Category: Ethical News (non Marketing)

Combat Stress and the Ministry of Defence announce new partnership

Stuart Mitchell

Combat Stress and the Ministry of Defence (MOD) have announced a new partnership to provide an out of hours mental health helpline to serving personnel. From midday on Sunday 25 February servicemen and women will have a new number to use when calling the Combat Stress helpline. The MOD will support the new number with the biggest internal marketing campaign on mental health they’ve ever run. The MOD has committed to giving Combat Stress £50,000 in the next financial year to cover the cost of the helpline team taking calls…

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Asda releases its Gender Pay Report

Stuart Mitchell

Supermarket Asda has today published its Gender Pay Report in line with a Government requirement for large companies to do so by 4thApril 2018. In a report published on the Government’s Gender Pay website, Asda has reported that, for the 2017 Gender Pay Gap reporting period; The median pay difference between ALL men and women employed by Asda is 8.9% – 9.5% better than the national average of 18.4% The mean pay difference between ALL men and women employed by Asda is 12.5% – 4.9% better than the national average…

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Over 100 global cities get majority of electricity from renewables

Stuart Mitchell

Cities are increasingly reporting that they are powered by renewable electricity, according to data published today by CDP. The global environmental impact non-profit CDP, holds information from over 570 of the world’s cities and names over 100 now getting at least 70% of their electricity from renewable sources such as hydro, geothermal, solar and wind. The list includes large cities such as Auckland (New Zealand); Nairobi (Kenya); Oslo (Norway); Seattle (USA) and Vancouver (Canada), and is more than double the 40 cities who reported that they were powered by at…

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Cristiano Ronaldo Shares Unifying Message to Urge World to Help Rohingya Refugee Children

Stuart Mitchell

Cristiano Ronaldo is supporting Save the Children’s Rohingya humanitarian response by urging people to help refugee children who have fled the violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State and are now living in camps and makeshift settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. “I count my blessings. I have four beautiful children. I would do anything for them. When you become a parent, you understand that all parents must feel the same way. We love our children,” said Cristiano Ronaldo, a Save the Children Ambassador. “It is difficult as a father to watch…

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Ten months after promised review, disabled Twitter users still don’t have the right tools to flag disability hate speech says UK Charity

Stuart Mitchell

Muscular Dystrophy UK is calling for Twitter to make it easier for disabled people to report hateful comments against them, ten months after the platform first said it would review the process. While abusive tweets based on someone’s race, religion, gender or orientation are readily reportable in a dropdown menu on Twitter, disability is not listed as an option. The only indication that hateful comments based on someone’s disability are unacceptable on Twitter involve clicking through several extra screens to locate the site’s 2,000-word rules, which include a single mention…

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