ESG News For The People's Republic of Bangladesh

Zayed Sustainability Prize celebrates innovators driving global progress at 2025 Awards

Luke Jaque-Rodney, one of PUMA’s Voices of a RE:GENERATION calls for positive changes to our community, planet and future with short film ‘Stitch + Spice’, showcased at the 6th Big Syn International Film Festival in London

Levi Strauss Foundation, VF Corporation, Warby Parker and Deckers Brands work with social enterprise VisionSpring and USAID.188,000 apparel and footwear factory workers have vision corrected with eyeglasses.Clear Vision Workplace alliance sets target to screen additional 500,000 workers in the next two years.

33 finalists selected from 5,213 submissions across 163 countriesFinalists are championing impactful climate action and supporting clean energy, water, food, and healthcare access

Pure Earth’s “Rapid Market Screening” (RMS) study, the largest and most diverse of its kind to date, found high rates of lead contamination in metal and ceramic foodware, paint, cosmetics, and toys, posing potentially serious health risks to those exposed to themNew World Bank research published in The Lancet Planetary Health reveals a dramatically greater burden and cost of lead exposure on IQ loss in children and on cardiovascular deaths in adults, six-fold greater than previously thought, and an estimated global cost of US$6 trillion.Pure Earth unveils a seven-point action plan to address the lead contamination crisis and calls for increased investment to scale proven solutions.

VisionSpring, Live Well (a CARE International social enterprise) and the Council of Churches Zambia will correct the vision of 12,600 Zambians with eyeglasses in 2023.3 out of 4 people needing eyeglasses will be acquiring their first-ever pair.The programme will improve income and well-being, unlocking $2.5 million (ZK 52.5 million) in new income earning potential in the first year.The innovative model will bring basic eyecare to rural and low-income communities and has been introduced from Uganda and Bangladesh

- Initiative brings together start-ups with world-leading manufacturers.- Companies will be working on innovative ways to make low carbon concrete.- Follows success of first Open Challenge which focused on carbon capture.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, global education organization Room to Read today announced She Creates Change, the first nonprofit-led animation and live action film project to promote gender equality through the stories of young women around the world. The multi-media initiative — which in addition to a six-episode film series also includes books and audio stories — boldly aims to reach all 432 million adolescent girls (ages 12-18) in the world with content and educational curricul

For a half century, a nonprofit in Santa Ana, California, has been working alongside people living in material poverty to effectively transform their communities.Concern America, established by volunteers, was initially focused on supporting food and education centers in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Since then, the organization has extended its mission of transforming need into self-sufficiency to other communities around the world.Today, Concern America works in isolated regions where civil war

Amazon commits $53 million to accelerate women’s climate innovation and gender equity advancements

VisionSpring is launching a $70 million initiative, Livelihoods in Focus, to correct the vision of more than 6 million people by 2030.The initiative will focus on low-income tea, coffee, cocoa and artisan workers in India, Bangladesh, Ghana, Kenya and Uganda.Correcting vision and providing eyeglasses in targeted communities will improve workers’ income and well-being, unlocking over $1 billion in new earning potential.

Armory Square Ventures, a technology venture capital firm operating across New York State, announced its launch today of the Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation. The new annual prize awards a talented literary translator with book publication. The winning manuscript, selected by a jury of peers, will be a translation of a literary work from one South Asian language into English.This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.

Eastman Exports, TTCU, AFWA, and GLJ – ILRF, along with H&M Group, announce the Dindigul Agreement to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence and Harassment.

Voya Financial, Inc. (NYSE: VOYA), announced today that it is honored to be joining Futures and Options for its 11th Annual Dream Big – A Celebration of Opportunity gala tonight.The Dream Big event will honor the nonprofit’s 2021 scholarship winners and finalists, as well as all of the New York City youth who have overcome barriers and gained firsthand workforce experience that will prepare them to pursue a higher education and future career. The event will also recognize Rodney O. Martin, Jr.,

Released in Conjunction with #WorldFoodDay, Initiative’s Second Year Results Underscore Critical Need for Healthy Food Resources

Room to Read mobilizes capital and resources in response to education crisis as latest wave of COVID-19 keeps kids from learning.

Facedrive Inc. (“Facedrive” or the “Company”) (TSXV:FD) (OTCQX:FDVRF), a Canadian “people-and-planet first” tech ecosystem is pleased to provide this general corporate update and growth report as at the completion of the first fiscal quarter of 2021.Facedrive is a multi-faceted “people-and-planet first” tech ecosystem offering socially-responsible services to local communities with a strong commitment to doing business fairly, equitably and sustainably. As part of this commitment, Facedrive’s vi

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For the rest of 2021, $1 from every Facedrive TraceSCAN device purchase will contribute to Plan International Canada’s campaign to raise $900,000 with a 6:1 GAC matching for a total of $6.3M to end child marriage in Bangladesh

Grants will support community-focused organizations in Bangladesh, Colombia, and Senegal

New report shows continued global impact of social marketing in providing women and couples with access to high-quality contraceptives and family planning

Atiqua Hashem Joins the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

The Company Pledges $100,000 to The Hunger Project, Dedicated the Month of May to Women and Hunger

“The Humanity Fund contribution will make a huge difference in the lives of 750 families who will receive food packages and medical kits.”

The Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation today announced plans to donate much-needed medical supplies to 10 more countries in Asia.

Herbalife Nutrition (NYSE: HLF), a premier global nutrition company, along with the Herbalife Nutrition Foundation (HNF), today announced that it has a new nonprofit partner, The Hunger Project, under its Nutrition for Zero Hunger (NFZH) initiative. The Foundation has made an initial donation of $30,000 to fund the organization’s women-centered, community-led development and educational programs. Together they will invest in rural communities around the world affected by food insecurity and maln

Two winners were selected by a panel of experts that included Mr. Tommy Hilfiger, Daniel Grieder, CEO, Tommy Hilfiger Global and PVH Europe, and Noor Tagouri, Journalist, Activist and Speaker

Tommy Hilfiger, which is owned by PVH Corp. [NYSE: PVH], announces the six finalists in the 2019 Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge. Now in its second year, the global program aims to support entrepreneurial start-up and scale-up businesses developing solutions that promote inclusive and positive change in fashion. The selection of finalists is a next step in the journey to identify and champion innovative opportunities that support the advancement of the industry. On February 13, 2020, t

Led by the Zayed Sustainability PrizeAdvancing global progress towards the UN SDGs, a range of technologies and solutions will be deployed to empower vulnerable communities in 20 countries, by the end of 2020 Aiming to widen the global reach and accessibility of impactful sustainability solutions and innovations, the collaborative initiative builds on the UAE’s leading global role in humanitarianism and sustainability, and champions the values of inclusiveness and compassion outlined in the UAE’s Year of Tolerance Solutions and technologies being donated, were developed by Zayed Sustainability Prize winners and finalists across its Health, Food, Energy and Water categories

This is Bank of America’s first locally denominated loan for commercial and industrial solar financing in India as part of its global Environmental Business Initiative, which will help expand Fourth Partner’s distributed solar impact

New goals are part of the latest Made for Change Sustainability & Responsibility Report

PVH continues to support early childhood development and early learning programs around the world

Eurofins acquires AQM expanding its excellence in inspection and audits, Corporate Social Responsibility and brand protection.

Takeda’s founding mission to serve patients, wherever they are, drives its increased commitments to disease prevention, capacity building, and access to healthcare in developing and emerging countries, in partnership with the global community. Through its annual Global CSR Program, approximately 20,000 employees worldwide cast their votes, selecting City Cancer Challenge, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), SeriousFun Children’s Network, UNICEF, and the UN Foundation as 2019 partners.With these programs, Takeda's contributions through its unique Global CSR Program total 10.5 billion yen for a total of 14 programs since its 2016 launch.

Gavi, NEC, and Simprints to deploy world’s first scalable child fingerprint identification solution to boost immunization in developing countries

As Mother’s Day Approaches, ‘Save Our Moms’ Campaign Launches Across MTV and MTV News on All Platforms

Inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance Report (ESG) outlines how Walmart drives change in the industry and creates shared value Retailer achieves significant progress in ESG efforts, including 93 million metric ton reduction of supplier emissionsi and 6.1% reduction in Scopes 1 and 2 annual greenhouse gas emissions in 2017ii

Gandhi Peace Prize ceremony hosted by Government of India

10 programs selected to help support healthcare capacity building in resource-constrained countries More than $1 million in total provided to expand essential cancer care services

Report highlights power plants in Bangladesh, India, and the United States of America, along with the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues they are facing

MetLife Foundation and Verb launch Inclusion Plus in the U.S. as part of a global competition to improve financial health.

Commitment includes funding for nonprofit grants supporting shelter and feeding efforts, as well as in-kind product donations to support first responders

The funding will meet critical needs for up to 1,000 military family members affected by the 2017 Hurricane Season

Walmart and the Walmart Foundation commit up to $5 million in cash and product to assist Puerto Rico with recovery efforts

The Three Finalists – Chakr Innovation, Drinkwell and Farmerline – will compete live on stage at the 2017 Forbes Under 30 Summit, Oct. 2, in Boston #Under30Summit

This announcement builds upon $2.2 million committed today by Walmart de México y Centroamérica to assist organizations leading earthquake relief efforts.

Xylem donates $1 million in financial and volunteer aid to hurricane relief in the US & Caribbean, and financial aid to relief efforts in South Asia.

For a second time, Walmart will match customer donations two-to-one with additional cash and product donations of up to $10 million

Donations and needed supplies to assist organizations leading Irma’s relief efforts

Donations and needed supplies to assist organizations leading Gulf Coast relief efforts