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Community Development

A picture of happiness: CSR practitioners in their place of work

People working in corporate responsibility appear to be ‘overwhelmingly happy’ with their lot, according to the latest annual CSR salary […]

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January 29, 2009

Community Development

ISO 26000 takes shape as consensus takes hold

The long-awaited ISO standard on social responsibility has taken its most important step forward with the publication of a ‘committee […]

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January 29, 2009

Community Development

What types of businesses benefit from using a cardboard baler?

Guest column by QCR — Essentially, any business that produces waste cardboard could be in a position to warrant a cardboard […]

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January 12, 2009

Community Development

Office supplies firm takes Australian award

Corporate Express Australia, the office supplies and services company, has been named Sustainable Company of the Year in the Australian […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

New initiative helps companies provide disaster relief

A website has been set up to help non-governmental organizations in Asia obtain corporate help for disaster relief efforts. The […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Nepal firms ‘need government support’ on inclusion

Business in Nepal, particularly small enterprises, will need significant help to support inclusive recruitment, delegates decided at a recent roundtable […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Indian business makes progress on climate change disclosure

Many more of India’s leading companies have signed up to disclose their carbon emissions and climate policies, a second round […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Starbucks helps Asian social entrepreneurs

A Philippines organization providing microfinance loans to unemployed young people and a programme in Pakistan that combats violence against women […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Rag-picker business is recognised

A young businessman from Hyderabad in India who specializes in plastic bag recycling has become the Entrepreneur of the Year […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Business gets advice on how to treat lower castes

The International Dalit Solidarity Network has published the Dalit Discrimination Check, a tool to guide companies in preventing discrimination and […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Dole and Freeport expand scholarship programme

The Dole Food Company in the Philippines and PT Freeport Indonesia have formed partnerships with the US Department of State […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Chinese banks produce first CSR report

China’s financial institutions have all recorded dramatic achievements in capital adequacy rates, asset quality and risk management while expanding their […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Intel backs training in India

Intel has gone into partnership with the US State Department Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau (ECA) to provide information technology […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Korean Air in trouble over gender policy

Korean Air has been accused by the National Human Rights Commission of discrimination against men in its recruitment of cabin […]

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January 8, 2009

Community Development

Chevron cleared of abuse – but cases still pile up

The huge oil group Chevron has been cleared by a US jury of complicity in violence that erupted on one […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Sodexo pleases investors with group-wide policy

The facilities management multinational Sodexo has adopted a group-wide human rights policy after an investors’ engagement campaign. The Paris-based company, […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

UN to establish non-financial database

The United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) is creating a global database of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Brazil reporters come close to highest grades

An analysis of sustainability reporting in Brazil has suggested that companies there are among the top performers in emerging economies […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Recommended actions to foster the adoption of CSR practices in SMEs

Carlo Cici & Federica Ranghieri. Free download. Inter-American Development Bank. www.iadb.org Since wading into Latin America’s corporate responsibility arena some […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Huge deal aims to change face of security industry

The world’s second largest private employer has signed an Ethical Employment Partnership with the biggest international grouping of trade unions. […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Compact gets research base

An international research unit will be set up to support the work of the United Nations Global Compact.   The […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

CSR makes big strides as Russia sees global benefit

Corporate responsibility has finally taken a firm hold in Russia, according to a new analysis. The study indicates that 90 […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Institutional investors call on big firms to give more thought to water

A $1500 billion (£1001bn) alliance of investors, all signatories to the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment, is asking 100 […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

22 OECD cases in pipeline

More than 20 alleged breaches of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) guidelines for multinational corporations are being […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Unilever denies ethical basis for Israel sale

Unilever is selling its stake in a factory in an illegal Israeli settlement on the West Bank – but has […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Marshalls gives all its products carbon labels

A building materials company has become the first business to adopt a new carbon labelling scheme for all products. Marshalls, […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Wal-Mart is most improved

Wal-Mart made the best progress on corporate responsibility issues in the retail industry last year, according the annual industry report […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Internet giants sign up to fight online censorship

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have signed up to principles whereby they agree to offer better protection for online freedom of […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Job losses begin as crunch leads to internal reshuffles

Signs that the global financial crisis is starting to affect jobs in the responsible business world emerged last month as […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Tata fares best in new Indian CSR ranking

Tata has been placed top of a new sustainability index based on the views of India’s opinion leaders. The index, […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Barclays and Nike place new focus on girl power

The multinational companies Barclays and Nike have separately committed themselves to projects aimed at boosting the self-esteem and prospects of […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Good reporting depends on keeping your focus

Try to think of who you are addressing and what they might want to know, advises Tom Rotherham During 2008 […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

2009: a year to keep our collective resolve

The next 12 months are not likely to be easy for anyone. EP asked a selection of people in the […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Recessionary winds will blow hard, but they’ll also help us concentrate

There’s little doubt that 2009 will be a tough year on many fronts. But how will it be for socially […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Geneva body aims to make SRI a convention

Mike Scott talks to one of the founders of a new organization that intends to spread the word about sustainable […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Finance sector gets its own GRI supplement

Guidance for financial services institutions on what to include in annual sustainability reports has been finalized by the Global Reporting […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

