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In the wake of ArcelorMittal - the global steel giant's local impacts  new

The publication shows how local residents, workers and the environment pay the price for ArcelorMittal's success. The compilation contains case studies examining Mittal's IFC- and EBRD-financed plants in Romania, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Czech Republic and Kazakhstan.

http://www.bankwatch.org/publications/document.shtml?x=2093577

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Offside!: labour rights and sportswear production in Asia

This report considers 12 international sports brands - Adidas, ASICS, FILA, Kappa, Lotto, Mizuno, New Balance, Nike, Puma, Reebok, Speedo and Umbro - and examines the steps they take to ensure their suppliers in Asia allow workers to organise trade unions and bargain collectively for better wages and conditions. It gives a detailed description of each of the companies corporate social responsibility approaches and behaviour. (T Connor, K Dent, Oxfam, 2006)

http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what_we_do/issues/trade/downloads/offside_sportswear.pdf

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"Transgenic Seed Companies Lie and Bribe" Interview with Jesus Leon Santos

Biotech corporations that developed genetically modified seeds are bribing authorities and carrying out costly advertising campaigns "plagued with lies in order to create monsters that attack life," says Jesus Leon Santos, an indigenous man who is one of the 2008 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. (IPS, 24 April 2008)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42116

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Coke Pepsi and the Politics of Food Safety

Recent events in India show that Coke and Pepsi have firmly joined the group of toxic and hazardous products that need to be banned to protect the health of citizens and to protect the environment. Not only does Coca-Cola steal the water of local communities, it pollutes what it doesn't take. In addition, the soft drink giants have succeeded in making the youth of India ashamed of indigenous food culture in spite of its nutrition and safety through their aggressive-advertising. (Vandana Shiva, Zmag, September 06, 2006)

http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2006-09/06shiva.cfm

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Indigenous Community to Take Oil Company to Court

For thirty years the Achuar people in the Corrientes River basin were unable to stop outsiders from polluting their environment. Now, the indigenous group is about to become the first in Peru to take legal action, as it plans to file suit against the oil companies it blames for the damages, including on their health. (Milagros Salazar, IPS, 17 August 2006)

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=34380

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Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial

Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence". The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as "inaccurate and misleading". (David Adam, Guardian, 20 September 2006)

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm

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The Case Against Coke

In the past two years the Coke campaign has grown into the largest anticorporate movement since the campaign against Nike for sweatshop abuses. Around the world, dozens of unions and more than twenty universities have banned Coke from their facilities, while activists have dogged the company from World Cup events in London to the Winter Olympics in Torino. More than just the re-emergence of the corporate boycott, however, the fight against Coke is a leap forward in international cooperation. Coke, with its red-and-white swoosh recognizable everywhere from Beijing to Baghdad, is perhaps the quintessential symbol of the US-dominated global economy. The fight to hold it accountable has, in turn, broadly connected issues across continents to become a truly globalized grassroots movement. (Michael Blanding, The Nation, 13 April 2006)

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060501/blanding

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Watershed Anti-sweatshop Legislation Introduced in the U.S. Congress

For the first time, anti-sweatshop legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress which will prohibit the import, export or sale of sweatshop goods in the U.S. Up to this point, it has been the companies that have demanded and won all sorts of enforceable laws -intellectual property and copyright laws backed up by sanctions - to defend their corporate trademarks, labels and products. On Thursday, June 8, in what some believe will be looked back upon as a watershed moment Senator Byron Dorgan introduced Senate Bill 3485, "The Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act" which will, for the first time, hold corporations legally accountable to respect the core International Labor Organization worker rights standards - no child labor, no forced labor, freedom of association, right to organize and bargain collectively and to decent working conditions. (NLC, 2006)

http://www.nlcnet.org/live/article.php?id=35

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"Most Wanted" Corporate Human Rights Violators of 2005

This list of "MOST WANTED" corporate criminals gives you information about the abusive behavior of this year's top fourteen worst corporations, tells you who is responsible, and how to connect with and support people who are doing something about it. The more you know, the less these corporations can continue their abuses out of public eyesight: so share this information with your friends, get on the phone with the CEOs themselves, and exercise your rights as a citizen and consumer today. Global Exchange.

