Companies ‘long way to go’ to be socially responsible: U.N. Global Compact chief
BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Progress in making companies more environmentally and socially responsible has been slow and too many still focus on short-term financial gain rather than their long-term impact on people and nature, the head of t…
Delay in U.S. extractives rules aids corruption: Oxfam America
WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Five years after the United States required oil, gas and mining companies to disclose how much they pay governments, U.S. reporting rules have yet to take effect robbing citizens in poor countries of critical d…
Tibetans protest to demand release of monk’s body in China
BEIJING (Reuters) – Dozens of Tibetans shouting “return the body” protested outside a prison in China on Wednesday after a prominent Tibetan monk died in jail, reflecting anger amongst his supporters and family, who believe he was murdered.
Bahrain hits back at U.S. human rights criticism
DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain hit back at U.S. expressions of concern over the Gulf Arab kingdom’s treatment of opposition figures on Wednesday, saying all its actions followed due legal process.
Exclusive: Aid charities reluctant to reveal full scale of fraud
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – With fraud rife in conflict and disaster zones, aid charities are under pressure to be open about corruption but one third of the world’s 25 biggest aid charities declined to make their fraud data public in a Thoms…
Iran deal ‘naked as emperor with no clothes’, says Israel
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s nuclear affairs minister said his country was like the boy in the fairy tale who pointed out the emperor had no clothes, heaping scorn on the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday and emphasizing Israel’s right to unilateral sel…
India’s Modi battles opposition to key land reform
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Opposition parties boycotted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest attempt to build consensus around a business-friendly land bill on Wednesday, boding badly for his ambitious agenda of economic reform in a parliament session that…
Child marriage accepted in Brazil to escape abuse at home: researchers
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Child marriage is widely accepted in Brazil, where girls seek older husbands to escape from sexual and other violence in the home, or because of teenage pregnancies or the lack of job opportunities, according to ne…
Turkish PM talks peace, not coalition, with Kurdish party
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s prime minister called on Wednesday for new efforts to advance a Kurdish peace process, but his talks with an opposition party that helped foster the fragile peace confirmed there was little prospect they could form a coaliti…
‘Bookkeeper of Auschwitz’ found guilty by German court
LUENEBURG, Germany (Reuters) – A 94-year-old German man who worked as a bookkeeper at Auschwitz was sentenced to four years in prison for his role in the murder of 300,000 people at the death camp, in what could be one of the last big Holocaust trials….
