Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, announced that it has signed the declaration of membership of the UN Global Compact. In doing so, the company is emphasizing its all-round commitment to sustainable development and being a ...
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Trade barriers between the EU and Colombia will be lifted as of 1 August 2013, when a comprehensive and far-reaching trade deal enters into application. The Agreement will open up markets for both EU and Colombian exporters, eventually ...
After Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KP), now the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) has become a centre of criticism with publication of a report by 'Earthworks' titled 'More Shine than Substance' recently. 'Earthworks' is a ...
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Web content filtering company Netsweeper has supplied its products to Pakistan, even as some top IT companies have refused to supply gear for a controversial filtering project, a Canadian research group has disclosed. The new report ...
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The Clean Clothes Campaign welcomes the European Parliament resolution of 20 May 2013 on health and safety in the Bangladesh garment industry, which sets out the Parliament’s expectations of multinational textile retailers to ...
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The U.S. government has lifted sanctions on the export of a variety of consumer communications devices, software and services including mobile phones to Iran ahead of elections in that country. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in ...
CSO - In January 2010, Google shocked the cyber world by confessing it had been the target of an advanced persistent threat lasting months and mounted by hackers connected to China's People Liberation Army. "[We] have evidence to suggest ...
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Security researchers have identified multiple samples of the recently discovered "KitM" spyware for Mac OS X, including one dating back to December 2012 and targeting German-speaking users. KitM (Kumar in the Mac), also known as HackBack, ...
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In 2003, Yukos was preparing for a game-changing merger with another private Russian oil company, Roman Abramovich's Sibneft, to create a 2.3 million b/d Russian oil producing giant. The deal was scuppered, however, in large part because ...
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The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has temporarily revoked all of Danzer’s FSC forest management and chain-of-custody certificates. The disassociation has resulted from a complaint filed by Greenpeace that Danzer’s former ...
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Previously unknown Mac OS X spyware, signed with a valid Apple Developer ID, has turned up on the laptop of an activist from Angola at a human rights conference in Norway. Security researcher and privacy activist Jacob Appelbaum found the ...
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An anonymous bidder paid $US610,000 ($617,000) in a charity auction for coffee date with Apple chief Tim Cook, the organisers said. The Tim Cook auction tied the record for highest winning bid at charity auction site Charitybuzz, ...
The members of Kimberly Process (KP) who are opposing a proposal to redefine ‘Conflict Diamonds’ once again came under pressure when the World Diamond Council (WDC) recently reiterated its backing for the initiative. It ...
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A meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook has been auctioned off for charity The chance to meet Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has been auctioned off for £395,000, with proceeds going to Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. The ...
A United Nations expert group urged global clothing brands to work with Bangladesh, international organizations and civil society to improve working conditions in the country’s garment sector, following the collapse last month of a ...
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