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What's a Life Worth?

What is a life worth? What about one year of life? On the David Pakman show, two stories made our crew consider this question. On March 11th, 38-year-old Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly sneaked out of his American military base...

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Consumer Goods Industry Shares Best Practices on How to Eradicate Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains

Published: Jun 20, 2017 – 04:00 AM EST

PARIS, Jun. 20 /CSRwire/ - With 21 million victims of forced labour in the world today, members of The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) are actively promoting responsible business actions to help eradicate forced labour in global supply chains. Through the new CGF publication,...

Support to Human Rights and Refugee Causes via Corporations Increases Almost 40 Fold Following Travel Ban

Published: Jun 19, 2017 – 07:00 PM EST

CALGARY, AB, Jun. 19 /CSRwire/ - This World Refugee Day, Benevity, the market leader in workplace giving, volunteering and community investment software, announces that donations made through its award-winning cloud solution to human rights and refugee causes have increased 6 times year-over-year since...

Yanacocha Will Continue to Seek Good-Faith Dialogue to Resolve Land Dispute with Chaupe Family

Published: May 03, 2017 – 02:08 PM EST

CAJAMARCA, Peru, May 03 /CSRwire/ - Peru's Supreme Court today dismissed Yanacocha's appeal of the Superior Court of Cajamarca's 2014 ruling acquitting members of the Chaupe family of 'aggravated usurpation' when they occupied land parcels owned by the company in August of 2011....

Civil Society Groups Ask U.S. Supreme Court to Reject Chevron's Attempts to Undermine Amazon Pollution Case

Published: May 01, 2017 – 03:09 PM EST

OAKLAND, Calif., May 01 /CSRwire/ - Several prominent environmental and human rights groups are demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court block Chevron's ongoing attacks on their Free Speech rights and its use of false evidence in the historic Ecuador pollution case, where the...

Free Webinar, April 5: The 2016 Anti-Slavery Compliance Benchmarking Study – Trends and Good Practices

Published: Mar 30, 2017 – 12:15 PM EST

REUTLINGEN, GERMANY, Mar. 30 /CSRwire/ - Join us on April 5, 2017, for an interactive webinar which will explain the findings, trends, and good practices of a recently released anti-slavery compliance benchmarking study. Prepared by the NPO Development International (DI), the study rated...

Companies' Anti-Slavery Performance Improves, iPoint-funded Study Reveals

Published: Mar 07, 2017 – 10:00 AM EST

REUTLINGEN, GERMANY, Mar. 07 /CSRwire/ - Social and environmental compliance, sustainability, and digital circular economy expert iPoint is excited to announce the release of a new comprehensive benchmarking report which evaluates brands on their anti-slavery compliance with the California Transparency in Supply Chains...

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