Recognized for its initiatives to solve diverse social challenges related to human rights, corruption and local community while enhancing its own corporate governance

TOKYO, Aug. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — transcosmos inc. is proud to announce that the company has been selected as an FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index constituent for the first time. The index represents the performance of listed Japanese companies that demonstrate specific environmental, social and governance (ESG) practices.

(About FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index)
The FTSE Blossom Japan Index series is a global ESG index developed by FTSE Russell, a fully owned subsidiary of the London Stock Exchange. The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index represents the environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance of Japanese companies relative to other companies in their respective sectors.

Investors worldwide refer to the index series when making key investment decisions. In Japan, the index series is adopted and used by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), the world’s largest public pension fund, for benchmarking for passive ESG investments.

(transcosmos Sustainability Initiatives) https://www.trans-cosmos.co.jp/english/company/sustainability/sdgs.html
In 2021, transcosmos established the transcosmos SDGs Committee chaired by the Representative Director & Chairman, and put in place a framework specifically designed to execute its initiatives towards meeting social challenges and expectations with a focus on ESG criteria. In addition, with the purpose of creating a sustainable society and boosting the well-being of society as a whole, transcosmos has set out its fundamental sustainability policy.

Under the fundamental sustainability policy, transcosmos is driving its SDGs initiatives in line with its roadmap. To date, transcosmos has declared its support for the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and its recommendations to address climate change, and has disclosed climate-related financial information aligned with the recommendations of the TCFD. To become a Sustainable Transformation (SX) Partner for all, transcosmos is taking actions to address a range of social challenges related to human rights, corruption, and local communities while enhancing its own corporate governance. transcosmos believes that the company has been recognized for such activities and has now been named an FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index constituent.

transcosmos will continue to drive initiatives to address social challenges through its superior business activities while maximizing the well-being of society to create a sustainable society.

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About transcosmos inc.
transcosmos launched its operations in 1966. Since then, we have combined superior “people” with up-to-date “technology” to enhance the competitive strength of our clients by providing them with superior and valuable services. transcosmos currently offers services that support clients’ business processes focusing on both sales expansion and cost optimization through our 171 bases across 28 countries/regions with a focus on Asia, while continuously pursuing Operational Excellence. Furthermore, following the expansion of e-commerce market on the global scale, transcosmos provides a comprehensive One-Stop Global E-Commerce Services to deliver our clients’ excellent products and services to consumers in 46 countries/regions around the globe. transcosmos aims to be the “Global Digital Transformation Partner” of our clients, supporting the clients’ transformation by leveraging digital technology, responding to the ever-changing business environment. Visit us here https://www.trans-cosmos.co.jp/english/

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The SBB Research Group Foundation celebrates the success of Bryanna Godfrey after receiving STEM Scholarship

CHICAGO, Aug. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The SBB Research Group Foundation is proud to highlight the continued success of Bryanna Godfrey after receiving the STEM Scholarship in 2021. The $2,500 award empowers students to create value for society by pursuing higher learning through interdisciplinary combinations of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Godfrey received the SBB Research Group Foundation STEM Scholarship during her senior year at Stanford University while pursuing a degree in Human Biology.

After being awarded the scholarship, Godfrey focused on independent projects in her lab, collecting cell-free RNA from cerebrospinal fluid samples to investigate gene expression in breast cancer patients with brain metastases. While continuing her research until graduation, Godfrey also volunteered as a teaching assistant for a free introductory neuroscience course at the International Youth Neuroscience Association. Godfrey is currently planning to matriculate at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons in the fall of 2023 to pursue a medical degree.

“Bryanna has a very promising medical career ahead of her, and I’m so pleased we could be a step on her path to her medical degree,” said Matt Aven, co-founder and board member of the SBB Research Group Foundation.

The SBB Research Group Foundation is honored to have played a role in Godfrey’s success. We look forward to continuing to support outstanding students in STEM and helping them achieve their full potential.

For eligibility criteria and more information on the Foundation’s STEM scholarship, please visit http://www.sbbscholarship.org.

About the SBB Research Group Foundation
The SBB Research Group Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that furthers the philanthropic mission of SBB Research Group LLC (SBBRG), a Chicago-based investment management firm led by Sam Barnett, Ph.D., and Matt Aven. The Foundation sponsors the SBB Research Group Foundation STEM Scholarship, supporting students pursuing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) degrees. In addition to its scholarship program, the Foundation provides grants to support ambitious organizations solving unmet needs with thoughtful, long-term strategies.

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Erin Noonan, SBB Research Group Foundation, 1-847-656-1111, [email protected]

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WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
June 16, 2023

PRESS ADVISORY

Why is America Better After Dobbs reversed Roe v. Wade

WHAT: Amicus Parties In The Dobbs case who asked the Supreme Court to Reverse Roe v. Wade explain why America is better now

WHO: Operation Outcry Women Injured By Abortion and The Moral Outcry Founder, Melinda Thybault

WHERE: VIA ZOOM RSVP here to receive Zoom link

WHEN: June 20, 2023, at 3:00pm Eastern Daylight Time, 2:00pm Central Daylight Time, 1:00pm Mountain Daylight Time and 12:00pm Pacific Daylight Time.

