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Modern slavery
In business operations and supply chains
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Corporate Legal Accountability
Concise profiles of lawsuits against companies accused of human rights abuses & commentaries
Human rights defenders
Cases and action for human rights defenders at risk
Climate justice
What must business do to address the biggest human rights challenge of our time?
Binding treaty
Global debate on a proposed UN treaty
UN Guiding Principles
Includes implementation tools & examples, information on UN Working Group
Major sporting events
Human rights and business at the World Cup, Olympics and more
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Business action
Practical tools for companies and commentaries by business people
Chinese investment overseas
Guidance, cases and company responses
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Digital freedom
Freedom of expression, privacy and the right to protest
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Natural resources
Fairness & accountability in companies’ use of oil, gas, coal, minerals, land and water
Tax avoidance
The links between corporate tax practices and human rights
In-depth areas
International
- 📄 Law Firm Business and Human Rights Peer Learning Process
- 📄 Investor state dispute settlement (ISDS)
- 📄 OHCHR Accountability and Remedy Project
- 📄 Company policy statements on human rights
- 📄 Global Child Forum 2014 - a call for urgent action by governments and business
- 📄 Panel discussion: “The workplace: Addressing racial discrimination & promoting diversity"
- 📄 International business and human rights organizations
- 📄 Company policies
- 📄 Intelligence Bureau says Foreign-funded NGOs are stalling development - activists deny, says attempt to undermine
- 📄 Proposals for Intl. Tribunal on corporate liability for human rights abuses
- 📄 Reporting
- 📄 Business tools and guidance
- 📄 Working Group
- 📄 Institute for Multi-Stakeholder Initiative Integrity (MSI Integrity)
- 📄 Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP): Background, commentaries & media coverage on human rights concerns
- 📄 Rights and Accountability in Development report re Och-Ziff & Zimbabwe - 2014
- 📄 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP): Background & commentaries on social & environmental impacts
- 📄 "Carving up a continent" report by WDM, and company responses
- 📄 Report assesses financial institutions' responsibility to respect human rights: Case study on extractives
- 📄 Labour Day (1 May 2014)
- 📄 Climate chane, business & human rights - week of 28 Apr 2014
- 📄 FIDH Briefing Paper on business & human rights "Enhancing Standards and Ensuring Redress" (2014)
- 📄 World Water Day 2014
- 📄 Where Open Net and Human Rights Met
- 📄 Information technology - the power and responsibility of business
- 📄 RightsCon conference on human rights in information & communications tech sectors - 2014
- 📄 Access to medicines - key international standards
- 📄 Torture & ill-treatment - an introduction
- 📄 Commentaries on "Supercapitalism" by Robert Reich
- 📄 Climate change websites
- 📄 G4S-UNI agreement
- 📄 Environment - An introduction
- 📄 Prison labour
- 📄 Death penalty - key international standards
- 📄 Rape & sexual abuse - an introduction
- 📄 2008 report by John Ruggie to Human Rights Council, and related material
- 📄 HIV/AIDS - an introduction
- 📄 2009 report by John Ruggie to Human Rights Council
- 📄 Oxfam report "Investing for Life": Company responses & Oxfam rejoinder
- 📄 World Water Day and related events 2009
- 📄 Indigenous peoples - an introduction
- 📄 Human Rights First, “Private Security Contractors at War: Ending the Culture of Impunity”: company responses & non-responses, Jan 2008
- 📄 Reporte de John Ruggie al Consejo de Derechos Humanos de la ONU, 2007
