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Business Security Worldwide: The New Compliance Risk Atlas of Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn
Nicole Knapp, Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn (DB) is an international group active in more than 130 countries that offers mobility and logistics services worldwide. This gives rise to complex challenges in its conduct toward business partners and employees. The DB Compliance Risk Atlas is designed to create a clear framework for compliant action in this regard. more[...]

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Sartex Training Center – Renaissance for Desperate Youth

Rachid Zarrad, Sartex
Sartex

Since its independence in 1956 – and thanks to the wisdom of the former leader President Habib Bourguiba – Tunisia has focused its recovery strategy on the implementation of an education that can generate a solid base of human capital that is able to meet the changing needs of a developing nation. In just a few years, the education of children aged 6 to 16 years has become compulsory and free – this small North African country allocates more than 25 percent of its state budget to education and teaching. In the years after independence until the late 1980s, the development of a socio-economic balance brought integration and employment through a professional training of rare trades – even for those who did not have access to higher education. more[...]

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More Than Just a Bank

Mara Simonini, Banca Popolare di Sondrio
Banca Popolare di Sondrio

Our way of being a bank also involves our interest in the world of culture. And if “promoting culture” is an ambitious task for us, then we dedicate our resources to and make a commitment toward creating opportunities for interaction between the general public and the world of knowledge, history, and art. more[...]

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Unlocking Possibilities: A Step Toward Building Resourceful Citizens

Yashna Islam, Green Delta Insurance
Syed Najmus Saquib, Green Delta Insurance
Green Delta Insurance Co. Ltd.

It is noteworthy how, in the past few years, Bangladesh has seen rapid progress in many sectors, which was unthinkable even a decade ago. Bangladesh is showing consistent growth every year. We are being viewed as “The Next Asian Tiger” worldwide. Among all the positive news, the absence of human rights in many cases is hindering our development as a nation. Women and children as well as poverty-stricken people are always the most deprived ones when it comes to human rights. more[...]

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Improving the Quality of Life for Disabled People

Elena Zhuravleva, Transaero Airlines
Transaero Airlines

Disabled passengers want to travel and wish to do it on their own. “Our objective is to guarantee them their respective right and to do our best to ensure their safety and convenience when using air transport. This is a comprehensive objective. It is important to combine the efforts of business, the state, and the non commercial sector to create a barrier-free environment for disabled passengers, for whom it is of crucial importance,” says Olga Pleshakova, Chief Executive Officer, Transaero Airlines. more[...]

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CSR in South Africa

Editorial Team

Professor Ralph Hamann is Research Director for the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. His areas of expertise include Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2006 he was involved as a researcher at the UN Global Compact Learning Forum, which took place in Ghana. For the UN Global Compact International Yearbook, Hamann highlights the “paradox for CSR in South Africa” and beyond. more[...]

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The UN Global Compact in Africa

Editorial Team

Different activities regarding the UN Global Compact are described in selected countries, like Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Ghana and South Africa. The main topics are renewable energy resources and biodiversity, human rights and anti-corruption. more[...]

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Philanthropy As an Integral Part of CSR

Jeffrey Revels, TMS Group
TMS Group

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) encompasses many different components across a myriad of industries in both the public and private sectors. One of the most demonstrative aspects of CSR involves philanthropy, which not only includes a commitment of monetary support, but a personal involvement in volunteerism, too. These much-cherished values represent the cornerstone of our year in 2012 and future CSR endeavors. more[...]

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Increased Road Safety – All over the World

Julia Glogowski, Volkswagen
Volkswagen AG

Volkswagen produces vehicles of the highest quality and reliability, resulting in the highest level of safety for customers. But closing a sale is not the end of our responsibilities. On the contrary, whether our customers are in Mumbai, Beijing, or Wolfsburg, we provide them with targeted training to help them feel safe while driving. The worrying figures in international accident statistics, especially from emerging economies, have led us to respond in this manner. The Volkswagen Group is actively engaging with various traffic-training programs tailored to the individual markets – our motto is: “Every traffic-related death is one too many.” The Group includes the German market in these efforts, of course. The Autostadt in Wolfsburg – which offers a world of experience in these matters as well as a communication platform for all things to do with mobility – has a “Learn Park” for children 5 to 11 years old and offers them the chance to obtain a “child driver’s license.” Meanwhile, in the “safety training track,” parents experience first-hand that a cautious driving style not only increases safety but is also good for the environment. more[...]

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Pre Organic Cotton Program: A Shift To Organic Farming

Itochu

In September 2012, more than 150 delegates from corporations, international organizations, governments, and NGOs around the world gathered at Business, The MDGs and Beyond – a forum run as a side event to the UN General Assembly in New York. ITOCHU Corporation represented the Japanese corporations that are members of the UNDP-led Business Call to Action (BCtA) and spearheaded a panel at the first session, “Innovative Business Models for Sustainable Development.” At the forum, ITOCHU presented the Pre-Organic Cotton Program, an initiative of its Textile Company, which contributes to overall development in the cotton farming communities in India through poverty reduction and improvements in farmers’ health and the farming environment. more[...]

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Changing The Lives of 10,000 Children

Scott Dille, Novo Nordisk
Camilla Crone Jensen, Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk

Living with type 1 diabetes is challenging – even more so for children in developing countries, where having diabetes puts their lives at even greater risk. more[...]

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Addressing Nutritional Challenges Through Micronutrient Fortification

Susan Steinhagen, Nestlé
Nestlé S.A.

Nestlé’s ambition is to be recognized as the leading Nutrition, Health and Wellness Company, helping to enhance the quality of life of our consumers by bringing the best and most relevant products to people, wherever they are, whatever their needs, throughout their lives. more[...]

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Mundial del Barrio

Lilines Urriola Herrera, medcom
medcom

In 1997, after his social reinstatement, community leader Hector Brands decided to start a summer soccer league in the small town of San Felipe. The league comprised four teams with 70 kids from that area. The purpose of the league was to try to occupy the participants’ spare time during the summer and to keep them from violence and the use of drugs present in that area of the city. It was through soccer that the children and young adults started learning about peaceful coexistence, tolerance, and the benefits of living without violence. more[...]

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Combating Child Labor in the Supply Chain in India

Steffen Kurzawa, Bayer CropScience
Bayer Group

Child labor cannot simply be eliminated by decree. To this day it remains deeply rooted in many societies. In particular, subsistence farmers still frequently resort to child labor to manage their fields. Implementing the effective abolition of child labor may be laborious and time-consuming for businesses if child labor is the norm. Yet pursuing this approach is worthwhile in every way, as shown by an example from India. more[...]

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Building Awareness and Going the Extra Mile: Human Rights in Focus

Green Delta Insurance Co. Ltd.

As the foremost non-life insurance brand of Bangladesh, Green Delta Insurance has many responsibilities to fulfill when it comes to CSR. Participating in activities for the betterment of our environment, Human Rights, culture, sports, and society in general has been a prominently visible trait of the company. The history concerning CSR at Green Delta Insurance goes back years – to a time before CSR became the catch-all concept it is today. more[...]

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