In recent years, Singapore’s Built Environment (BE) sector has been plagued with much negativity relating to various social issues ranging from workplace safety to workers’ welfare. The problem could be attributed to the sector’s conflicting agenda b...

What constitutes Human Rights in the Workplace ?

Human rights are often seen as perplexing, complex issues that most organisations find hard to grapple with or think these are simply not applicable to their business. Human rights are in fact, very muc...

Last week, the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB) released its inaugural results. The CHRB uses 100 human rights indicators to benchmark 98 of the world’s largest publically traded companies in three sectors (agriculture, apparel and extractives...

We celebrated International Women’s Day in Singapore this week in true AVGC style—with a cocktail in hand, at W Singapore - Sentosa Cove’s What She Said event. The evening featured a candid discussion with Singapore Fashion Award’s 2016 Emerging Desi...

Having a social mission and being socially responsible are company assets that can help boost internal and external engagement. Integrating and seeing it as part of your business strategy will help you be in tune with your customers and create a mor...

Many of us working in the responsible business and impact investment space can sometimes feel like the only reason we create impact reports, is to tell others how great we are…..just so that we can make more money.

There is some truth to that equati...