http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html

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"The Opacity Of Oil: Oil Corporations, Internal Violence, And International Law" [PDF - 94Kb]

Robert Dufresne Journal of International Law & Politics. Volume 36, Numbers 2-3 Report which argues that "there is serious evidence that oil corporations' interests and power reach far beyond [mainstream politics]... and often touch the very core of the most fundamental problem in political theory, i.e., the legitimate use of violence and of the coerced imposition and preservation of order."

http://www.law.nyu.edu/journals/jilp/issues/36/36_2_3_Dufresne.pdf

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2004 Lifeworth Annual review of Corporate Responsibility (PDF 1118 KB)

by Jem Bendell, Mark Bendell, Kate Kearins, Kate Ives and Wayne Visser. Lifeworth.com, January 2005. This free online publication combines the quarterly reviews of the premiere academic publication in the field, the Journal of Corporate Citizenship. It provides you with international analysis of the main trends of 2004, insights into the future, as well as some proposals for future work on corporate responsibility. As an agency helping people and organisations come together in the field of corporate responsibility, Lifeworth has produced this resource to promote more informed consideration and practice of corporate responsibility.

http://www.jembendell.com/lw2004/lw2004.pdf

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A new type of conglomerate?

Multinationals know they must adapt to survive and be seen to behave ethically. One hope is that they'll become GIEs, globally integrated enterprises, harnessing the inventive talent of developing countries. (Nick Mathiason, Guardian, July 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,1824249,00.html

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Acres loses appeal on bribery charge in Lesotho

(Odiuos Debts) Globe and Mail, August 18/2003. By Karen MacGregor Durban: Canadian engineering firm Acres International Ltd. lost an appeal against conviction on a charge of bribery in a high-profile corruption case in Lesotho on Friday - but won its fight against a second graft conviction and had a whopping fine of $4.2-million reduced to $2.8-million. The Oakville, Ont., firm - the first of three multinationals charged with bribing a top official to win lucrative contracts in the $3.3-billion Lesotho Highlands Water Project, which delivers water to Lesotho and South Africa - was convicted last year of two counts of corruption. It was the first conviction by a developing country of a bribe-giving western company.

http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=8145

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Activist Resigns as McDonald's Takes 'Green' Seat

WASHINGTON, Jun 3 (IPS) - The recent appointment of fast food giant McDonald's to the advisory board of an environmental group has drawn accusations of ''green washing'' from environmentalists and led one board member to resign in protest. But both the company and the group strongly deny the accusations. Paul Hawken, a well-known activist and environmentalist respected for his strong opposition to corporate globalisation, resigned two weeks ago from the Green Business Network (GBN), a Washington-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) that says it is working to make businesses adopt better environmental practices. "McDonald's doesn't have the expertise, the credibility or the values to be on the steering committee of a green business," Hawken, a board member since the NGO started its operation in 2000, told IPS in an interview.

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=18595

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Activists win symbolic victory at Exxon meeting

A majority of Exxon Mobil Corp. investors voted in favor of a proposal opposed by the oil company, as fury over fat CEO compensation helped give activists their first such victory in Exxon's history. All this comes alongside consumer fury over soaring gasoline prices and growing anger among environmentalists over Exxon's controversial stance questioning the science behind global warming. (Deepa Babington, Reuters AlertNews, 31 May 2006)

http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36605/newsDate/1-Jun-2006/story.htm

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Afghanistan, Inc: A Corpowatch Investigative Report (pdf)

Fariba Nawa, an Afghan-American who returned to her native country to examine the progress of reconstruction, uncovers some examples of where the money has (and hasn't) gone, how the system of international aid works (and doesn't), and what it is really like in the villages and cities where outsiders are rebuilding the war-torn countryside. (Fairba Nawa, CorpWatch, May 2006)

http://corpwatch.org/downloads/CorpWatch%20Afghan%20report.pdf

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Bank chief underscores importance of corporate social responsibility during Second Committee Panel Discussion on Global Compact's Progress

Corporate social responsibility was essential to easing the tension between social justice and entrepreneurial drive, and failure to achieve that balancing act could put market capitalism at risk, Bunmi Akinremi, Deputy of the New York Branch of Nigeria's United Bank for Africa, warned during a panel discussion held by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) under the theme "Highlighting the progress made to date of the UN Global Compact -- the UN's voluntary corporate citizenship initiative", which aims to make global markets more sustainable and inclusive.

