Nokia recently raised its voice on the issue of conflict minerals by publishing a policy that spells out its stand. The Finnish phone maker joins other consumer electronics companies in the corporate responsibility of avoiding conflict minerals in their supply…
A group of nearly 100 leading pension funds, asset managers, banks and other institutional investors have today written to the chief executives of the world's largest 415 public companies urging them to accelerate efforts to deploy cost-effective emission reduction measures…
Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest China-based contractors, has boosted its workers’ wages by around 25% after been subjected to inspections by a US labour rights group. Foxconn, which is owned by a Taiwanese group, reported that it has boosted wages…
La quasi totalité du gotha minier mondial était-là les 6-7-8-9 février 2012. Dans ce Davos minier, difficile d’imaginer que les décideurs réunis au Cap, comme chaque année depuis 18 ans, étaient en guerre. Une guerre économique feutrée. Car au-delà des…
L'organisme chargé de réguler le commerce des diamants dans le monde a autorisé une nouvelle société zimbabwéenne à vendre des pierres de mines de Marange, un site de l'est du Zimbabwe o๠de graves atteintes aux droits de l'homme avaient…
Le numéro 1 du négoce de matière première, Glencore, est aussi le premier fournisseur de blé du Programme alimentaire mondial (PAM). Oubliées les bonnes intentions du PAM de se fournir sur les marchés locaux et auprès de petits paysans. The…
Today, 13 pharmaceutical companies, the U.S., U.K. and U.A.E governments, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Bank and other global health organisations announced a new, coordinated push to accelerate progress toward eliminating or controlling 10 neglected tropical diseases…
Apple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of its iPhones and iPads. The company's public image took a…
Une chanteuse malgache accuse le légendaire fabriquant de guitares américain d'utiliser du bois abbatu illégalement à Madagascar. Razia Saà¯d, chanteuse malgache, se bat contre le fabriquant américain de guitares Gibson, épaulée par l'ONG Friends of the Earth. Le 19 janvier dernier,…
A group of US investment institutions have filed shareholder resolutions at 40 companies calling on them to report on their spending on direct lobbying and lobbying via trade associations. The group wants greater transparency on how companies influence regulation and…
