Governance
Common destiny, uncommon urgency
George Bernard Shaw famously quipped that England and America are two countries divided by a common language. Today sustainability should be uniting Europe and America in common endeavour, but is it really?
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Responsible Investing
News, CCB 101
A round up of the Responsible Investing news stories from August and September 2008.
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Ethics & Human
Rights, CCB 101
A round up of the Ethics & Human Rights news stories from August and September 2008.
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Shanghai Scribbles
Thought-leader Simon Zadek on emerging sustainable development challenges.
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Being seen to be clean
Membership of voluntary initiatives is all well and good as oil and mining companies try to clean up their act but detailed auditing is necessary for real change to happen, says Diarmid O’Sullivan of Global Witness.
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Human Rights News
Round-Up (Issue 95)
All sectors must respect the human rights of their employees and should assess the human rights impact of their operations.
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The limits of voluntary
initiatives
Can voluntary initiatives on human rights really ensure that workers are not exploited, and labour standards upheld, or is government regulation the only way forward?
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True accountability needs
transparency
All sectors - whether governmental, voluntary or corporate - have a lot to learn about true accountability: they must acknowledge the need for transparency and they should make fighting corruption a priortity.
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Human rights news
round-up issue 86
Among the stories covered, the UN Norms on Human Rights are a "distraction" which should be sidelined in efforts to develop a better framework of human rights responsibilities for business, says an interim report from UN Special Representative John Ruggie.
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'Recalibrating' reporting
requirements
Welcome to the wacky world of top level government decision-making, when careful deliberation since March 1998 by company law reform experts is torn up in a Friday afternoon brainstorm by speech writers and spin doctors.
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News round-up (Feb/Mar)
Initiatives to improve governance focus on empowering investors by providing better information. After all, the best governance system in the world won't work without active investors.
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