Although it is not usual for Prime Ministers to make time in their busy schedules to meet activists, Sheik Hasina of Bangladesh made an exception to the rule and met a human rights activist from Sweden on a recent Monday…
Après l'ouverture récente de son site angolais, Nestlé poursuit sa stratégie de développement en inaugurant une usine en RD Congo. L'objectif est de fournir une offre mieux adaptée aux goà»ts locaux et d'utiliser davantage de matières premières produites localement. Nestlé…
La justice franà§aise a confirmé mardi toutes les condamnations pénales, dont celle du groupe Total qui devra payer 375.000 euros d’amende, pour la gigantesque marée noire déclenchée par le naufrage du pétrolier Erika en 1999 au large de la Bretagne…
La pression sur la réputation éthique des entreprises suisses s’est maintenue en aoà»t: elles affichaient en effet un ratio de 45% d’informations positives (55% de négatives), alors que le benchmark global (composé de 600 sociétés) atteignait 52%. L’Allemagne a été…
Unilever, as a founding member of the Sustainable Agriculture Initiative (SAI) Platform, sees biodiversity as an integral part of their Sustainable Living Plan. This plan aims to align economic growth with improved livelihoods and environmental protection, and understands the importance…
MasterCard and WFP have announced a global partnership that will use digital innovation to help people around the world break the cycle of hunger and poverty. This game-changing partnership will combine MasterCard’s expertise in electronic payment systems with WFP’s global…
Cisco and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) recently reached an agreement that will allow any United Nations (UN) organization to access Cisco’s networking technology solutions for emergency communications assistance during UN disaster relief missions.This…
At Google’s I/O developer conference in June, the company held a “Develop for Good” hackathon as a collaboration between the I/O conference and Google’s philanthropy arm, Google.org. On Friday, Google picked the winners from the hackathon in three main categories:…
L’entreprise Georg Fischer et Caritas Suisse ont convenu de coopérer dans le domaine de l’approvisionnement en eau potable. A cet effet, la Fondation Clean Water de Georg Fischer met à disposition un montant de 1 million de francs. Cette somme…
You may have heard by now that Samsung is the latest target of labor rights groups who have shifted their focus on multinational activity in China into overdrive. The proximate cause of this increased activity is, of course, the success…
