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Business strategies and HR practices addressing workplace equity, opportunity and inclusiveness.

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    09-10-08

    Financial Confidence and Empowerment High Among Black Women but Investment Experience, Accumulated Savings Lag

    Of Giving and Gucci:

    Support of Others - Family, Friends and Church - Complicates Savings:

  • 47% of Black Women Say It is Difficult to Have Desired Lifestyle Because of Financial Obligations to Their Immediate Family
  • RSF Social Finance, Design Pioneer Odegard Inc.  Partner In Expanded Effort To End Child Labor In The Carpet Industry  Image

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    09-09-08

    RSF Social Finance, Design Pioneer Odegard Inc. Partner In Expanded Effort To End Child Labor In The Carpet Industry

    New York, New York, September 9, 2008 - Pioneering carpet designer, Odegard Inc., announces today it has selected RSF Social Finance, a socially responsible, nonprofit financial services organization dedicated to unlocking the potential for joy, connection and meaningful imp...

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    09-02-08

    ING Earns Top Marks in 2009 Corporate Equality Index

    ATLANTA,GA. - September 2, 2008 - ING, a global financial services company, proudly announces today that it has earned the top rating of 100 percent in the Corporate Equality Index (CEI), an annual survey administered by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation. "IN...

    Which Companies Have Made A Public Commitment To Human Rights? Image

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    08-22-08

    Which Companies Have Made A Public Commitment To Human Rights?

    - August 22, 2008 - A growing number of major companies "“ including Anglo American, BP, Codelco, GE, HSBC and Mitsubishi "“ have made a commitment to human rights as part of their corporate responsibility initiatives. Over half of the UK's FTSE 100 companies have done so....

    Guatemala Formally Recognizes Its Indigenous People Image

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    08-18-08

    Guatemala Formally Recognizes Its Indigenous People

    GUATEMALA CITY,GUATEMALA. - August 18, 2008 - In a groundbreaking move toward national reconciliation and unity among its peoples, the Guatemalan government has formally recognized the Maya and other native cultures in this Central American nation, granting them an official...

    Marks & Spencer Chooses Sri Lanka To Launch Its Apparel Eco-Factory Concept Image

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    08-15-08

    Marks & Spencer Chooses Sri Lanka To Launch Its Apparel Eco-Factory Concept

    - August 15, 2008 - The Garments Without Guilt campaign, launched by Sri Lanka Apparel, focuses on ethically-made clothing--meaning free of child labour, free of sweatshop conditions and free of forced labour--but they know that being ethical goes hand-in-hand with being sus...

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    08-12-08

    UPS Women Lead the Way in Latin America

    MIAMI,FL. - August 12, 2008 - The transportation industry isn't often cited for cultivating the careers of female executives, but UPS (NYSE:UPS) is the exception.

    Women now head up operations in UPS's top markets in the Americas Region -- Ecua...

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    08-05-08

    African-American Youth Convene Global Conference on Civic Leadership

    CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- The Ron Brown Scholar Program, the nation’s leading scholarship program for African-American youth, will convene a leadership conference in Charlottesville next week, sponsored by Verizon Business, to help propel African-American ...

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    07-28-08

    ChoicePoint(R) ADAM(SM) Program Marks Milestone With 100th Child Recovery

    Alpharetta, GA., July 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - The ADAM program, created by ChoicePoint (NYSE: CPS) in partnership with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), recently celebrated a milestone with the recovery of the 100th missing child. The 100...

    Pioneering BSR Group Offers Simple Solutions to Improve Factory Women's Health  Image

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    07-23-08

    Pioneering BSR Group Offers Simple Solutions to Improve Factory Women's Health

    SAN FRANCISCO - July 23, 2008 - By connecting companies, factories and NGOs, Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) has developed a list of simple solutions these actors can take to help factory women around the world impro...

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