http://media-newswire.com/release_1056946.html

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BAT's big wheeze - the alternative British American Tobacco Social and Environmental Report

Lisa Rimmer. April 2004. (pdf 899.6 KB) British American Tobacco is the world's second largest multinational cigarette company. Headquartered in London, BAT sells cigarettes and other tobacco products in 180 markets around the world. Yet BAT makes products that kill people in their hundreds of thousands, year after relentless year. BAT has a 15 per cent share of the world tobacco market, second only to the American multinational Philip Morris. Five million people across the world die from smoking-related diseases every year. By the 2020s, as the children of today reach middle age, this figure is expected to double to ten million. Seven million of these deaths will be in developing countries, where health services are already hopelessly under-resourced and over-stretched.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/bats_big_wheeze.pdf

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Behind the mask: The Real Face of Corporate Social Responsibility

Christian Aid, 21.01.04. The image of multinational companies working hard to make the world a better place is often just that - an image, says a new report from Christian Aid. What's needed are new laws to make businesses responsible for protecting human rights and the environment wherever they work.

http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/0401csr/index.htm

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BehindTheLabel.org

BehindTheLabel.org is a multimedia news magazine and on-line community covering the stories and people of the global clothing industry - the hidden stories of the millions of workers around the world who make our clothes, the people who care how their clothes are made and the multinational corporations behind the labels

http://www.behindthelabel.org/

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Betting the Bank on the Bomb

The ethical investment choices of the NZ Super Fund compared with those of the Norway Pension Fund. (Dr. Russel Norman Co-Leader, Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand, 9 February 2007)

http://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greens.org.nz%2Fdocs%2Fother%2FNorway%2520Pension%2520Fund%2520v%2520NZ%2520Super%2520Fund%2520Final.pdf&ei=lz_vRcmFMoT-gwOg3YHACA&usg=__Ls4zi5LUJ_utBIFB6tRrdpM5Law=&sig2=MMwNO-GHeOGyp24lxW

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Big Oil moves ahead on human rights, slowly

The world's major oil companies are responding to years of public pressure to address human rights concerns tied to their operations in second- and third-world countries. Several companies have come out with explicit human rights protection policy statements, in what human rights groups have called a promising first step. (Reuters, 27 September 2006)

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20060927/oil-human-rights-exxon.htm

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Big Pharma Digs In

The nations of the world are currently debating how to design new medical research and development (R&D) mechanisms to serve the twin goals of promoting innovation to meet the particular needs of developing countries and ensuring that important medicines are accessible to people in the developing world, regardless of their income. (by Robert Weissman, Common Dreams, May 2, 2008)

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/02/8664/

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British politicians 'taken in by Kalahari PR campaign'

Since 1997 more than 1,500 Gana and Gwi Bushmen have been evicted from their homes in the Kalahari, where diamond deposits have been found. After the Botswanean government organised a tour for a British parliamentary group, its misister has promised to "set the record straight" by disputing allegations that the evictions of Bushmen from are unwelcome. This has angered over human rights groups like Survival International, who say the suffering of the people of the Kalahari is being hidden by a massive PR campaign. (Ben Flanagan, Guardian Weekly, April 2006)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/outlook/story/0,,1761749,00.html

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Bulldozing Progress: Human Rights Abuse and Corruption in PNG's Large Scale Logging Industries

The logging industry in Papua New Guinea is dominated by a handful of Malaysian companies and is is synonymous with political corruption, police racketeering and the brutal repression of workers, women and those who question its ways. Its operations routinely destroy the food sources, water supplies and cultural property of those same communities. They provide a breeding ground for arms smuggling, corruption and violence across the country. In return, the industry generates no lasting economic benefit to forest communities, considerable long-term cost and a modest 5 per cent contribution to the national budget. A concerted international effort backed by credible enforcement agencies is now needed to reform the industry and restore the human and economic rights of PNG forest communities. (Australian Conservation Foundation, 2006)

http://www.acfonline.org.au/uploads/res_ACF-CELCOR_full.pdf#search=%22Bulldozing%20%22

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