INTERVIEWS:

Allan E. Parker, Cynthia – Louisiana, Myra – Texas, Mary – Missouri,

Tijuanna – Alabama, Tracy – Texas, Sue – Ohio, Luana – Iowa, Serena – Iowa, Millie – Arkansas, Melinda Thybault The Moral Outcry Petition Founder – Kansas City

KEY DETAILS:

CONTACT:

Allan E. Parker, President or Tracy Reynolds, info@txjf.org or (210) 614-7157.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (PRWEB)
February 21, 2023

Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Rights (OPRR) and Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom will submit The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety amendment and summary to the Ohio Attorney General for review today. The petitions will be filed under Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights. The two groups are working together to place the issue on the 2023 statewide general election ballot.

Legal counsel and representatives of both groups drafted the amendment language and summary and then collected thousands of signatures from Ohio voters in less than two days–far exceeding the 1,000 required by state law.

“Ohioans are perilously close to losing access to safe, legal, comprehensive reproductive medical care,” OPRR executive director Dr. Lauren Beene said. “As we saw first-hand when Ohio’s abortion ban went into effect last year, withholding that care puts people’s lives and health at risk. This common-sense amendment ensures that physicians will be able to provide the care our patients need and deserve free from government interference.”

“The tremendous and unprecedented level of grassroots support for our effort to constitutionally protect reproductive rights and abortion access is truly inspiring and demonstrates how necessary this issue is for Ohioans,” OPRR president Dr. Marcela Azevedo said. “Now that we have taken this critical first step in the process, we are eager to begin collecting the signatures needed to place the amendment on the ballot so Ohioans, rather than government and extremist politicians, have the opportunity to determine the future of reproductive health care in our state.”

“Our proposal will amend the state Constitution to explicitly affirm Ohioans’ fundamental right to reproductive freedom, which includes making and carrying out your own decisions about abortion, contraception, miscarriage care, prenatal care, childbirth, and other reproductive healthcare services,” added Professor Jessie Hill, who has worked closely with Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom and the ACLU of Ohio. “Right now, we have extremist politicians who are eager to bring back a dangerous six-week abortion ban, and who want to go even further to limit Ohioans’ reproductive freedoms. These decisions rightfully belong to patients and physicians, and that’s why we’re putting this issue before the people.”

“Ohioans deserve the right to safe and legal abortion care in our communities, they should not be forced to travel out-of-state to get healthcare,” stated Dr. Sri Thakkilapati of Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom. “The power to make reproductive health decisions must be in the hands of the person seeking care. Our grassroots initiative empowers Ohioans to determine their own futures and puts power where it rightly belongs, in the hands of the people. We are energized and eager to see the ballot amendment through to victory.”

Under the laws that govern the citizen-initiated constitutional amendment process, the Attorney General will have up to 10 days to approve the summary of the amendment. If approved, the Attorney General certifies the issue to the Ohio Ballot Board, which then has up to 10 days to determine that the language contains only one constitutional amendment. After certification by the Ballot Board, the Attorney General files the amendment and its summary with the Secretary of State. At that point, the petitioners may begin the statewide signature-gathering effort. The groups must collect and submit 413,488 valid signatures by July 5, 2023.

**The two groups are hosting a joint press conference today at 2 pm. Media wishing to attend must register to attend the zoom meeting here.**

Amendment Summary and Text language can be viewed at ProtectChoiceOhio.com/Petition_Language

TITLE

The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety

SUMMARY

The Amendment would amend Article I of the Ohio Constitution by adding Section 22, titled “The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety.”

The Amendment provides that:

1. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive decisions, including but not limited to decisions on contraception, fertility treatment, continuing one’s own pregnancy, miscarriage care, and abortion.

2. The State shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either an individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or a person or entity that assists an individual in exercising this right, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care.

3. However, abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. But in no case may such an abortion be prohibited if, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.

4. As used in this Section, “Fetal viability” means “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. This is determined on a case-by-case basis,”; and “State” includes any governmental entity and political subdivision.

5. This Section is self-executing.

FULL TEXT OF PROPOSED AMENDMENT

Be it Resolved by the People of the State of Ohio that Article I of the Ohio Constitution is amended to add the following Section:

Article I, Section 22. The Right to Reproductive Freedom with Protections for Health and Safety

A. Every individual has a right to make and carry out one’s own reproductive

decisions, including but not limited to decisions on:

1. contraception;

2. fertility treatment;

3. continuing one’s own pregnancy;

4. miscarriage care; and

5. abortion.

B. The State shall not, directly or indirectly, burden, penalize, prohibit, interfere with, or discriminate against either:

1. An individual’s voluntary exercise of this right or

2. A person or entity that assists an individual exercising this right, unless the State demonstrates that it is using the least restrictive means to advance the individual’s health in accordance with widely accepted and evidence-based standards of care. However, abortion may be prohibited after fetal viability. But in no case may such an abortion be prohibited if, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, it is necessary to protect the pregnant patient’s life or health.

