CSR News

LONDON - Leaders from government and business across the world will be joined by academics, union officials and NGO representatives to take part in a major corporate citizenship conference this week. Organised by the Commonwealth Business Council and the Royal Institu...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT – The leadership of the Kennecott Coordinated Bargaining Committee (KCBC) and the United Steelworkers of America (USWA) expressed extreme outrage today after the Utah-based Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP, FTSE:RIO.L, ASX:RIO) subsidiary, Kennecott Utah Copper...

WASHINGTON, DC - Recovering from a 27-year old civil war, Angola is transitioning into the world economy and political scene -- from its seat on the UN Security Council, to the government’s recent pledge for greater transparency in oil revenues. Critical internal refo...

BEAVERTON, OR – The U.S. Supreme Court today (6/26/03)dismissed on technical grounds a case in which Nike was seeking to reaffirm the First Amendment right to free and open debate. Nike had challenged in the High Court a California state court ruling that adopted a ...

SEOUL, KOREA and HARTFORD, CT - Hyundai Motor Co. and UTC Fuel Cells, a unit of United Technologies Corp.'s UTC Power unit, have signed an agreement to jointly develop a new automotive fuel cell power plant capable of operating in freezing conditions, one of the remai...

THESSALONIKI - The Greek Presidency initiative to integrate environment and sustainable development into foreign policy was endorsed by the European leaders at the Council on 19-20 June 2003. This proposal calls for a ‘network of experts’ to lead a European Green Dipl...

LONDON, UK -- Poor communities of developing nations are suffering a range of human rights abuses, including land seizure, sexual abuse, rape, child labour, forced labour and murder, because of Western demand for farmed shrimp according to a new rep...

LONDON - Business in the Community's annual 'A Better Way of Doing Business' conference takes place at the Hilton London Metropole, Edgware Road on Thursday, July 10. It examines the issues for business that emerged from the first Corporate Responsibility Index, and ...

VAIL, CO – Consistent with its commitment for the last 13 years, the Sprint Charity Golf Classic will donate more than $100,000 to nonprofit organizations throughout the country, bringing the grand total raised since its inception in 1989 to $1.4 million. The private ...

NEW YORK, NY - Today, Citigroup and Environmental Defense announced that all of Citigroup's Citibank, Global Corporate and Investment Bank, and Global Investment Management locations in the United States have adopted 30% postconsumer recycled copy paper. The new pape...