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A landmark step in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Tanzania's media industry is to be marked today when 18 media houses launch their workplace policies on HIV/AIDSThe policies[will address] prevention, treatment, care, support and reduction of stigma and discrimination within the media houses. The Housesare Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC), Tanzania Standard Newspapers Limited (TSN), The Guardian Limited, Free Media Limited, Radio Tumaini and Tumaini Letu Newspaper, Sahara Communication Publishing Company Limited and Tazama Newspapers Co LimitedWorld and Peace Organization (WAPO), Business Times Limited (BTL), Clouds Media Group, Emen Nyakati, Free Media Limited, Global Publishers and General Enterprises Ltd, Hoja Newspaper Ltd, Kiongozi Newspaper, Media Solutions Ltd (MSL), Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL), New Habari (2006) Limited and Independent Television (ITV) and Radio One
...Malheureusement, au Marocnous n'avons pas de loi sur la RSE [responsabilite sociale des entreprises]...[Cependant, de nouvelles initiatives emergent:] Il existe un label CGEM destine aux entreprises respectueuses a la fois des...droits de l'homme [et de] la protection de l'environnement...l'Universite Cadi Ayyad [organise un] colloque [intitule] Developpement durable, responsabilite sociale des organisations et performances economiques : bilan, enjeux et perspectives...[en] novembre...[et plusieurs universites, dont] l'UQAM (ESG UQAM, Montreal)... [organisent] une conference internationale regroupant le plus grand reseau de chercheurs francophones en responsabilite sociale des entreprises (RSE) a Agadir du 26 au 28 fevrier 2009.
A scandal over questionable oil industry payments in Libya, brought to light by...StatoilHydro, underlines the need for tougher regulations to deter companies from making undisclosed payments in return for access to oil rights...Opacity and secrecy have provided a cover for the deep corruption that brings poverty, bad government and human suffering to many oil-producing countries, so StatoilHydro has set a welcome example of openness in its handling of this scandal...[also refers to Repsol YPF, Total, Sonangol, Somoil, Norsk Hydro]
...[Dans le cadre de cette enquete, Vigeo a interroge des] entreprises europeennes...[engagees en faveur de la RSE]...sur les conditions dans lesquelles elles apprehendent les referentiels de l'OCDE et celui de l'OIT. [Elles ont egalement ete] interrogees sur le statut qu'elles accordent au Pacte Mondial des Nations Unis et a l'Initiative Globale de reddition de l'Information developpee par la GRI. [L']objectif etait de mesurer...jusqu'a quel degre la norme publique universelle est intelligible, operationnelle et, a terme, susceptible de contribuer a la regulation du marche international et des comportements de ses principaux acteurs, les entreprises.
A gay, HIV-positive Costco employee at the Inglewood warehouse was demoted, suffered a substantial pay cut and was disparaged by fellow workers in a video, all because of his sexual orientation, an attorney told a civil jury WednesdayBut in her opening remarks to the Los Angeles Superior Court...Costco lawyer Tara L. Wilcox said the company has a strict policy against discrimination and that no one at the Inglewood store ever targeted Valera for discrimination or derisionValera filed the lawsuit in October 2006, alleging sexual orientation discrimination, harassment and retaliation
...This report explores the key environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities identified by the UN Global Compact of human rights, labour standards in the supply chain, environment and anti-corruption... [It also presents] the EIRIS PRI [principles for responsible investment] toolkit...Companies have been slow to adopt policies and systems to address their human rights risks. Although awareness and action on the issue has increased, a large proportion of companies continue to face exposure to significant levels of unmitigated risk.
MEPs have overwhelmingly called on the European Commission to ensure that women are paid as much as men at work. They complain that the existing legislation - now in place for some 30 years - is well out of date, and want the EU to ensure employers stop discriminating - possibly under the threat of fines...Currently, women in Europe earn some 15 percent less than men on average across all sectors...
The MasterCard Foundation and [the non-profit] BRAC announced today a $19.6 million program to expand financial services to the poor across Uganda, benefiting approximately 2 million people...The MasterCard Foundation is working with innovators like BRAC to expand the access and reach of microfinance services to the poor, supporting their entrepreneurship so they can improve their own lives and communities, said Reeta Roy, President and CEO of The MasterCard Foundation...This initiative...will be our largest program in Africa, said Fazle Abed, Founder and Chairperson of BRAC. What we learn in Uganda, including how to provide savings to poor women and their communities, will help us rapidly scale up our operations to provide services to millions of people throughout Africa.
