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New rules, new expectations
Although the new UK Companies Act broadens directors’ duties beyond the traditional short-term profit motive, there is some way to go before companies are held fully accountable for their social and environmental impacts, argues Simon McRae of War on Want.
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Campaign round-up
December 2006/January 2007
The commercialisation of childhood, the production of more affordable medicines for poorer countries, and calls for Shell to use its profits to clear up pollution, are the campaigns for the first Briefing of 2007.
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Campaign round-up -
October/November 2006
Using Fairtrade products at work, starting a business, and road safety for children are the hot topics this time round.
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Campaigns: June/July
Reducing packaging, reigning in the aviation industry and putting a stop to censorship on the net are all on the agenda.
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Campaigns round-up issue
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The no Dirty Gold Campaign has cajoled some of the top jewellery retailers into pledging to move away form "dirty" gold sales whilst campaigners are calling for oil giant Total to pull out of Burma. Fairtrade Fortnight took place from 6-19 March to encourage businesses and consumers to sell or buy Fairtrade products.
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Campaigners unite against
poverty
In a special feature, former Briefing managing editor Oliver Balch reports from Porto Allegre, Brazil, where he discovers activists are targeting their campaigns against the private sector's rising collective influence.
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Education campaigns
A group of prominent business leaders gathered at the end of September to launch a national education trust, aimed at improving the quality school-leavers seeking employment. Meanwhile The National Literacy Trust, a new independent charity aiming to improve reading and writing standards in the UK, was launched on October 7, with support from WH Smith.
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Collective campaigns: the
shape of things to come
Briefing finds campaigners are beginning to see the benefits of speaking with a collective voice in the fight for column inches
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Up to any good in the
community?
June sees the start of the 1993 UK Volunteers Week, as a revamped Employee Involvement Award is launched.
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Pathways to higher
standards
The state of the nation's schools continues to dominate the headlines. A new campaign to get businesses more involved, previewed in the last edition of Community Affairs Briefing, was fully launched in May.
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Aiming higher at school
Britain is falling behind its international competitors: are weaknesses in the education system partly to blame?
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