L’Association Africaine de défense des Droits de l’Homme, ASADHO en sigle, dénonce le l’accord conclu par le Gouvernement congolais avec les multinationales Freeport et Lundin Holding dans le cadre de la Joint -Venture Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM). En effet, depuis…
Pensioenfonds PNO Media, the €3bn industry-wide pension fund for the Dutch media sector, has excluded US supermarket giant Wal-Mart from its investment universe because of labour law violations. “After careful consideration we have decided to add Wal-Mart to the PNO…
There are plenty of revelations in the annual sustainability report recently released by Toyota. By and large, the company is as ecologically-minded as a multi-national corporation can be, but as we've touched on before, not everything is as squeaky clean…
Six pharmaceutical companies and several governments have pledged more than $150m in medicines and funding over five years to tackle some of the most neglected diseases. The debilitating illnesses — including leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and sleeping sickness — affect 1bn…
Press Release | Geneva (Switzerland), 11 October 2010 The telecommunication sector is less controversial than others but has to increase its offering of sustainable products and services for being a leader, according to a report released today by Geneva-based ethical…
Plus de cinq ans après avoir entamé le processus d'accréditation syndicale, les employés du magasin Walmart du Plateau, dans le secteur de Hull de la Ville de Gatineau, ont obtenu une convention collective. Comme dans le cas de la succursale…
Signer la charte « Les Elles de l’Auto » pour attirer et retenir davantage de femmes Féminiser les équipes en se fixant des objectifs chiffrés, mobiliser le management autour de cet objectif, piloter le taux de féminisation, tels sont les…
Car manufacturer Ford are currently working on a new biofuel that will examine algae's suitability as a greener fuel source. Ford scientists are currently testing the suitability of renewable energy sources, such as algae, as potential automotive biofuels in an…
L'Institut national de l'énergie solaire (Ines) et Toyota (Toyota est un constructeur automobile, originaire du Japon. Le siège du groupe est situé dans la ville de Toyota (qui a...)Â ont inauguré lundi 4 octobre une station solaire pour véhicules hybrides…
ArcelorMittal and Posco are leading $80 billion in planned spending in India that would vault the country ahead of Japan as the second-biggest steelmaker. Standing in the way are farmers and their water supply. The farmers refuse to move from…