New code tells firms how to treat migrant workers

British companies have been offered a voluntary code of practice on employing migrant workers. The eight-page document comes from Business […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Tourism gets global code

A coalition of 32 tourism trade organizations and companies has announced criteria to guide members on reviewing their social and […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Reports should provide more context, say accountants

Two leading accountancy bodies have warned European companies they should not rest on their laurels when it comes to their […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Silence on ownership structure ‘hampers CSR debate’

A call has been made for more debate about how company ownership structures should be changed to encourage responsible business […]

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January 6, 2009

Community Development

Body Shop raises Aids awareness

Body Shop has collaborated with the Brunei Darussalam Aids Council at a shopping mall in Gadong to raise awareness of […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

DHL backs malnutrition project

DHL, the international express and logistics company, is giving $650,000 (£441,000) to support the efforts of Unicef and the Indian […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Tata heads new Indian sustainability index

Indian companies are said in a report from BT, the international communications provider, to be taking positive steps towards sustainable […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Alcoa chairman gets Asia award

Alain Belda, chairman of the aluminium company Alcoa, has been given an environmental award by the Asia Society, the US […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Barclays supports Indian slum dwellers

Adolescent Indian girls in a Mumbai slum and in three districts of rural Maharashtra will benefit from a partnership between […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Workers hotline expands to five more Asian territories

Clear Voice, a workers’ confidential communication hotline on employees’ rights, which has just completed its first year of operations in […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

New service helps companies tackle disasters

A supply chain management website has made finding corporate sponsorship easier for non-governmental organizations that are working with victims of […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

IT giants tackle climate change in Philippines

Intel and Hewlett-Packard, two of the world’s biggest information technology groups, are to tackle global warming and climate change through […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Holcim prize goes to village project

A rural planning design for a suburban village in Beijing has received the $100,000 (£67,900) top prize in the Asia […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Nike backs girl power

Afghanistan and Nepal will be included next year in the Adolescent Girls Initiative, a Nike-backed project aimed at promoting the […]

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December 5, 2008

Community Development

Firms agree to look at new HIV/Aids action

Seventeen large pharmaceuticals companies are to invest more in producing treatments for HIV/Aids in poor countries. Their decision follows a […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Obama factor lifts hopes of new era in American CSR

Guarded optimism has taken hold of US corporate responsibility proponents as they prepare for what they hope will be a […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Vodafone consistency brings ranking reward

Vodafone has regained the top spot in the annual Accountability rating of the world’s 100 largest corporations. It was previously […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Responsible business world loses two visionaries

Two US pioneers of responsible business – Joan Bavaria and Ed Burke – have died. Bavaria, who died aged 65 […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Work begins on global social auditing standard

A step towards developing international social auditor standards has been taken in the US, with the backing of the Department […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Hold the front page: T-Mobile tells all

A mobile phone company has taken the unusual step of producing an in-store newsletter on corporate responsibility aimed specifically at […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Kroger is ‘most generous’ US company

The groceries and supermarkets group Kroger has been declared the most generous corporation in the US by Forbes magazine. The […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Carbon standard unveiled

A government-backed standard has been created to show businesses how to consistently measure the carbon footprint of their products. PAS […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

How Scrooge’s partner cut through business humbug

Dickens’s Christmas classic shows the way to be a successful CSR change agent, says John Turner At this time of […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Call for new ethical label to cover third world

Companies should be offered a new way of labelling ‘ethical’ goods that benefit people in the developing world, a think […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Mobile firm aims to be catalyst on poverty goals

Ericsson has pledged to play a leading role in raising awareness of the millennium development goals (MDGs) in the worldwide […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Study links CR Index firms to better share returns

Companies that regularly take part in the UK’s annual Corporate Responsibility Index appear to show a better return for their […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Chinese agree ‘capacity-building’ on factory conditions

A trade body in China has endorsed an agreement that could improve working conditions in Chinese textile and garment factories […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Obama has a golden opportunity to alter America’s CSR landscape

Sometimes it’s wise to be careful what you wish for. Supporters of Barack Obama now have ‘change’ not only in […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

CSR should be ‘weaved in’

Companies have been urged to think more about using existing communication channels to get corporate responsibility messages to employees, rather […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Investors want urgent action

A group of more than 130 major global investors issued a joint statement last month warning politicians not to allow […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Fund managers making progress on the SRI front

Leading UK fund managers have shown a marked improvement in their performance and disclosure on SRI issues during the past […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Funds attack ‘fat cat’ pay at largest five Swiss firms

Institutional investors in Switzerland are to make a rare foray into shareholder activism next year in an effort to curb […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Tribute: ‘dedicated, authentic, generous and engaging’

More than 350 tributes were sent to EP in the few days after its founder Alistair Townley’s death. Here, just […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Alistair Townley: loveable pioneer who spread the green gospel

As many readers will already know, Alistair Townley, co-founder and publisher of Ethical Performance, died on 30 October of a […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Why SRI could be propelled into the spotlight

Mike Scott talks to pioneering ethical investment advocate Peter Kinder about his belief that the current financial turbulence could teach […]

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December 3, 2008

Community Development

Brewer to cut its water use

One of the world’s largest beer makers has promised to reduce its water consumption throughout its global operations. SABMiller has […]

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December 3, 2008