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Global Briefs Jul-Aug 2008

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 […]

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Global Briefs May-Jun 2008

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, […]

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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 […]

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Global Briefs Jan-Feb 2008

First ever systematic set of global human rights risk indices launched Maplecroft has launched an innovative set of 25 human rights risk indices for 20 different sets of human rights violations, to bring greater understanding and policy focus to the field of business and human rights. Maplecroft, founded in 2001, is a specialist research and […]

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