- 📄 Reports by John Ruggie to UN Human Rights Council
- 📄 Launch of the Sir Geoffrey Chandler speaker series, London, 4 Dec 2007
- 📄 Abbott & human rights
- 📄 John Ruggie interim report to Human Rights Council, Feb 2006
- 📄 Text of business & human rights standards
- 📄 Child labour - an introduction
- 📄 Human rights impact and compliance assessments
- 📄 Unfair trial - key international standards
- 📄 Forced labour - an introduction
- 📄 Deaths - key international standards
- 📄 War on Want report & responses
- 📄 United Nations Sub-Commission Norms on business & human rights: Explanatory materials
- 📄 Access to water - an introduction
- 📄 Cultural issues - key international standards
- 📄 Follow the money
- 📄 UN Global Compact:
- 📄 International Women's Day 2009 - reports & initiatives
- 📄 Racial & ethnic groups - key international standards
- 📄 In memory of E. Cary Brown
- 📄 Gender discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Supply chain/"Fair trade" - an introduction
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2008
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2006
- 📄 ICCR AIDS report & responses
- 📄 Living wage - key international standards
- 📄 John Ruggie 2007 report to UN Human Rights Council
- 📄 Illness - key international standards
- 📄 Injuries – key international standards
- 📄 Blacksmith Institute: The 2007 Worst Polluted Places
- 📄 Education - key international
- 📄 FNV report on Unilever & company response
- 📄 Abduction - an introduction
- 📄 Resources for business schools
- 📄 Age discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Arbitrary detention - an introduction
- 📄 Export processing zones - key international standards
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2009
- 📄 World AIDS Day: 1 Dec 2007
- 📄 Complicity - an introduction
- 📄 "Business & Human Rights: 3 perspectives": 4 Dec 2007, London
- 📄 SOMO "overviews of controversial business practices 2008" - and company responses
- 📄 12 introductory reports on business & human rights
- 📄 Death threats - key international standards
- 📄 Labour - an introduction
- 📄 Killings - an introduction
- 📄 Migrant workers - an introduction
- 📄 Genocide - an introduction
- 📄 Side event: "Engaging NHRIs in securing the promotion and protection of human rights in business"
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Portal: Latest additions
- 📄 Modern-day Slavery
- 📄 Forest Peoples Programme, Sawit Watch & TUK Indonesia report: "Conflict or consent? The oil palm sector at crossroads"
- 📄 Observatory of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Commentaries
- 📄 Due diligence
- 📄 ITU & UNICEF consultation on Guidelines for Industry on Child Online Protection
- 📄 Warsaw Climate Change Conference (Warsaw, Poland, 11-22 Nov 2013)
- 📄 Measuring Business & Human Rights
- 📄 Our 2013 highlights and 2014 plans - please consider supporting our work
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Natl. Human Rights Institutions
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Legal organizations
- 📄 "Ranking Digital Rights" project
- 📄 Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2013
- 📄 Indigenous Rights Risk Report 2013 - Company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2014
- 📄 World Economic Forum - Davos 2014
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Intergovernmental organizations
- 📄 Human rights impact assessment of the EU Everything But Arms initiative in Cambodia – includes EU response
- 📄 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice & Human Rights - 2013
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Events
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Investors
- 📄 German companies’ surveillance technology allegedly used in connection with human rights abuses by authoritarian govts.
