Ethical Insight is taking a seasonal break and will be back as usual on 14 January 2009. In the meantime, the Maplecroft Team would like to extend to you its warmest season’s greetings and wish you every success for 2009.

Regular readers will have seen that in 2008, we incorporated Ethical Insight into our Global Risks Portfolio - a subscription-only service enabling access to our risk publications, indices, interactive risk mapping and risk forecasting that many of the world’s leading companies now use in their risk management systems. Please register at www.global-risks.com for a free trial. New additions to our services include:

Political Risk Report 2009

Order Maplecroft's innovative national, sub-national and site-specific political risk indices and country scorecards. Discounts apply to orders placed before 2009. Apply to: politicalrisk@maplecroft.com

Human Rights Risk Report 2009

Maplecroft launches its unique set of 30 indices, country rankings and scorecards, and GIS-derived maps showing risk across 24 categories of human rights violations at national and site-specific levels. More information: humanrights@maplecroft.com

UN Global Compact Announces Project with Maplecroft on Human Rights Dilemmas for Responsible Business

The UN Global Compact and Maplecroft implement a three-year project on human rights dilemmas and solutions funded by the GE Foundation