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Corporate Social Responsibility
News
2.10.2004 ET
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CSR News from:
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World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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WBCSD Media Update: The WBCSD Identified as 'Influential Forum' By Recent World Bank Survey
(CSRwire) Geneva, 10 February 2004 - In a study commissioned jointly by the
World Bank and its financial arm, the International Finance Corporation,
the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) was
identified as one of the "most influential forums" for companies on
corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=3945
Global Compact sets out to fight corruption, meets in Paris
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Geneva, 4 February 2004 - The United Nations Global Compact is seeking CEO
views from its signatory companies to pass the recently proposed tenth
Principle against corruption: Business should combat corruption in all its
forms, including extortion and bribery.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/includes/getTarget.asp?type=DocDet&id=Mzg1NA
Video: Business leaders speak out on Sustainable Livelihoods
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Geneva, 3 February 2004 - Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of Lafarge comments
on the benefits to engaging in sustainable livelihoods projects while
laying out some of the obstacles business faces when doing so.
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Watch the video: http://www.wbcsd.org/web/slvideo.htm
Case study: Vodacom - Extending telecom services to South Africa's
poor
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Faced with the immense challenge of providing shelter and such basic
services as clinics, schools and sanitation to millions of South Africans,
the added challenge of providing conventional telephone services to these
citizens is a heavy demand for the State.
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http://www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&DocId=Mzg1Mg
More fresh reports hit the WBCSD's SD Reporting Portal
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We continue to update the WBCSD's Sustainable Development Reporting Portal
(http://www.sdportal.org) and have added
another 13 sustainability reports to the "List of Reports". New reports are
available from Allianz, ChevronTexaco, L'Oréal, and Ofizer among
others.
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http://www.sdportal.org/templates/Template3/layout.asp?MenuId=360
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