- 📄 Twitter re decision to censor tweets in certain countries
- 📄 International Women's Day 2011
- 📄 Film re Nestlé's impacts on access to water: "Bottled Life - The Truth about Nestlé's Business with Water"
- 📄 May 2, 2013 in NYC - Launch of Just Business
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2011
- 📄 UN Forum on Business & Human Rights 2012 - Coverage & commentaries
- 📄 BHP Billiton: Dirty Energy - Alternative Annual Report 2011
- 📄 Online consultation for the Children's Rights and Business Principles Initiative
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2013
- 📄 Free, prior and informed consent
- 📄 Clinton Global Initiative 2010 - company commitments
- 📄 Briefing on business & freedom of association
- 📄 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development
- 📄 HSBC money laundering allegations
- 📄 Business and human rights-themed videos, films and documentaries
- 📄 “Calling for Corporate Accountability: A Guide to the 2011 OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises”
- 📄 Ma Jun to give keynote address: Mary Robinson Speaker Series, 7 Nov 2011, New York City
- 📄 Short videos & news items
- 📄 UN Working Group on business & human rights
- 📄 Freedom of Association bulletin
- 📄 Testimony before Canadian Parliament re Barrick & Porgera JV (Papua New Guinea)
- 📄 Business’ human rights responsibilities in conflict zones: Standards, tools and perspectives
- 📄 Netsweeper’s silence on its reported role in Pakistan’s internet filtering programme
- 📄 Company responses re lawsuit against SEC over final rule accompanying section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Act
- 📄 Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2012
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2011
- 📄 Quarterly Bulletin on Business and Children
- 📄 "Room for Debate: The Human Cost of Cheap Clothing" (New York Times, Dec 2012)
- 📄 Public Eye nominations 2012 - Company responses & non-responses
- 📄 World Day Against Child Labour 2013 - selected media coverage
- 📄 Hershey statements re child labour in cocoa production
- 📄 Summaries of John Ruggie consultations - Oct 2010
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2012
- 📄 ITUC paper "Free Speech and Freedom of Associatio: Finding the Balance" - responses
- 📄 World Water Day 2013
- 📄 Videos in other languages (Arabic, Chinese)
- 📄 SOMO report examines records of 8 extractive companies on human rights & tax avoidance (2013)
- 📄 PMSC Bulletin
- 📄 Public Eye nominations 2011 - Company responses
- 📄 Critiques of Guiding Principles by Amnesty Intl., Human Rights Watch, FIDH, others - debate with Ruggie
- 📄 "The politics of corporate social responsibility: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations"
- 📄 World Water Week 2010
- 📄 US Govt’s Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements - reports, comments, guidelines & company responses
- 📄 Call for input - report on business & human rights and UN system - 2012
- 📄 AFL-CIO report on failures of social audits & certification at protecting workers rights - 2013
- 📄 Tributes to Sir Geoffrey Chandler, 1922-2011
- 📄 Rebecca MacKinnon interview (London, 6 March 2012)
- 📄 "Towards Social Assessment" - Fondation des Droits de l'Homme au Travail
- 📄 Oil pollution
- 📄 "More Shine than Substance" - Report on Responsible Jewellery Council by unions & NGOs (2013)
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles & UN Working Group Portals - announcement
- 📄 International Commission of Jurists - Access to Justice, Country Reports
- 📄 Launch of the Mary Robinson Speaker Series, 26 Oct 2010
- 📄 G20 Summits in Russia & OECD report on tax avoidance
- 📄 UN Arms Trade Treaty
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2010
- 📄 UN Global Compact - human rights tools & guidance, local network activities
- 📄 Voluntary Principles plenary - Sep 2011
- 📄 Selection of articles on bio-piracy
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2013
- 📄 John Ruggie speech
- 📄 Tax Justice Network reports 2012 - responses & non-responses by banks
- 📄 ICJ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity - Invitation for Submissions
- 📄 Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010
- 📄 Apple Supplier Responsibility report 2011 - coverage including NGO comments
- 📄 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (Sep 2013)
- 📄 Gold Dialogues
- 📄 Intl. Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC): Signatory Companies
