Corporate Social Responsibility
EITI – Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative – Chairman Peter Eigen – Moving from a start up organization to a global standard setter: progress report on the first two years; summary of key Doha conference of supporters – from industry, governments and civil society.
Global Witness – an EITI supporter – calls for new initiatives at the Doha meeting.
Publish What You Pay International
– an EITI supporter – issues call to all EITI supporters, stresses jailing of civil society leader from Gabon, sees need for US government actions.
OxfamAmerica – an EITI supporter – highlights the critical condition in mining in Peru – underscoring the humanitarian and social realities when companies act poorly and governmental initiatives appear insufficient.
Revenue Watch Institute – releases report funded by Open Societ Institute – an EITI supporter – on significant progress in deals in the extractive sector in Liberia – our reports here include the forewords to the new study by both OSI Chairman George Soros and Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirlief.
Directors Have a Societal Obligation – Former Securities & Exchange Commission Chairman William Donaldson introduces the landmark study on the compelling requirement for corporate directors to assign much higher priority to societal needs, from the environment to human rights. Study by the Committee for Economic Development.
Corporate Governance
Audit Integrity The Velveteen Rabbit trailer A Bunch of Amateurs film Releases New Tools Assists Firms to Detect Fraud-Vulnerable Companies – Demand Rises As Economy Worsens.
CalPERS finds that diversity in the boardroom leads to higher performance – new survey.
Public Sector Governance
Global Integrity 2008 Survey of 57 countries – full overview of the state of integrity in most of the world’s major economies.
Analysis: Paula Desio – expert at the Ethics Resource Center – explains how US Federal Government procurement guidelines are being tightened to uncover wrongdoing.
Report by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction – see the Ethicsworld analysis of the key findings on mismanagement, waste, fraud and corruption.
Dangers on the Frontlines and news of the Russian and British investigative reporters who have just been awarded the Transparency International 2008 Integrity Award. News from NGOs
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