IFC Partners with Global Reporting Initiative to Improve Corporate Reporting on Gender Issue A 12-month research and consultation project has been launched in September by IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to help private enterprises worldwide create new opportunities for women, adopt best practices in sustainability reporting, […]
Remake a Living: The Jobs Are Blowin’ in The Wind Turbines are sprouting like wildflowers after rain in Texas, California, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Illinois, and Oklahoma. Not to mention China. As the hype about “green” jobs has grown, the wind-energy industry has done a pretty good job of reporting accurately on their job […]
Governments Must Take Collective Action: Amnesty International Human Rights Report 2008 Amnesty International (AI) recently released its 2008 State of the World’s Human Rights Report. This report reveals that sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations, people are still tortured or ill-treated in at least 81 countries, […]
Increasing Demand for CSR Jobs Outpaces Supply: CSR Job Report A multi-year study on CSR jobs was published by Net Impact, an international nonprofit organization which helps TBL-minded companies connect with top MBA talent, and the California-based CSR Recruiting firm, Ellen Weinreb. The CSR Jobs study found that there has been a growing interest in […]
