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Famine in the Horn of Africa - private sector response (2011)
Author: Compiled by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
These are examples of significant company contributions, not a comprehensive list...Donations...Other initiatives
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Alcatel-Lucent Best Buy British Airways Cargill Deutsche Telekom France Telecom (now Orange) General Mills HSBC Kenya Commercial Bank Lufthansa Orange PepsiCo Procter & Gamble Safaricom Singapore Airlines T-Mobile (part of Deutsche Telekom) TNT (part of TPG) Total TPG UPS Verizon Virgin Atlantic (joint venture Virgin Group & Singapore Airlines) Virgin Group Walt Disney
Gay slur casts a shadow on us all [Australia]
Author: Brisbane Times [Australia]
[T]he gay American novelist Armistead Maupin and his partner Chris Turner were in Alice Springs, where they visited one of the town's better-known restaurants, Bojangles Saloon. When Turner asked if he could use the men's room, he was directed to a...
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney)
Full Text of Human Rights Record of United States in 2008 [China]
Author: Information Office, State Council of the PRC, republished in People's Daily [China]
Section IV: On Racial Discrimination...Discrimination in employment is commonplace…The jobless rate for Blacks was 10.6 percent, twice that of the Whites…The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission…received 30,510 charges concerning employment...
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Walt Disney
Child Labor [India]
Author: Megha Bahree, Forbes
The [Indian] government itself, in its most recent account...estimates that 12.6 million children under the age of 14 are at work in India...Monsanto, Syngenta and Bayer, all working under the glare of labor monitors like Glocal, are grappling with...
- Related stories: India: Forbes cover story highlights scale of child labour - & links with US, European companies
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Bayer Gap Home Depot IKEA Lowe's Macy's Monsanto Syngenta
Black ABC engineer sues Disney over noose display [USA]
Author: Reuters
A black engineer [Oswald Wilson] sued Disney's American Broadcasting Co...saying his supervisors refused to remove a black doll that dangled from a hangman's noose near his work station for more than a year…The lawsuit accuses American Broadcasting Co...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest Legal News
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Walt Disney
Author: Observatoire sur la Responsabilité Sociale des Entreprises
Comme le rappelle l'accord interprofessionel du 1er mars 2004...une étude de l'INSEE de 2000..."estime à 5% l'écart résiduel qui, ne pouvant être expliqué par [des effets de secteur et de structure], apparaît comme discriminatoire"... Les entreprises...
Primetime Torture
Author: Human Rights First
The Problem: Torture on TV on the Rise......
- Related stories: Human Rights First says US interrogators take cues on torture from TV shows, including Fox's "24" & Disney/ABC's "Lost"
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Fox Entertainment (part of News Corporation) General Electric NBC (joint venture General Electric & Vivendi) News Corporation Vivendi Walt Disney
Human Rights First says US interrogators take cues on torture from TV shows, including Fox's "24" & Disney/ABC's "Lost"
US rights group says torture seen on television influences interrogators in Iraq
Author: Associated Press
The advocacy group Human Rights First says there has been a startling increase in the number of torture scenes depicted on prime-time television in the post-2001 world. Even more chilling, there are indications that real-life American interrogators...
- Related stories: Human Rights First says US interrogators take cues on torture from TV shows, including Fox's "24" & Disney/ABC's "Lost"
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Fox Entertainment (part of News Corporation) General Electric HBO (part of Time Warner) NBC (joint venture General Electric & Vivendi) News Corporation Sony Time Warner Viacom Vivendi Walt Disney
Disney's PR Strategy Unhealthy for 'Little Consumers'
Author: Michele Simon, AlterNet
The announcement this week by Disney that the company is placing nutrition guidelines on licensed food products aimed at children...is just the latest effort by Corporate America to save its tarnished image. Reporters are guilty of jumping every time...
- Related in-depth areas: Nutrition, including babymilk
- Related companies: ABC (part of Walt Disney) Cadbury Schweppes (now Cadbury) Carlyle Group Coca-Cola Dr Pepper/Seven Up Bottling Group (now Dr Pepper Snapple Group) McDonald's Walt Disney