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Rikki Stancich

Freelance Journalist

Email: rstancich@paris-intransit.com

Rikki Stancich is a freelance journalist who contributes regularly to Ethical Corporation magazine.

Contributions for Rikki Stancich

• Analysis: Offshore wind power - More than hot air

• Ethical sourcing – New retail club tackles compliance

• Power – Quenching Abu Dhabi’s thirst

• Recession ethics: CSR in a downturn – Recession-proof ethics can weather the storm

• GM crops: Biotech agriculture – Time to take GM seriously

• Why mandatory reporting has fallen from the EU agenda

• Driving governance change

• Credit card shake up

• Can UK pensions be made more ethical?

• Is the BTC pipeline losing favour with investors?

• Nigeria’s corruption

• EU industry remains non-committal on emissions

• UK companies taken to task over tax avoidance

• Calpers’ battle on corporate governance may only just be beginning

• Has the train left the station on genetically modified foods?

• Spain launches anti-monopoly investigation of Shell and Cepsa joint venture

• Reported fraud cases on the rise, according to the EU anti-fraud office

• Corporate killing bill ambles into a siding

• Swiss Re caught in Spitzer’s web

• EU trade commissioner Mandelson too cosy with business, say campaigners

• Accounting standards “carve outs” leave IAS39 on track for January

• EU ratification of Stockholm Convention boosts global commitment on chemical pollution

• Big polluters are cleaning up their act

• A waste of women

• Europe’s hotbed of accounting scandals

• Business leadership better than political leadership, World Economic Forum survey finds

• BP Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline is leaky, posing environmental and economic threat

• No room for responsible business in Brown’s vision of a ‘competitive Britain’

• Rumoured EADS-Thales deal may damage Franco-German relations

• NGOs and trade unions say governments, businesses and consumers are not committed to sustainability

• EU launches anti-piracy drive

• Ban on public beer-drinking rejected by Russia’s upper house

• Commerzbank cuts non-German workforce

• Israeli companies face pollution charges

• Signs of turbulence for Alitalia’s restructuring plan

• Scots dairy farmers demand fair trade from supermarkets

• Ryanair’s disability discrimination appeal delayed by lack of wheelchair in court

• Alcatel under investigation for bribery

• Merck drug Vioxx should have been pulled from market years ago, researchers say

• Volkswagen safeguards jobs with wage freeze deal

• Indie labels lash out at Sony-Bertelsmann merger approval

• Fishermen gain a stronger voice in the European fisheries industry

• Nordic companies say sustainable development needs more political commitment

• Lax labelling regulation heightens confusion over toxic paprika

• French socially responsible investment market continues strong growth

• EU generic drugs exports plan raises health-risk and market concerns

• Bank of America and Grant Thornton volley lawsuits at Parmalat

• Britain joins international Halliburton bribery investigation

• Lax regulation leaves UK wide open for money-laundering

• Royal Dutch/Shell to become single entity, enhancing transparency

• Film studios to remove price-agreement clauses in European TV contracts

• Haberdashery firms fined €30 million each for price collusion

• Russia’s upper house ratifies Kyoto Protocol

• The race for the green vote

• Disabilities deadline finds UK businesses unprepared

• UK employers too laid back about work-related stress

• Monsanto GM maize given green light by EU, despite health concerns

• French farmers protest for right to produce tax-free bio-fuels

• Irish vCJD case adds to evidence that ‘mad cow’ threat has not gone away

• Shell and BP poised to report record profits as oil price soars

• Untouchable on asbestos?

• Corporate conscience goes East

• Russia debates Kyoto ratification

• Spanish tobacco growers and processors fined for price fixing

• Transparency International denounces governments and companies for fuelling corruption

• EU approves more permits in emission-reducing trading scheme

• The people’s company?

