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‘Too important to get wrong’ – but with #SafeguardingAsOne and new NCVO guides you can get it right

Stuart Mitchell

Safeguarding should be a core value of every voluntary organisation and considered a personal responsibility of everyone working in them, NCVO has urged. A suite of free online resources, launched today, outlines simple steps that voluntary organisations can take to ensure that they are run in a way that actively prevents beneficiaries, staff and others from suffering harm, harassment, bullying, abuse and neglect. The resources were developed collaboratively by an NCVO-led partnership made up of expert organisations, created to deliver phase one of the Safeguarding Training Fund. The fund was…

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UNESCO and the United Kingdom scale up efforts to promote media freedom

Stuart Mitchell

The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay and the United Kingdom’s Minister for the Commonwealth, the UN and South Asia, Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon, today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), to scale up engagement promoting safety of journalists and freedom of the press. This agreement will reinforce UNESCO’s ongoing cooperation with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in the framework of the recently-launched Global Campaign for Media Freedom. “Today, the promotion of press freedom is a flagship of UNESCO’s action, and I am happy the UK is renewing its…

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ICAS paper on advertising standards and corporate social responsibility

Stuart Mitchell

ICAS have a paper on advertising standards and corporate social responsibility which may be of interest to some of our readers, see their site for some useful information.   Responsible advertising is an important element of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Companies committed to CSR look at the impact of their activities on all aspects of society including economic, environmental, social and cultural aspects. Concretely, CSR means that companies must consider this impact across all their segments and activities, whether IT, operations, sales, human resources, or marketing. A shared goal: promoting…

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Stuart Mitchell

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Embed Protection of Civilians into UK National Security: Report

Stuart Mitchell

A new report published by RUSI and Save the Children calls for the UK to embed its commitment to the ‘Protection of Civilians’ into the strategies of the National Security Council and across Whitehall. Former Foreign Secretary Lord Hague urges UK Government to ’help reverse the current momentum towards disregard and deliberate targeting of civilians, seen in so many of today’s armed conflicts’. Drawing on insights from across the policy and practitioner communities, the report, entitled ‘The UK Strategy on Protection of Civilians’, argues that UK’s current revision of its…

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