C. As used in this Section:

1. “Fetal viability” means “the point in a pregnancy when, in the professional judgment of the pregnant patient’s treating physician, the fetus has a significant likelihood of survival outside the uterus with reasonable measures. This is determined on a case-by-case basis.”

2. “State” includes any governmental entity and any political subdivision.

D. This Section is self-executing.

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WASHINGTON (PRWEB)
January 20, 2023

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, new interactive maps from Power to Decide’s Abortion Finder provide a compelling illustration of the terrible new chapter for abortion access that’s unfolded over the past year.

“January 22 would have – and should have – marked the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade,” said Power to Decide CEO Raegan McDonald-Mosley, MD, MPH. “But instead of reflecting on the progress made in improving reproductive well-being for people over the last half-century, we are again fighting for the right to access abortion care. The new abnormal for abortion as well as reproductive well-being more broadly can be described in only one word: chaos.”

The Abortion Finder interactive maps convey the chaos sparked by the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, which rolled back generations of reproductive rights by overturning Roe v. Wade – and now jeopardizes the reproductive rights of generations to come.

In some states, the impact was felt well before the actual decision was released. For instance, following the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision in May, Oklahoma became the first state in the nation to begin enforcing a total ban on abortion, and South Dakota’s sole abortion provider closed in anticipation of Dobbs.

Only 48 hours after the ruling, abortion care providers had closed across nine states. The following months were filled with legal confusion and uncertainty, as abortion bans and restrictions were variously implemented, challenged, enforced and/or lifted in states across the country.

As a result, 14 states are now without a health center that offers any abortion care, impacting more than 72 million people, including more than 15 million people who could become pregnant.

“The barriers to abortion access have always been disproportionately high for young people, people of color, people living in rural areas, and people struggling to make ends meet,” said Dr. McDonald-Mosley. “These new abortion bans and restrictions put people’s health at risk and ignore the critical need for such care.

“Abortion care is every bit as necessary as it was before Dobbs, or Roe, or at any point in history. It is essential, time-sensitive care that protects people’s health, their families and their lives. With Abortion Finder and other resources from Power to Decide, we will continue to connect people with information and access to care as quickly and seamlessly as possible.”

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Power to Decide is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that works to advance sexual and reproductive well-being for all by providing trusted information, expanding access to quality services, and catalyzing culture change.

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DALLAS (PRWEB)
January 02, 2023

Heroic Media’s Board of Directors and its Chief Executive Officer, Brett Attebery, are pleased to announce that Michael (Mike) J. Murray has joined the Heroic Media team as President. Attebery had served as both President and CEO since November 2020, and will continue to serve as the organization’s CEO while Murray takes over the President position. Murray will lead Heroic Media’s marketing and fundraising operations, while Attebery will oversee execution of the organization’s overall strategic plan.

Attebery commented, “Heroic Media made a major strategic decision last year to invest in building the first national non-abortion-providing women’s healthcare brand that can outcompete Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry nationwide. Rather than attempt to build that brand from the ground up, we believe it is more prudent to invest in the expansion of an existing brand that already has a proven track record of outcompeting Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, Missouri: ThriVe® Express Women’s Healthcare.”

Attebery continued, “Our stakeholders have already enthusiastically invested significantly in this new brand-building mission by underwriting the expansion of the ThriVe® brand and its new telehealth service, ThriVe+, in both Oklahoma City and Philadelphia. As ThriVe® proved in St. Louis, building a brand that outcompetes Planned Parenthood requires significant financial resources to sustain a comprehensive advertising program over the long term. Our stakeholders are excited about investing in the expansion of the ThriVe® brand with the goal of making it young women’s preferred healthcare brand nationwide, so we believe now is the time to add to our team a seasoned executive who has a stellar track record of marketing and fundraising success. Mike fits that description perfectly, and we are very excited that he will be leading our marketing and fundraising operations.”

Murray commented, “I have always loved Heroic Media’s mission to save lives from abortion. I previously served as the Executive Director of Heroic Media’s Dallas office over a decade ago, and I am excited to come back on to the team to lead its marketing and fundraising efforts. I believe Heroic Media’s focus on offering only programs that show measurable impact at saving lives, as well as its approach of using sound business principles to compete against the abortion industry, resonates deeply with philanthropists.”

Mike Murray is a licensed attorney who has served in development leadership roles with The Catholic Foundation and Catholic Charities in Dallas and most recently nationally with PragerU as Vice President of Development. Mike and his wife Colette have five children and live in Dallas.

“I am grateful to Brett and the Board of Directors for the opportunity to serve in such an impactful way. I look forward to working with Brett and the exceptionally talented Heroic Media team to help Americans who oppose abortion invest in building the first national counter brand to Planned Parenthood,” said Murray.

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