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Campaign Round-Up (Issue 93)
War on Want and the price of cut flowers, finding a voice for the public sector, and who is really paying for your affordable supermarket food?
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An opportunity not to be
missed
Stephen Hale of the Green Alliance on why governments, businesses and individuals will need to all play their part in reducing their impacts on the world’s climate.
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Campaign round-up (Issue
92)
Save Our Selves launches, London businesses work together and banks challenged on investments in companies carrying out human rights violations.
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Healthcare news round-up
(Issue 92)
Drinks manufacturers join to increase awareness of responsible drinking, and Vodafone Group Foundation funds the extension of the Measles initiative
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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
86
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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