment Association (EIA) has won its case to have a phrase removed from an official Australian document suggesting […]

A new fund has been set up to offer risk-limited exposure to a basket of Japanese companies belonging to the […]