- 📄 Ma Jun: Keynote speaker at Mary Robinson Speaker Series, New York, 7 Nov 2011
- 📄 In Their Words - Advocates talk about their work on the human rights impacts of business
- 📄 Deutsche Post DHL - re alleged anti-union activity in Turkey
- 📄 World Water Day and related events 2012
- 📄 June 2013 G8 summit tax avoidance coverage
- 📄 Side event on Children's Rights & Business
- 📄 Dutch OECD NCP final statement on complaint accusing Shell of issuing misleading statements on oil spills (2013)
- 📄 Company responses to Platform report: “Making a Killing: Oil Companies, Tax Avoidance and Subsidies” – Feb 2013
- 📄 Shift & Mazars discussion paper on developing global human rights reporting & assurance standards
- 📄 Business & Human Rights: The next 5 years
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign calls on fashion companies to ban sandblasting
- 📄 Speaker Series events
- 📄 World Water Week 2013: Actions by companies
- 📄 SOMO report on car manufacturers - company responses
- 📄 International standards
- 📄 Racial/ethnic/caste/origin discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Child soldiers
- 📄 Accountability Mechanisms
- 📄 Sourcing from conflict zones
- 📄 Global Network Initiative - media coverage & responses (Oct 2008)
- 📄 Humanitarian relief
- 📄 Environment
- 📄 Pregnancy discrimination
- 📄 UN Guiding Principle 16 - Policy Commitment
- 📄 Discrimination
- 📄 Development & poverty
- 📄 Linking development & human rights - an introduction
- 📄 Genetically-modified food/crops - key international standards
- 📄 Consultations on the Children's Rights and Business Principles Initiative - Feedback from children and youth ages 7-17
- 📄 Marital status discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Political opinion discrimination - key international standards
- 📄 Commitments by companies at Clinton Global Initiative - 2009
- 📄 Children's Rights & Business
- 📄 Policy Innovations panel Mar 2007
- 📄 Hillary Clinton speech on Internet freedom, Jan 2010 - NGO reactions
- 📄 Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Apple & environmental issues
- 📄 Blacksmith Institute - World's Most Polluted Places 2006
- 📄 Submissions to UN Special Representative John Ruggie - and responses
- 📄 Business & Children
Africa
- 📄 Exploitation minière et droits humains au Sénégal - rapport d'Amnesty International, 2014
- 📄 Amnesty report re mining & human rights in Senegal - 2014
- 📄 Francophone Africa briefing - 2014
- 📄 Briefing Afrique francophone - 2014
- 📄 UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing statement re Merowe dam, Sudan, 27 Aug 2007 - and company responses
- 📄 Darfur proxy statements
- 📄 Chinese arms to Zimbabwe
- 📄 Diamond Dialogue
- 📄 WACAM & FIAN responses regarding Akyem project
- 📄 Amnesty Intl report on impact of oil industry on human rights in Nigeria and company responses
- 📄 Commentaries on Wiwa v Shell settlement, June 2009
- 📄 Sir Geoffrey Chandler speaker series: 2nd annual event (2 Dec 2008)
- 📄 Bench Marks report re ArcelorMittal So. Africa and company response - 2013
- 📄 So. Africa: Bench Marks Foundation says Lonmin has failed to live up to its CSR commitments for 10 years; company responds
- 📄 Amnesty, CEHRD report alleges manipulation of oil spill probes by Shell and Agip
- 📄 Berne Declaration report re oil trading & Nigeria - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Mining Indaba 2014
- 📄 Allegations of pharmaceutical group's planned opposition to So. Africa reforms to increase access to medicines
- 📄 Cameroon Network of Human Rights Organizations Report (Jan 2014)
- 📄 So. Africa: Report that Chinese mining firm demanded workers waive rights
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Rapport du Centre pour l'Environnement & le Développement (Cameroun)
- 📄 International Hydropower Association responses to concerns about partnership with Ethiopia - July 2011
- 📄 Procès COMILOG (Gabon)
- 📄 UNEP report re oil pollution in Niger Delta
- 📄 Alleged child labour in supply chain of Cargill, Barry Callebaut & Archer Daniels Midland in the Ivory Coast
- 📄 ActionAid report into tax avoidance by Associated British Foods in Zambia
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Report by Centre for Environment & Development (Cameroon)
- 📄 Sudan internet shutdown September 2013
- 📄 Marikana Commission of Inquiry into the Lonmin massacre
- 📄 Ethiopia: "Unheard Voices" report re large-scale land acquisitions - 2013