• Chemicals lobbying losing its Reach

• Anti-monopoly probe brings changes to Coca-Cola’s European sales practices

• Parmalat investors seek $8 billion in damages from banks and auditors

• Action urged to cut construction industry accidents in Europe

• Protests against GM job cuts to spread across Europe

• Household aerosols pose health risks, study finds

• Economic crime costs UK Economy £100 million a day

• Opel management and staff in strike talks

• UK atomic weapons maker faces legal action

• Volkswagen sued over protection law

• Statoil agrees to pay fine relating to bribery charges

• EU draws up plan to cut extractive industry pollution

• Corporate social responsibility campaign launched in Brussels

• EU retains arms embargo on China

• EU urges clampdown on cancer-causing nitrates in meat products

• European partners agree to tackle work-related stress

• UN health report was secretly funded by sugar industry

• EU names biggest polluters in Europe

• New EU legislation cracks down on cross-border scams

• Failure on human rights brings further EU sanctions on Myanmar

• Parmalat sues Bank of America

• Parmalat auditors face market-rigging charges

• Cotton multinationals slow to address child exploitation

• EU pushes for greater disclosure on directors’ earnings

• German retailer rejects union concessions on threatened jobs

• Parmalat fraud hearing begins

• French oil company Total in bribery investigation

• Delay for insurance premium sex equality laws

• Nordic market ethical index launched

• Palacio waves the flag for list of banned ships

• Conflict of interest over EU armaments embargo

• British businesses fail to meet disability discrimination criteria

• EU calls for strategy to combat financial and corporate malpractice

• Russia ‘to ratify Kyoto protocol’

• High level of untested paediatric medicines prompts new EU proposals

• Virgin-Nigeria Airways deal leaves employees out of pocket

• Corruption and arbitrary regulation ‘undermines sustainable business development’

• Nestlé threatens to pull investment in Perrier if unions do not co-operate

• Deutsche Bank back in the courts

• EU makes ban on hazardous chemicals in toys permanent

• Companies are failing to manage their biodiversity risk exposure

• Portugal makes GRI debut

• Emissions will rise, not fall, under EU Emissions trading scheme, says new research

• New EU working hour rules meet criticism from all sides

• Alitalia avoids a rough landing

• Canada and Russia prolong deadlock over lucrative chrysostile asbestos

• Findings against asbestos giant James Hardie may prompt legislative change

• Toxic Monsanto maize shunned by Europe

• European eco stamp of approval for investment fund

• Pharmaceutical firms must do more to reduce ethical risk, says shareholder group

• EU corporate governance directive may award foreign shareholders more clout

• Asbestos victims outraged by Amsterdam-based Aussie building supplies company

• Biotech industry confidence in GM crops ahead of EU clearance rings hollow

• Coffee code a watery attempt to remedy brewing poverty

• EU-wide corporate tax base may resolve ‘fiscal dumping’

• Volkswagen ultimatum tightens the screws on German labor market

• Controversy mounts over biotech firms’ marketing ploy for gene testing

• Resurgence of HIV/AIDS in Western Europe prompts calls for co-operation and leadership

• Companies in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania on track for online disclosure

• Lack of sustainability reporting highlights business complacence on a global scale

• Scorned REACH Report leaves EU chemical legislation high on the agenda

• Child obesity prompts renewed calls for blanket ban on child-targeted advertising

• British firms have lost their maternal instinct

• 12 year EU copper cartel goes down the tubes

• EU compromise on toy chemicals leaves manufacturers unhappy

• Media industry scores a “C” for social and environmental commitment

• The pharmaceutical industry: a cross-section of CR practice

• The pharmaceutical industry, SRI and the WTO

• World trade off?

• Labouring the point?

• GM ruling leaves US in the cold

• Europe-wide emission trading set for 2005

• Working Group publishes key document on materiality

• UK Supermarkets accused of exploiting consumer goodwill on Fairtrade

• Boeing employees accused of industrial espionage

• BP braves corporate governance in Russia

• Corporate characters growing up within the Guidelines

• British government hypocrisy exposed over illegal logging

• Survey sheds light on current reporting trends

• ExxonMobil AGM under siege

• Ahold’s accounting saga continues

• The ethical state of America

• Cafédirect cushions tea crisis

• CSR leaders fare badly in online communications

• Britain to amend corporate killing laws

• BP accused of compromising human rights

• Timber sanctions imposed on Liberia

• Deutsche Bank guilty of breaking sanction

• Music industry strikes out at pirates

• Social leadership: who is leading whom?

• Corporate aid for HIV / AIDS: Africa’s last hope?

• Money for nothing? Not quite

• What business felt about Johannesburg

• Whether desperate times demand desperate measures

• Ten years on…let the marathon begin

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