• A Promise of Security

    MD. Moniruzzaman Khan
    Green Delta Insurance Co. Ltd.

    Although CSR has become a part of operations for a growing number of firms in Bangladesh, Green Delta Insurance Company has taken it a step further through its innovative approach. What started with the launch of the Ami Achi (“I’m here”) campaign on December 16, 2016, is now being developed into a full-scale philanthropic movement. Aligning with the Principles of the United Nations Global Compact as well as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Ami Achi aims to better the lives of people living below the poverty line while especially focusing on underprivileged children. Sadly, more often than not, these people are ignored, when in reality they need the most attention and care. This groundbreaking innovation of Green Delta plans to change that by working for unfortunate people and providing them with the help and guidance they deserve as human beings.  more[...]  login_required

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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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  • How Does Industry 4.0 Affect Growth and Employment?

    With the digitilization and global linking of production – the “fourth Industrial Revolution” – the specter of unemployment in the technology sector has entered central stage again.  more[...]

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  • Faster, More Efficient, More Sustainable – The Production Plant of the Future

    Dr Peter F. Tropschuh, Audi AG
    Audi AG

    Digital integration will play a central role in the modern production plant over the next few years: The “factory of the future” – also known as Industry 4.0 or the Smart Factory – not only increases the ability of machines to control processes faster and more efficiently; it also results in greater integration of machinery and humans.  more[...]

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  • “There’s no point in just checking off a list”

    Editorial Team

    Fairtrade wants to create a new label for textiles. Clothing made from fairly produced cotton is currently available, but further processing only has to comply with core labor guidelines of the International Labour Organization that prohibit violations such as child labor or forced labor. Going forward, the whole production chain will have to comply with fair standards, including conditions for the workers in the factories.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Horsing around with our food

    Prof. Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard

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    Prof. Dirk Matten, Hewlett-Packard 
     
  • When Job Earnings are Behind Poverty Reduction

    World Bank

    Improvement in labor market conditions has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty success stories observed in the last decade – that is the primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 countries where poverty increased substantially.  more[...]

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  • Social Responsibility Networks in the Banana Industry

    Prof. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT

    There is evidence that in the last two decades, international civil society has played a dynamic role in improving environmental and working conditions in regions such as Latin America. Such improvements have occurred side by side with indications that trade liberalization and the decline of the state’s regulatory role since the 1980s and the advent of globalization in the 1990s has exacerbated inequalities, social exclusion, and triggered environmental degradation.  more[...]  login_required

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    Prof. Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Universidad EAFIT 
     
  • Mining companies committed to UN Human Rights principles, new survey reveals

    Mazars

    New research released today indicates that listed mining and resources companies across the world are keen to comply with the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, which were officially adopted one year ago, but must keep up the momentum in order to maintain public confidence in their efforts.  more[...]  login_required

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  • Wind Power: Real Energy, Real Jobs

    Philip Warburg

    Wind power could supply 20% of U.S. electricity and generate hundreds of thousands of new jobs per year – unless Congress kills the wind tax credit. Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been outspoken in deriding President Obama’s efforts to give wind and solar power the prominence they deserve on America’s energy agenda. “In place of real energy, Obama has focused on an imaginary world where government-subsidized windmills and solar panels could power the economy,” he wrote in a March editorial in Columbus Dispatch.  more[...]

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    Philip Warburg
     
  • ACI Contributes Where Others Do Not

    Editorial Team

    Following its core values, ACI seeks to play a part in improving the quality of people’s lives through the creation of new jobs and offerings services to people. Based on this belief, the Medical Information and Research Team as well as the Medical Services Department of ACI Pharmaceuticals partnered with CARE Bangladesh – an international development agency – to initiate a healthcare project under the name Amar Shasthya, which stands for “my health.”  more[...]  login_required

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  • Sustainable Ship Recycling in Bangladesh

    Editorial Team

    The aim of the project is to focus on the current problems related to environment, health, safety, and social aspects of the ship recycling industry in Bangladesh. As part of the project, TÜV Rheinland conducts awareness-building programs and helps companies to build capacity as well as optimize their work techniques so that they comply with international standards and best practices.  more[...]  login_required

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  • CEAP Amazonia – Petrobras Environmental Excellence Center in Amazonia

    Petrobras

    CEAP Amazonia (Centro de Excelência Ambiental da Petrobras na Amazônia; Petrobras Environmental Excellence Center in Amazonia) – one of the most outstanding projects by Petrobras in the north region – has a crucial strategic importance, since it will decisively contribute to the reduction of oil industry intervention-related risks in Amazonia.  more[...]

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  • Factory of the Future – The Otto Grameen Textile Company

    Editorial Team

    Over two million people work in the textile industry in Bangladesh, with women accounting for 80 percent of the workforce in clothing factories. The clothing industry is one of the region’s key employers and plays an important role as a source of income for the poorest strata of society. These people need the jobs, yet all too often they have to work in textile factories under poor safety conditions for wages that do not even cover their basic needs.  more[...]  login_required

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