Letter to...Environment Secretary [Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India] requesting information [on steps taken by the Government of India] about...the Comprehensive Code...to regulate ship breaking activity in Alang [following an Order by the Supreme Court of India to formulate a Code to regulate activity at Alang, Gujarat]...the current exposure incidents in Alang and how many workers are suffering from asbestos diseases...the Committee of Technical Experts set up by the Supreme Court...to investigate the health of workers at the ship-breaking yard at Alang...found that 16 per cent of the workers suffered from asbestosis...In its affidavit dated 30 September 2008 filed in the Supreme Court, the Ministry...stated that the Code has been finalized...
Las 40 organizaciones sociales que se reunieron en Honduras para intercambiar experiencias y debatir sobre sus acciones para mejorar las condiciones laborales en la industria textil en America Latina, coincidieron en que el Estado es un actor clave para lograr sostenibilidad en los cambios hacia el cumplimiento de los derechos de ciudadanas y ciudadanos. Las fabricas y las marcas tambien son responsables, dijeron...La situacion es bien compleja y compartida por todos los paises donde se alojan las maquilas...
La justicia laboral hizo lugar al reclamo efectuado por una empleada, quien denuncio que la confinaron a una oficina pequena, sin ventilacion, en donde no le brindaron elementos de trabajo y aislada completamente del resto de sus companeros. El tribunal considero que la actitud de la empresa fue humillante y degradante por lo que ordeno que se la indemnice con una cifra cercana a 200.000 pesos [la causa es B.A.L. c./Italfina S.A. s./despido]. Los reclamos por acoso laboral tambien conocido como mobbing siguen multiplicandose en los juzgados del trabajo...
When people in Bhopal talk of the gas they are referring to the 40 tonnes of toxic chemicals that poured into the sky from an insecticide factory in the early hours of 3 December 1984, wreaking deadly havoc. Up to 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath, perhaps two and half times that in the subsequent months. But now, almost a quarter-century after the world's worst industrial accident, campaigners are fighting to help a "second generation" of suffering Bhopalis who they say are victims of contaminated water and political and corporate neglect... Having paid $470m (313m) in "full and final" settlement in 1989 as part of a deal brokered by the Indian government, UCC [Union Carbide (now part of Dow Chemical)] returned the leased plant site to the state government in 1998... Scott Wheeler, a Dow spokesman, insisted the company had not inherited the responsibilities of UCC. "[We] never owned or operated the former Bhopal plant site and this situation is not Dow's responsibility, accountability, or liability to bear..." he said.
Many NGOs helping victims of the Bihar flood found it easier to get corporate sponsorships thanks to an exclusive supply chain management website, connecting corporate social responsibility cells directly to the NGOs. The project, named Corporate Disaster Resource Network (CDRN,) was officially launched on November 7 in India ...helps corporates know how they can help disaster struck people by providing real time information on products and services needed during emergencies.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 12:00 PM to 02:00 PMThis Workshop for Ethics in Business will analyze the right to health, an element often overlooked in the study of human rights. The international community has begun to consider the "highest attainable standard of health" as a fundamental component of the human rights agenda...Speakers: Krista Bauer [General Electric], Meg Boulware [Baker & McKenzie], Maggie Kohn [Merck], Rohit Malpani [Oxfam America], Lisa Oldring [GAVI - Global Alliance for Vaccines & Immunization]Location: Global Policy Innovations - Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.170 East 64th Street - New York, NY
Gold mining is the fastest growing sector of Tanzania's economy...Yet ordinary Tanzanians are not benefi ting from this boom both because the government has implemented tax laws that are overly favourable to multinational mining companies and because of the practices of these companies...This report identifi es three severe problems with gold mining in Tanzania, namely: It provides the government with very low tax revenues It is subject to minimal governmental and popular democratic scrutiny and is associated with the problem of corruption People in the gold mining areas are barely benefi ting and many are being made poorer. [refers to Anglo American, AngloGold Ashanti, Barrick Gold]
El Banco Provincia inicio la capacitacion de 20 ejecutivos que seran los encargados de poner en marcha la primera Banca de Microcreditos de la Argentina, con el objetivo de brindar acceso a los microempresarios que no logran obtener financiacion en el sistema bancario tradicional...democratizar el acceso al credito es parte de nuestro rol social como banca publica.
