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  • Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation.
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  • Andrea Spencer-Cooke
  • Pascal Marmier
  • Kelly Richdale
  • Stephen Whittle
  • Steve Bowbrick
  • Beth Krasna

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March 19, 2010

Save Wikileaks

Wikileaks is one of the most important websites on the Net. It serves as a repository against torturers, bankers, tax evaders, corrupt governments, abusive politicians and powerful companies. It keeps the Man in Check.

 

It regularly leaks whisteblower reports, details of banks helping tax evaders, accounts of torture, helps circumvent gagging orders from large firms taking advantage of their legal resources.

 

They are running out of money, and need about 600'000 $ to function per year. Their fundraising drive is up on their site  www.wikileaks.org

 

 

Posted by on March 19, 2010 at 07:50 PM in Whistle-blowing and ethics hotline | | Comments (2)

Tags: whistleblowing, wikileaks

Covalence ethical ranking 2009

Covalence has published its ethical ranking for 2009.

IBM (Technology), Intel Corp (Technology) and HSBC Holdings (Banks) top Covalence ethical ranking 2009 among 581 multinationals within 18 sectors. Environmental initiatives, Eco-innovative products and social sponsorships have enabled companies to generate positive coverage in 2009, while issues related to downsizing, CO2 emissions and working conditions caused the most criticisms.

 

Full report here

http://www.covalence.ch/index.php/2010/01/26/covalence-ethical-ranking-2009/

Posted by on March 19, 2010 at 07:39 PM in Business | | Comments (4)

Tags: Covalence, ethical ranking