Archive for 'Humanity : CSR Connect'
The Menace of Bonded Labour in Pakistan’s Agricultural Sector
Posted on 15. Jun, 2009 by Ahmad Ali.
Agriculture remains a significant economic activity in Pakistan, employing nearly 45 percent of the total workforce. While it generates about a quarter of the national GDP, the agricultural sector is not very productive. Skewed landownership and exploitative production practices remain significant factors in perpetuating this lackluster agricultural performance. The phenomenon of bonded labour is perhaps [...]
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E-Waste Recycling in Poor Countries
Posted on 12. Jun, 2009 by Miriam Katz.
In Western countries, it is increasingly common to replace electronic equipment within a few years. Currently, many countries are implementing laws that mandate switching from analogue to digital television broadcasting, further accelerating the rate at which people dispose off their old televisions. In addition, because of rapid advancements in technology, many people in both the global [...]
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Exploring New Dimensions in CSR
Posted on 10. Jun, 2009 by Sohaib Jamali.
Corporations have been actively practicing strategic philanthropy for a little more than a decade. With time there is increasing awareness that what was once considered a management fad has now strengthened its roots many thanks to the growing understanding of the need to save our planet. But what about the people, the employees? How long [...]
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Labour Markets: Verbosity With Meaning
Posted on 09. Jun, 2009 by Ali Sohail.
When a downturn hits, there is a fall in demand, and it is labour working at the lowest tier of the market which gets bumped out of the economy first. Many perceive this as a consequence of adhoc decisions on the part of employers, but infact such is a systematic consequence of the function of [...]
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Concern for Children Trust
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Admin TBL.
Improving the quality of life for Karachi’s urban slum children costs far less then you may think. Noorjehan is one of 200,000 children who live in Karachi’s largest unofficial kutchi abadi: Moham-madi Machar Colony. She wakes up every morning at 5 am to do housework and also cooks for her family. Her mother is critically [...]
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Business Continuity Planning Can Make us Stronger
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by Sohail Khimani.
Recent high-wire tensions between India and Pakistan over recent Mumbai attacks have reactivated the urge to treat freedom as a blessing from God and take liberty to use it the way it deserves. Correlation exists between freedom and Business Continuity and though I admit that businesses are well aware and well educated regarding importance of [...]
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Global Briefs May-Jun 2009
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Rutaba Ahmed.
Artificial Sweetners and Health Hazards Artificial sweeteners have been linked to bladder cancer in laboratory rats. The cancer affects a mechanism in the rat’s bladder that does not exist in humans, and, therefore, the FDA does not consider most artificial sweete-ners dangerous for human consumption. A new study from the Water Technology Center is Karlsruhe, Germany [...]
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Waste Not, Want Not?
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Praetor.
About 353,000 babies are born every single day in the world. About 146,000 people die each day globally. So in round numbers, the world population is growing by about 200,000 people every day or a million every 5 days. Given that the Planet’s natural resources are limited, common sense dictates that waste should be avoided [...]
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What’s Happening?
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Admin TBL.
Global Forum 2009 The three-day interactive summit “Business as an Agent of World Benefit – “Manage by Designing in an Era of Massive Innovation” was held from June 25, 2009, at the Case Western Reserve Univer-sity, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. The summit hosted interactive change methods, breakout sessions, and expert-led discussions. The purpose of the confe-rence was “to [...]
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Cost of Coercion
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by International Labour Organization.
The Global Report on forced labour, published in 2005, provided figures to show the truly global scope of the problem, which affects virtually all countries and all kinds of economies. Some 12.3 million persons worldwide were in some form of forced labour or bondage. Of these, 9.8 million were exploited by private agents, including more [...]
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The Case for Banning CSR!
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Wayne Visser.
I participated in a strategy session on CSR/sustainability this week and was left wondering if we CSR specialists are our own worst enemy. Would more progress be made if we banned CSR? Would we be better off if we never used the C-word again? What if we substituted “CSR” with “risk management” or “new business [...]
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Building Teams
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Etsko Schuitema.
The premise the work done on teams at Schuitema is based on, is that one can account for the success of any group of people on the degree to which the individual in the group is unconditional in pursuit of the group’s objectives. For example, people normally measure the success of an enterprise based on [...]
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Corporate Triple Bottom Line Reporting in Pakistan
Posted on 30. May, 2009 by Muhammad Arshed Rafiq.
“The companies can no longer afford the luxury of ambiguity,” states WBCSD report titled ‘Corporate Social Responsibility: Making Good Business Sense’. The trend of environmental reporting started in 1990s and a few reports came out from some very progressive companies in the world. This became a fashion with the turn of the century. In 2002, [...]
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On The Lighter Side
Posted on 29. May, 2009 by Rutaba Ahmed.
“Green” Transit? Think Again Transit skeptics who also care about the environment must be enjoying a nice breakfast of vindication this morning. You worry a lot about the environment and do everything you can to reduce your carbon footprint the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive dangerous climate change. So you always prefer to take the train or [...]
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