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Bringing Sustainable Change to the Garment Supply Chain

Félix Poza Peña
Inditex

The global presence of Inditex gives us a real opportunity to bring positive and lasting change to the garment supply chain in a way that fully aligns with our commitment to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. We work with more than 1,700 suppliers and more than 6,000 factories globally, each supplying to one or more of our eight brands, which include Zara, Massimo Dutti, and Bershka. This presence places us close to the heart of communities in numerous different countries. more[...]

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Audi's Contribution to Integrating Refugees

Jasmin Lotze
Hannah van Basshuysen, AUDI
Audi AG

In response to the refugee crisis in Europe, AUDI AG provided €1 million in September 2015 to offer immediate support for projects at the production sites in Brussels, Gyor, Ingolstadt, and Neckarsulm. The initial focus was to provide immediate help to the many people coming to Europe at the time. To open up new opportunities for refugees in Germany, aid projects today focus primarily on speech acquisition, professional training, and cultural integration. more[...]

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Forging a Generation of Responsible Leaders

Lilian Furrer
Adecco Group

The Adecco Group’s 'CEO for One Month' enables young people from across the globe to experience the responsibilities, challenges, and excitement of helping to lead a major multinational business for one month. More than simply an opportunity to gain valuable experience, it aims to forge a generation of responsible leaders imbued with the values that underpin the UN Global Compact Principles. more[...]

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Margaret Thatcher’s unacknowledged grandchild

Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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The beautiful game? You bet!

Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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$37.7 Million in Contributions to Strengthen Governance and Economic Growth

World Bank

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Transition Fund recently received $37.7 million from Canada, the United Kingdom, and France to support good governance, sustainable growth, and greater employment opportunities for youth. more[...]

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Film Review 'The City Below'

Prof. Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard

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The Times they are A-Changing

Anders Dahlbeck, ActionAid

In 2008, ActionAid started campaigning to remove biofuels targets that are having a detrimental effect on poor and marginalised communities around the world. We did so in response to calls from communities and partners we work with in the global south, for whom the impact of biofuels production was becoming untenable. Countless cases of land grabs by multinationals to produce industrial biofuels for export to rich countries were the main issue. more[...] login_required

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Global Compact International Yearbook 2012

Dr. Elmer Lenzen

With over 8,700 corporate participants and other stakeholders from over 130 countries, the UN Global Compact is the largest voluntary corporate responsibility initiative in the world. „I hope these diverse expressions of support for the UN’s global mission will inspire many more businesses to follow this path and bring corporate sustainability to true scale“, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in the 2012 edition of the Global Compact International Yearbook. Edited by the German publishing house macondo the new yearbook offers insights to political as well as sustainability issues. more[...]

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Implementing UNGC Principles in our CSR

Francesca Carnesella, Camposol and Copeinca
Copeinca

COPEINCA was the first Peruvian fishing company to publish an audited Sustainability Report in 2005. The company strongly believes that to guarantee business sustainability, there is an indispensable requirement in assuring that the ethical principle of respecting persons and the environment should be fulfilled by acting in accordance with the social responsibility guidelines of our organization as well as the Principles of the Global Compact. more[...] login_required

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Migration and Global Environmental Change - Future Challenges and Opportunities

Editorial Team

This report considers migration in the context of environmental change over the next 50 years. The scope of this report is international: it examines global migration trends, but also internal migration trends particularly within low-income countries, which are often more important in this context. more[...] login_required

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Rethinking the Role of the State in Finance - Global Financial Development Report 2013

World Bank

The worldwide financial crisis brought into relief the role of financial systems in economic development and poverty reduction. The World Bank’s first-ever Global Financial Development Report contributes to the policy debates on this topic, building on new datasets, surveys, research and country experience, emphasizing the perspective of low- and middle-income countries. The report re-examines a basic question highlighted by the crisis: what is the proper role of the state in financial development? more[...] login_required

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Deutsche Telekom Introduces Women ’s Quota

Mechthilde Maier, Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom AG

Deutsche Telekom has been the first DAX 30 company to establish a quota for women: By the end of 2015, 30 percent of upper and middle management positions in the company are to be filled by women. This is a Group-internal requirement and applies worldwide. René Obermann, Chairman of the Board of Management of Telekom, summed it up as follows: “Taking on more women in management positions is a matter of social fairness and, above all, a categorical necessity for our success. Having a greater number of women at the top will simply enable us to operate better.” more[...]

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The Prince’s Trust

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Talk with Richard Howitt MEP, Rapporteur for CSR

Member of the European Parliament and Rapporteur for CSR, Richard Howitt, offers his insights into how the concept of CSR can push forward higher social and environmental standards in business and be used as a lever to combat emerging societal challenges. CSR Europe Association talked to him. more[...]

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