Environmentalists want you to buy organic roses, and human-rights groups advocate conflict-free diamonds. Now, just in time for Valentine's Day, jewelry retailers are stepping up a campaign that aims to discourage the mining and sale of "dirty gold." A group…
Terre riche en minerais, le territoire de Walikale au Nord-Kivu, en tire des ressources pour développer lentement son tissu économique. Des opérateurs miniers comme GMB et MPC réinvestissent sur place dans des initiatives utiles pour la population. Le long de…
The Food & Beverage industry is consolidating its ethical record thanks to labour and environmental initiatives, but it has to fight hard to demonstrate the social utility of its products, states a report published today by Geneva-based ethical reputation research…
La vague de violence qui s’est abattue sur le Kenya à la suite des élections présidentielles a été qualifiée, par bon nombre, de nature tribale ou ethnique. Toutefois, pour les analystes de ce pays d’Afrique de l’Est, c’est l’économie de…
Dix pour cent de la réserve mondiale du pétrole se trouverait en RDC qui compte trois bassins sédimentaires à intéràªt pétrolier certain. D’abord le bassin côtier à l’Ouest sur le littoral de l’océan Atlantique à Muanda avec une production de…
I thought you’d be interested in this. IBM’s at it again, doing things that are legal but unethical. They told thousands of employees that to keep the same income they must work lots of overtime. Further, the article says employees…
European natural stone importers acknowledge need for improvement of labour conditions. The import of granite and other natural stone products into the Netherlands, Sweden, Finland and other European countries is increasing. Granite is much used for public infrastructural projects, like…
Chevron the US-based energy group, is to contribute $30m in cash over three years to the United Nations-backed Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria, in a pioneering move to lend direct corporate support to international health programmes. Along…
At the time when China’s largest oil company, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), is showing a substantial increase in assets, its listed daughter company PetroChina [NYSE:PTR] is confronted by an uphill battle. The growing uneasy of institutional investors and pension…
European regulators raided some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies yesterday in an inquiry into whether they conspired to keep up the price of drugs after patents expired. Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and Sanofi-Aventis were among those that confirmed they had…
