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The State, Multinationals and Social Responsibility

We all know that the world is far from being a perfect place. The widening gap between the rich and poor, exploitation and violation of human rights on the workplace and beyond, unfair trade and global warming are only a…

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Yunus wants Japan’s ‘social business’

Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus on Tuesday urged the government and private companies to do more "social business" to better help the poor. Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Price for his efforts to eradicate poverty, Yunus told a Tokyo news…

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GSK and Bayer breach Code of Practice

Bayer and GlaxoSmithKline have been named and shamed via adverts in the medical and pharmaceutical press after falling foul of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry’s Code of Practice. The ABPI’s Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority slapped Bayer…

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Covalence ethical quotation system

Geneva-based Covalence tracks the ethical reputation of multinationals by sourcing information from companies, the media and civil society. Thousands of positive and negative news are quantified, coded and synthesized into charts and rankings. This ethical quotation system allows stakeholders to…

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Business Leaders Adopt Decaration on Responsible Business Practices

Business leaders from developed and developing countries today pledged to comply with labour, human rights, environmental and anti-corruption standards as a two-day conference closed in Geneva. At the second United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit, top executives of corporations such…

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French Min: Total Should Do More On Human Rights In Myanmar

GENEVA -(Dow Jones)- French oil major Total SA (TOT) isn't doing enough to press Myanmar to free political prisoners, France's new foreign minister said Thursday. Appointed foreign minister by French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Bernard Kouchner is known for advocating interventionism…

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Big Pharma’s new Africa plan

Unless delegates to a high-profile summit on diabetes in Kenya last week knew it had been paid for by the world's biggest maker of insulin, they would have been none the wiser when they left. The conference, in the lush…

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