• Top 10 Corporate Responsibility Stories of 2012

    Prof. Andrew Crane, Schulich School of Business

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  • AfDB and Kenya Sign Multi-Million Dollar Loan Agreement to Finance Hydroelectric Power Project and Enhance Higher Education

    African Development Bank (AfDB)

    The African Development Bank (AfDB) on Thursday signed two loan agreements with the Government of Kenya amounting to millions of dollars to finance a major regional hydroelectric power project and the enhancement of the country’s higher education system.  more[...]

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  • Water Footprints: Lessons from Kenya’s Floriculture Sector

    Prof. Wayne Visser, Kaleidoscope Futures

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  • African leaders urged to invest in jobs, infrastructure and protecting development gains

    African Development Bank (AfDB)

    n unprecedented gathering of experts in Kigali, present and former African Heads of State urged business, community and political leaders to help turn the continent’s impressive growth into economic opportunities for ordinary citizens.  more[...]

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  • Africa’s social diversity: an asset for democracy

    United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

    African leaders, international organizations and civil society representatives will meet in Botswana’s capital, Gaborone, for the next three days to discuss Africa’s diverse social fabric and how it can serve as an asset for democracy and development.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Social dialogue needed to prevent further violence in SA mines, says ILO

    As an inquiry begins into the fatal August shooting of dozens of striking miners in South Africa, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has called for high-level social dialogue in order to prevent further violence and unrest.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Report Slams Failure to Prevent Toxic Waste Dumping in West Africa

    Amnesty International

    Trafigura, the multinational company behind the 2006 dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, resulting in over 100,000 people seeking medical assistance, must be criminally investigated in the UK, Amnesty International and Greenpeace Netherlands conclude in a major new report released today.  more[...]

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  • FAO releases first status report on urban gardening in Africa

    Food and Agriculture Organization

    Africa's urban population is growing faster than that of any other region, but many of its cities are not keeping pace with the increasing demand for food that comes with that growth. A new FAO publication says policymakers need to act now to ensure that African cities will be "green" enough to meet their nutrition and income needs in a sustainable way.  more[...]  login_required

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  • South-South Exchange of Know-How is Essential for Africa’s Economic Future, Says AfDB President

    African Development Bank (AfDB)

    South-South investment and exchange of know-how are key sources of growth and prosperity in Africa – and Huajian Group of China’s experience in Ethiopia is really edifying. That was the message the President of the African Development Bank Group, Donald Kaberuka, gave in his address at the opening of a high-level seminar on September 7 in Tunis.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Education, Community, and Social Equality

    Perihan Abdel Ghaly, Arab African International Bank
    Arab African International Bank

    Arab African International Bank believes in investment in youth for a better future and realizes that its influence as a leading private institution has grown in parallel with its competitiveness. Arab African International Bank was the first bank in Egypt and the region to launch an education program for undergraduates in various universities across the country and offers awards for creative ideas.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Food Security for Africa: an urgent global Challenge

    Albert Sasson, European Commission

    On September 14, 2010, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) published its estimates concerning the number of people suffering from hunger in 2010: 925 million. This figure was below the 1,020 billion in 2009, but it was higher than the number reached before the 2008 global food crisis. The 2010 figure corresponded to 13.5% of the world population, while the 2015 objective (millennium development goal (MDG) number 1) was 8%. The FAO concluded that we were still far from achieving MDG 1, that is, halving the number of hungry people worldwide by 2015.  more[...]  login_required

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    Albert Sasson, European Commission 
     
  • South Africa: ITUC Condemns Lonmin Killings

    International Trade Union Confoderation

    The ITUC has described the wave of violence at South Africa’s Lonmin Marikana platinum mine as appalling, with as many as 36 killed yesterday when police opened fire on striking miners. 10 people had previously been killed in the past week as violence at the mine escalated.  more[...]  login_required

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