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The 13 best employers in Asia in the Hewitt Associates 2005 study were found to outperform other companies. Research by […]

On behalf of Redeem, the mobile phone and printer cartridge recycling company, I would like to say a heartfelt thank […]

A small point from your recent issue (EP7 issue 1, p10). You describe YTL Power International, the owner of Wessex […]

Supply chain representatives and other interested parties, rather than corporate executives, will speak on CSR and related issues at CSR […]

Syed Babar Ali has been appointed chairman and chief executive of the board of the Global Compact Foundation soon to […]

Co-operation between the public and private sectors to ensure economic and social development is carried out in a more sustainable […]

A three-year initiative to develop CSR teaching materials and curriculum ideas for mainstream degree and MBA courses has kicked off […]

Nike has found abusive treatment in more than a quarter of the South Asia plants producing its branded goods. Between […]

US investment managers remain broadly unconvinced of the merits of incorporating non-financial measures when deciding which companies to include in […]

The technology company Motorola has won two CSR awards for its activities in China. The company’s donations of RMB30million ($3.7m, […]

Giving information on progress and setting high standards for stakeholder involvement are two activities that enabled the Ceylon Tobacco Company […]

A resolution calling on the Newmont Mining Corp in the US to review its policies on toxic waste disposal in […]

A bigger contribution from the private sector will be vital to economic growth and poverty reduction throughout Asia and the […]

Striking the balance 2004: Wessex Water’s annual sustainability report. 40 pages. ‘Our aim’, declares Wessex Water in its latest non-financial […]

EP talks to the head of the Shell Foundation about its plans to act as a catalyst for ‘pro-poor’ initiatives […]

National contact points that pass judgement on companies alleged to have breached the OECD’s guidelines for multinational enterprises need advisory […]

Technology is being produced to help Australian companies to improve energy efficiency while protecting the environment. The software will collect […]

Jamshedpur, a city of 600,000 people in the Indian state of Bihar, has signed up to the United Nations Global […]

A CSR research centre has been set up by Bath University in the UK. The Centre for Business, Organizations and […]

Financial markets may be faltering, but ethical or socially responsible investment continues to gain ground. The number of UK ethical […]

Fears that Nike’s long-awaited second corporate responsibility report would be guarded and uninformative in the wake of the Kasky v […]

Shareholder activists in the US have agreed to drop climate change resolutions tabled at five oil and gas businesses now […]

More and more companies are realizing they cannot tackle supply chain issues on their own and will have to work […]

CSR lies in the realm of investment, and not governance, analysis, argues Christine Farnish Some people argue that institutional investors […]

New research shows that 85 per cent of Australian and Asian investment managers believe SRI practices will become mainstream within […]

Ed Williams, the head of CSR at Marks & Spencer, is leaving after 25 years with the UK retailer. Under […]

BP has produced two versions of its sustainability report in an effort to communicate it to lay people as well […]

The engine manufacturer Cummins has taken top place in the annual US 100 Best Corporate Citizens awards. Cummins, based in […]

One of the world’s biggest investment banks has taken the unusual step of creating a sell-side research team on socially […]

Evidence that companies are becoming better at integrating CSR within their operating units has emerged in the latest Corporate Responsibility […]

Most UK charities find partnerships with corporates work well and want to increase their involvement, a survey suggests. A poll […]

Supporters of efforts to develop a set of ‘norms’ on acceptable behaviour by multinationals under the auspices of the United […]

ChevronTexaco has been warned that its proposed $18billion (£9.6bn) takeover of Unocal could make it a focus for human rights […]

Hewlett-Packard has taken first place in this year’s North American Sustainability Reporting Awards, which attracted a record 68 entries. The […]

A global trade association representing companies in direct marketing is to form a CSR committee. The New York-based Direct Marketing […]

Wal-Mart has lost a legal battle in Canada to prevent a regulatory authority from seeing its in-house handbook on how […]

A division of the world’s second-largest restaurant company has challenged others in the fast food sector to follow its lead […]

A regulatory body formed by the UK government is expected to allay retailers’ worries about risks to their reputation resulting […]

Large charities in England and Wales will now have to state their policy on socially responsible investment when they file […]

An inquiry has begun into the role of company boards in fulfilling the social and environmental responsibilities of businesses. The […]

One of the world’s leading international banks has stepped up its commitment to CSR by creating a board-level Corporate Responsibility […]

Strong financial performance is linked in a new Australian report to good corporate responsibility. Research by AMP Capital Investors shows […]

The Tokyo investment company Green Earth has set up a fund called Ecoland to buy polluted land, restore it and […]

More detailed and specific evidence of ethical practice has been demanded in questions to companies participating in Australia’s second Corporate […]

Public pressure over the social consequences of alcohol has forced the Bangkok stock exchange to postpone indefinitely the listing of […]

A ratings system showing the countries where illegal logging is rife is being drawn up to help businesses, customers, investors […]

The attitudes of Chinese corporations will be studied and discussed at a forum in Shanghai on 1 and 2 June. […]

Harvard, the world-famous US university, is selling an estimated $4.4million (£2.35m) stake in PetroChina, whose parent company, owned by the […]

Pfizer, the international pharmaceuticals company, has donated $11million (£5.85m) to relief organizations and has provided medicines and other health products […]

Fourteen companies joined the Philippines Business for Social Progress organization between October 2004 and March this year, raising membership to […]

Forced and child labour were not found in Cambodia when the International Labour Organization conducted its latest regular investigation into […]

The Institute of Contemporary Observation in Shenzhen has won an award for sustainable development in China given by the Shell […]

Japanese companies are prominent among the new entries to the FTSE4Good Index series, which list ethically responsible businesses. Of the […]

The Samsung Group, Korea’s leading industrial organization, has established new principles to foster company-wide ethical and transparent management. The code […]

The China Business Leaders’ Forum (CBLF) has been formed with an emphasis on business transparency, guiding managers on transparent trading, […]

SRI funds are among the new equity products now attracting interest in Asia, delegates were told at the Investment Company […]

The Chinese government has urged businesses and non-governmental organizations to take part in its campaign against HIV and Aids. Most […]

CSR observance is still slack in Indonesia, delegates were told at a seminar held by the non-profit group Leadership for […]

To win back some of the trust it has lost, business must start voicing opinions on moral matters, argues Sir […]

Pressure is to be applied on some of the UK’s smaller oil and mining companies to support the Extractive Industries […]

The UK’s public relations industry is to formulate CSR standards in the coming year. A CSR network set up by […]

Activists have set up a hedge fund betting on the possibility that the market value of a company will fall […]

Forty-two of the world’s major steel companies have brought out a joint sustainability report on their environmental and social impacts. […]

Brazil is to get its own sustainability index this summer. The benchmark, being set up by Bovespa, the Brazilian stock […]

The UK’s CSR Academy has begun a search for international and development organizations interested in buying a licence to use […]

Ikea has begun discussions with Unicef, the United Nations children’s agency, on countering child labour in the north Indian state […]

Fifteen companies are facing shareholder resolutions in the US urging them to adopt human rights policies on workplace conditions in […]

One of the legal devices used by US campaigners to challenge companies on their social and environmental performance has been […]

The UK spirits and wines distributor Allied Domecq has brought together a group of ‘ethical champions’ inside the company as […]

The apparel and footwear sector is to have its own supplement to the Global Reporting Initiative guidelines on sustainability reporting. […]

John Elkington has had a big influence on the development of more sustainable business practices. His online journal offers an […]

Corporate responsibility in Russia is generally ‘disorganized and chaotic’, according to the first national assessment of the social impact of […]