Human Rights is an ideology, belief, and movement that supports the notion that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and thus have inalienable rights including the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.
ATLANTA, Sep. 15 /CSRwire/ - ING, a global financial services company, today announces that it has received a perfect score on the 2010 edition of the Corporate Equality Index, an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. “At ING,...
COPENHAGEN, Sep. 01 /CSRwire/ - Refugees United, an "NGO 2.0" organization making innovative use of technology to help people in need, today announced that SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) has made a commitment to donate software and expert assistance to the organization....
Belize, Aug. 24 /CSRwire/ - PCI Media Impact is partnering with UNICEF Belize and Red Cross Belize to produce Echo, the first radio magazine show to discuss HIV/AIDS and healthy sex practices in this underserved nation. Echo's highlight is the 20-episode radio soap...
BOSTON, August 10 /CSRwire/ - ACCION(R) International, a pioneer and leader in microfinance, announced today that former CEO María Otero has been confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as U.S. Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs. With her confirmation,...
London - 30 July 2009 - Today the non-profit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre launched the world's only online portal for all materials relating to the work of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative on business & human rights, Professor John Ruggie....
Boston, MA - July 16, 2009 - At today's Fidelity shareholders meeting, results were announced on votes cast by millions of Fidelity customers on adopting a policy to prevent Fidelity from investing their savings in companies that substantially contribute to genocide or crimes...
CINCINNATI, June 16, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the Pakistan conflict that has displaced more than 2.5 million people, about half of whom are children, Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) and World Vision will provide more than 11 million liters of clean...
ACCION's Maria Otero to Serve as One of Six Under Secretaries of State; Tapped to Lead U.S. Foreign Relations on Democracy, Human Rights, Labor, Population and More