Quarterly Bulletin

ECCR's Bulletin is published quarterly, every March, June, September and December. Contributions are invited for future issues – please contact the editor.

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No. 83: Vulnerable workers debate

December 2011

ECCR Bulletin 83 
  • Vulnerable Workers: London 2012 debate
  • Human Trafficking: the links to business
  • Tax planning and corporate social responsibility
  • Spills and Spin: book review
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No. 82: Food prices and financial markets

September 2011
ECCR Bulletin 82 
  • Pension funds and global hunger
  • The ethics of speculating on food
  • The Economy of Communion
  • ICCR's Social Sustainability Guide
  • Biofuels: ethical and sustainable returns
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No. 81: Pornography & Sex Trafficking

June 2011
ECCR Bulletin 81 
  • Pornography in your investment portfolio?
  • Tourism industry can help stop trafficking
  • Protecting children from exploitation in tourism
  • Banking on trust
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No. 80: Oil Extraction – Risks to Health

March 2011
ECCR Bulletin 80 
  • Canada’s oil sands, health and human rights
  • Gas flaring and health in Niger Delta
  • New charity guidance: a defining moment for social investment?
  • The struggle to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska
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No. 79: Positive Impact Investment - debate report

December 2010
ECCR Bulletin 79 
  • Positive Impact Investment - debate report
  • The Food and Fairness Inquiry
  • Good business and accountability
  • Investing for a fairer world
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No. 78: Gender Perspectives on Business

September 2010
ECCR Bulletin 78 
  • Mining's impact on women
  • Women workers and the ETI
  • Make gender balance a priority
  • Financial mechanisms for community investing
  • Responsible banking options
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No. 77: Positive Impact Investment

June 2010
ECCR Bulletin 77 
  • Impact, leadership and faith
  • Money for mission
  • Triodos Renewables
  • Social enterprise investment
  • Banking on Justice conference report
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No. 76: World Council of Churches Statements on Finance, Economy, Eco-Justice and Debt

March 2010
ECCR Bulletin 76 
  • Just finance and the economy of life
  • Eco-justice and ecological debt
  • Bitter cotton harvest in Uzbekistan
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No. 75: The Future of Banking: Ethical and Sustainable?

December 2009
ECCR Bulletin 75 
  • The Future of Banking - debate report
  • Bankers' pay and the financial crisis
  • The UN Principles for Responsible Management Education
  • Response to a flawed SRI model
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No. 74: Global Supply Chains: Injustice Persists

September 2009
ECCR Bulletin 74 
  • Supply chain labour standards
  • The Ethical Trading Initiative
  • UK workers and gangmasters
  • ECCR West Midlands Group event
  • Tax reform and corporate responsibility
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No. 73: Companies, Communities and Religious Investors

June 2009
ECCR Bulletin 73 
  • Dublin conference report
  • Settlement products, a barrier to peace
  • BHP Billiton yet to respond to CAFOD
  • Aldersgate Group: Green foundations needed
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­No. 72: Multinationals and food security in Asia

March 2009
ECCR Bulletin 72­ ­
  • Stark choice facing the Philippines (pdf)
  • Thousands go without water in India, courtesy Coca-Cola
  • Time for a UK Commission on business and human rights
  • The Economic Crisis – conference report

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No. 71: Migrant workers: rights and responsibilities

December 2008­
ECCR Bulletin 71 ­

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No. 70: Business and Human Rights

September 2008­
ECCR Bulletin 70 ­

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No. 69: Positive Alternatives for Investment

June 2008

No. 68: Tackling climate change 

March 2008

  • Carbon disclosure: the need for mandatory standards
  • Alberta's tar sands
  • Carbon credits – ducking responsibility to reduce emissions?
  • Stern Review a year on – now for a carbon council
  • Nestlé's Brazilian water – corporate irresponsibility?
  • Fair trade begins at home

  

No. 67: Water sustainability: the challenge to business – open debate report 

December 2007 

  • Water sustainability: the challenge to business - open debate report
  • Corporate social responsibility and social improvement in the UK
  • FairPensions: campaigning for investor responsibility
  • The challenge of economic co-operation between the faiths

  

No. 66: The Church and her money: the JustShare debate

September 2007

  • The Church as ethical investor
  • Virtuous investment
  • Caste discrimination and the private sector in India
  • Pharmaceutical companies – ethical issues
  • The ETI assesses its impact
  • New Bench Marks Foundation Report on platinum mining

  

No. 65: Water - stewardship and social justice

June 2007

  • Juliet Peck
  • The need for effective water stewardship
  • Water and privatisation
  • 'Made in Eastern Europe' - the other face of fashion
  • Investing - alternatives to global capitalism
  • Taking stock of business and human rights
  • The first step in faith

 

No. 64: Corporate responsibility in Central and Eastern Europe

March 2007

  • Corporate social responsibility in post-Communist EU countries
  • Tesco in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Nigeria - cleaning up the tarnished jewel
  • Executive pay
  • Voluntary or mandatory corporate responsibility and sustainability reporting?

 

No. 63: `Flying in the face of climate change?’ - report on the open debate

December 2006

  • ECCR open debate: 'Flying in the face of climate change?'
  • Shell's deepening impasse at Corrib
  • Prague workshop: commitment to work together
  • Biofuels: green gain or greenwash?
  • CSR in Latin America - legally enforced or voluntary?

 

No. 62: Justice, stewardship and shareholder democracy

September 2006

  • Shell resolution: unfinished business?
  • New Companies Bill enfranchises nominee shareholders
  • Mining and indigenous peoples in the Philippines
  • Dialogue with Rio Tinto
  • Counting the cost of gold: new report from CAFOD
  • Making global food chains more equitable: book review

 

No. 61: Responsibility, dialogue and risk

June 2006

  • Shareholder responsibility and the role of business
  • Effective dialogue with companies
  • Measuring corporate social, environmental and ethical risk
  • Unanswered questions: British Aerospace's AGM
  • Breaking ground: new book on responsible investment
  • Stewardship challenge to the churches

 

No. 60: Corporate responsibility - workers’ perspectives

March 2006

  • Companies and child labour in India
  • Electronics industry labour standards
  • The corporate responsibility paradox
  • Made in China
  • Trade unions and corporate responsibility

 

No. 59

December 2005

  • Report of ECCR open debate: 'The ethical supply chain'
  • The ethical supply chain – perspective from Ethical Consumer
  • Argentina's carbon fund

 

No. 58

September 2005

  • The Carbon Disclosure Project
  • A greener shade of White Paper
  • EIRIS seminar on companies’ risk management
  • A climate for change
  • FTSE4Good acts on climate change
  • Wind farms on the cover
  • Co-op Group CSR report
  • BHP Billiton update

 

No. 57

June 2005

  • Israel, human rights and corporate responsibility
  • Engagement versus disinvestment
  • Imerys – English China Clay
  • Tax avoidance
  • Rio Tinto - meeting global needs for minerals and metals
  • Mining in developing countries – a conflict of interest?
  • BP – issues to watch

 

No. 56

March 2005

  • Sharp Corp. environmental report
  • Socially responsible investment in Korea
  • 'The world's local bank' - HSBC
  • Shareholder engagement for charitable foundations
  • French religious investors consider investment in energy
  • Pills and pay levels – Novartis
  • Pfizer Inc. – 'biggest drug company ever'
  • The vital ingredient -  palm oil

 

No. 55

December 2004

  • What does sustainable development require of business? - report of ECCR open debate
  • The goat in the flow station – report from CSCR Port Harcourt on Shell in Nigeria
  • The Corrib gas field – questions to the Shell Board
  • Mining and BHP Billiton
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