Les Amis de la Terre saluent l'adoption par Dexia de la premiere politique sectorielle energetique d'une banque de financement francaise. Elle comporte des avancees importantes, comme l'objectif quantitatif de reduction des emissions de gaz a effet de serre des projets d'electricite finances par Dexia ou le rejet des projets pratiquant le torchage du gaz. La politique comporte cependant certaines faiblesses sur les fossiles et le nucleaire qu'il faudra corriger a l'avenir...Dexia..consacre plus de 40% de ses financements energetiques aux energies renouvelables, alors que la moyenne des banques francaises est a 10% seulement. [fait aussi reference a BNP Paribas, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole]
A more enlightened way of looking at it is that the economic downturn makes corporate integrity more important than ever; companies already under financial strain can ill afford to expose themselves to fresh risks by being lax on the environment or courting the anger of investors by flouting governance rules...In our second annual Good Companies Guide compiled in conjunction with Co-operative Asset Management, we have assessed the performance of all the shares in the FTSE 350 index, according to a range of social, environmental and ethical criteria. From this, we have identified the best 20 performers - and the worst.
A handbook for Employers and Business, provides information on issues such forced labour, human trafficking, prison labour, debt bondage, abuses in labour contract systems, overtime and different forms of coercion in employment...The handbook provides practical guidance for businesses of all kinds, including advice on what action they can take to prevent or rid forced labour in their supply chains.
Business in South Africa - with some marked exceptions - is not doing enough to help in the fight against HIV and Aids. Many businesses do not rate HIV and Aids very highly on their risk schedules and do not, therefore, see the need to get actively involved. This is the view of the chief executive of the South African Business Coalition on HIV and Aids (SABCOHA), Brad Meers..."A lot of businesses do not see the need to be a member of an organisation like SABCOHA. HIV, among many organisations, is not seen as very high among its risk schedules. They look at credit risk, paying the overdraft. If HIV comes in the top 10, you are lucky." [refers to De Beers, Anglo Platinum (part of Anglo American)]
[A] grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on state charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners infederal detention centersCheney's indictment on a charge of engaging in an organized criminal activity criticizes [his] investment in the Vanguard Group, which holds interests in the private prison companies running the federal detention centers. It accuses Cheney of a conflict of interest and "at least misdemeanor assaults" on detainees because of his link to the prison companies[A] spokeswoman for Cheney declined to comment on Tuesday[also refers to The GEO Group]
Since the killings of 17 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater security contractors in Baghdad's Nisoor Square...lack of accountability of contractors has been a central issue...While yesterday's signing...of a[n]...agreement that reportedly expands the scope of Iraqi jurisdiction over U.S. government personnel and contractors is a step forward, much remains to be done by the U.S. government to hold its contractors to account. Today, a leading human rights organization unveiled a detailed, multi-phased blueprint for the next administration to effectively end private contractor impunity, in Iraq and elsewhere..."It's been over four years since Abu Ghraib and more than a year since Nisoor Square, and we are still waiting for prosecutions of the contractors implicated in these abuses..." said Massimino [Human Rights First's director]
Violations of trade union rights and discrimination against migrant workers must be addressed in Jordan, according to a new ITUC [International Trade Union Confederation] report...The...report particularly criticises the lack of substantial progress on workers' rights and working conditions in the export processing zones in Jordan ...Mistreatment is common practice, including long working hours without payment of overtime...The report also refers to issues related to child labour, discrimination and forced labour...In its conclusions the report strongly recommends the putting in place of implementation mechanisms for the right to organise and collective bargaining as well as increased labour inspection in all areas.
In theory, the [US] ban [on Burmese rubies]...should have a significant impact on the trade in gemstones, particularly rubies, since Burma is the world's largest producer. In practice, however, some jewellers and traders see Washington's clampdown as futile... Somchai Phorchindarak, chief executive of the Bangkok Gems and Jewellery Fair, says the US is missing its intended target, punishing instead small Burmese miners and farmers who search for gems, and the cutters and manufacturers who turn them into jewellery abroad... Ronald Abram, whose eponymous business is one of Asia's leading jewellers, also draws a distinction between African blood diamonds and Burmese rubies... Jewelers of America...says customer needs can be met without Burma. [also refers to Cartier (part of Richemont), Bulgari]
A decade ago the shoe giant was slammed as a sweatshop operator. Today it's taking responsibility to heart. Will it work?...Nike responded to the Malaysian scandal by admitting "serious breaches" of its code of conduct, reimbursing the workers, and paying to relocate them. Then Nike called in representatives from its 30 contract factories in Malaysia for a tense conversation about enforcing labor standards...Nike has been [also] particularly inventive at weaving environmental awareness into its design process, rating each sneaker according to a sustainability index..."I'm proud of what we've accomplished, but we're still not where we need to be," says Nike's current CEO, Mark Parker.
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