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  • ‘The travel industry is at the front line of human trafficking. It must act’

    Barbra Anderson, (Jan 22, 2019)

    Barbra Anderson of Destination Better says that by having robust programmes in place, hotels will be better placed to address the risks of participating in modern slavery

  • Hotels try to turn the tide on human trafficking 

    Amy Brown, (Jan 20, 2019)

    Traffickers often rely on hotels to sustain their operations using them to house their victims or sell forced services, but now many in the industry are taking steps to tackle the problem. Amy Brown reports

  • A year of straddling the fault lines on human rights

    John Morrison, (Dec 18, 2018)

    John Morrison of the Institute for Human Rights and Business says 2018 saw business find common cause with civil society on fundamentals such as rule of law and freedom of expression

  • ‘Gross inequality is the tragedy of the commons we must face up to in 2019’

    Caroline Rees, (Dec 18, 2018)

    Caroline Rees of Shift says says CSR commitments are no longer enough. Companies must make deep structural changes to attack the root causes of inequality

  • ‘Philanthropy won't be enough to address the ‘people’ part of the Global Goals’

    Sara Blackwell, (Nov 22, 2018)

    Sara Blackwell of Shift says companies have been slow to grasp the truly positive results of working to address adverse impacts on people’s basic rights in everything they do as a business

  • Comment: ‘Benchmarking has started a race to the top on human rights reporting’

    Magdalena Kettis, (May 18, 2018)

    The Corporate Human Rights Benchmark has led to a surge in human rights reporting since it was launched a year ago, but the failure of more than a quarter of companies to engage is cause for deep concern, says Magdalena Kettis of Sweden’s Nordea Bank

  • 'Commonwealth countries must join forces to defeat modern slavery'

    Andrew Forrest, (Apr 30, 2018)

    Andrew Forrest of Walk Free Foundation and Lord Carlile of Berriew argue that the UK leadership on tackling human rights abuse will be critical over the next two years

  • British retailers target modern slavery in concerted bid to tackle SDGs

    Claire Manuel, (Apr 10, 2018)

    Boots, John Lewis, M&S, and Sainsbury’s among 25 UK firms to collaborate on addressing issues like recruitment fees in their supply chains

  • Fairtrade shrugs off Sainsbury's controversy with 7% growth in sales

    Terry Slavin, (Feb 27, 2018)

    Co-op and Waitrose help boost revenues as Fairtrade Fortnight begins with focus on living wage for banana farmers

  • Tim Mohin: ‘The world doesn’t need more CSR reports’

    Terry Slavin, (Feb 4, 2018)

    The new GRI chief talks to Ethical Corporation’s editor Terry Slavin about how to make sustainability reporting more relevant for investors and CEOs

  • Top stories of 2017: #5 Focus sharpens on human rights in supply chains

    Nadine Hawa, (Dec 13, 2017)

    Nadine Hawa charts a momentous year, including the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark and UNGP assurance guide, new stakeholder alliances, the spread of disruptive technology and France's due dilligence law

  • CSR Cheat Sheet: Modern slavery risks rise

    Oliver Balch, (Aug 31, 2017)

    Influx of immigrants has led to increase in forced labour in three-quarters of EU states, with greatest risk in Italy, Greece, Romania, Cyprus and Bulgaria

  • Weekly Watch: 30 March 2017

    Rebecca Ley, (Mar 15, 2017)

    Hammerson curbs emissions, Britvic wood fibre bottles, SCA targets menstrual health, The Body Shop boosts community trade, and Trump warned over Clean Power Plan

  • Weekly Watch: 9 March 2017

    Rebecca Ley, (Mar 1, 2017)

    Nestlé slashes sugar, business case for food waste, Timberland turns plastic into products, Co-op fights modern slavery, UK inequality, Wales invests to cut CO2, holidays run by women, and Epona joins Fairtrade

  • CSR Cheat Sheet: Human trafficking rises

    Oliver Balch, (Feb 9, 2017)

    Quantifying modern slavery, low-carbon transport, the price of illegal timber, and an insight into happiness in the workplace

  • ‘We have to champion the issues people care about’

    Terry Slavin, (Dec 15, 2016)

    John Morrison, head of the Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB), says companies and civil society have to come together as never before to show disaffected people the world over that globalisation works

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Why NGOs love Allianz, Axa and Swiss Re and are sharply divided on Nestlé

Posted on Jan 29, 2019

As SIGWATCH’s Robert Blood explains, the three insurance firms are out-performed only by Unilever in this year’s index of companies most praised by NGOs while the food giant wins praise and condemnation in equal measure

How can the tourism sector regain its place in the sun?

Posted on Jan 25, 2019

Amid over-tourism accusations and growing concern about climate impacts, Ethical Corporation looks at sustainability efforts in the cruise, hotels and airlines industries in this month's issue of the magazine

Peril on the high seas: the global push to rescue oceans

Posted on Jan 22, 2019

From the Alliance to End Plastic Waste to new rules on cutting shipping emissions, Angeli Mehta looks at the plethora of initiatives to relieve the unprecedented stresses on marine life

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The disruptors: How Mindy Lubber is leading the green business fight in Trump’s America

Posted on Jan 30, 2019

Oliver Balch talks to the CEO of Ceres about the Green New Deal, Climate Action 100+, and why business has to be at the table in the fightback against the rollback of environmental legislation

How can the tourism sector regain its place in the sun?

Posted on Jan 25, 2019

Amid over-tourism accusations and growing concern about climate impacts, Ethical Corporation looks at sustainability efforts in the cruise, hotels and airlines industries in this month's issue of the magazine

‘While Bolsonaro grandstands in Davos, he is wreaking untold damage in Amazon’

Posted on Jan 23, 2019

Dinamam Tuxá of Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil says despite the president’s attempts to woo the global elite at WEF, the indigenous people who are protecting forests are under severe threat

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