Full Coverage: Corporations

25.07.2007 The Gujarat-based Institute of Rural Management (IRMA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Union Ministry for Panchayati Raj to monitor the implementation of the ministry's projects for strengthening grassroots organisations and for implementing self-governance.

25.07.2007 In the wake of the increasing number of clinical trials taking place in the country, and countless allegations about unethical practices, India is all set to introduce mandatory registration of all clinical trials.

10.07.2007 World leaders and global business chiefs gathered last week to assess progress on a voluntary initiative aimed at promoting human rights standards for cooperate operations. Several non-profits are criticizing the seven-year-old "Global Compact" as a mockery and a failure.

09.07.2007 Genevessä pidetyssä maailmanlaajuisessa yritysjohdon huippukokouksessa keskusteltiin työllisyydestä, ihmisoikeuksista ja ympäristöstä. Yritysjohtajat vakuuttivat ottavansa kyseiset teemat huomioon omissa toimissaan, samoin taistelemaan korruptiota vastaan sekä tekemään globalisaatiosta kaikille ihmisille hyödyllisen.

05.07.2007 ActionAid has criticised UN’s Global Compact for failing to stop corporate human rights violations. Its call for legally binding rules to control corporate activities comes at the eve of the global UN summit on corporate responsibility in Geneva on 5-6 July.

02.07.2007 India’s water man and Magsaysay Award winner Rajinder Singh is busy rallying people on the banks of river Yamuna, that flows through Agra - the city of the Taj Mahal, to stand up for their water rights by protecting river Yamuna from pollution and “from being handed over” to the MNCs.