- 📄 Gibe 3 Dam impacts in Kenya & Ethiopia, and company responses - June 2011
- 📄 UNESCO suspends Obiang prize - NGO reactions
- 📄 Famine in the Horn of Africa - private sector response (2011)
- 📄 "Are mining profits ethically earned?" - asks John Capel about Africa's mining industry [2012]
- 📄 Human Rights Watch report on impacts of mining industry in Mozambique (May, 2013)
- 📄 Lonmin mine deaths in South Africa - August 2012
- 📄 So. Africa: One-year anniversary of massacre at Lonmin’s Marikana mine
- 📄 Letter to hotel chains regarding human trafficking at the World Cup & company responses
- 📄 Fidelity, Vanguard statements re genocide
Asia Pacific
- 📄 Shwe gas & Myanmar-China oil transport projects (Apr-Jun 2013)
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign report "Cashing In" and company responses
- 📄 China labour law reform
- 📄 Rana Plaza building collapse, April 2013
- 📄 Cambodia: Allegations of forced evictions at Borei Keila - Jan - Feb 2012
- 📄 Harassment against Ed Cubelo, President of Toyota Motor Philippines Corporation Workers’ Association
- 📄 The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh - one year on
- 📄 Myanmar: Thilawa Special Economic Zone – summary of impacts, company responses and updates
- 📄 Australia's banks investment in companies accused of land grab (Oxfam report, Apr 2014) - companies responses
- 📄 Human Rights Impact Assessment of Tampakan Copper-Gold Project, Mindanao, Philippines
- 📄 The Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh - one year on
- 📄 Workshop on remedies for business-related human rights abuses (22 March 2014, Myanmar)
- 📄 Safety concerns with Dapeng LNG natural gas pipeline, running underground in downtown Shenzhen (2014)
- 📄 Alleged forced evictions at Porgera, Papua New Guinea - and Barrick Gold response
- 📄 Mining in the Philippines
- 📄 Birmanie & les entreprises
- 📄 National Labor Committee report on conditions for production of crucifixes - company responses
- 📄 Sidoarjo mud volcano
- 📄 National Labor Committee report "Nightmare on Sesame Street" & company responses
- 📄 SACOM Report re: Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages Sep 2009
- 📄 Angola - diamonds: Responses by diamond companies to report on abuses related to diamond mining in Cuango, Angola
- 📄 Evictions at Dey Krahorm in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- 📄 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, 2 Dec 2009
- 📄 Attacks near Freeport's Grasberg mine, West Papua, Indonesia - Jul 2009
- 📄 Google statement on China, and responses - Jan 2010
- 📄 Company contributions to hurricane relief in Cuba, Haiti, USA (2008)
- 📄 Burma and Business
- 📄 "Mining in the Philippines – Mining or Food?" report & company responses/non-responses
- 📄 National Labor Committee report & company responses
- 📄 SACOM electronics report company responses 2007
- 📄 Shanxi brick factories
- 📄 Birmania y las empresas
- 📄 Company contributions to Sichuan, China, earthquake relief (2008)
- 📄 Company contributions to Burma cyclone relief (2008)
- 📄 Burma Campaign report on insurance firms - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Burma: Kachin Development Networking Group calls for halt to Myitsone dam - Oct 2009
- 📄 Burma 'Dirty List' & company responses
- 📄 Fortune China CSR
- 📄 "If not now, when?"
- 📄 Reports and statements on lawsuits filed by Natural Fruit against researcher and activist Andy Hall for alleged defamation
- 📄 Cambodia: Crackdown on garment workers protesting for higher wages - Jan 2014
- 📄 Philippine Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda – company contributions to humanitarian aid (Nov 2013)
- 📄 Chevron response re environmental pollution trial in Ecuador
- 📄 Concerns regarding Intex Resources' Mindoro Nickel Project in the Philippines, and company response
- 📄 Greenpeace report finds stockpiles of fertilizer waste hazardous to health near Chinese villages - companies invited to respond (Apr 2013)
- 📄 Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights report re alleged abuses at supplier factories in Bangladesh
- 📄 Asahi Kosei libel suit against Malaysian labour activist Charles Hector - June 2011
- 📄 Cividep report on working conditions in mobile phone manufacturing plants in Sriperumbudur, Chennai, India - and company responses
- 📄 Chinese NGO Report on Apple, Jan 2011
- 📄 Google ends its censorship in China - commentary, Mar 2010
- 📄 Company responses regarding NGO report on pollution by IT firms' suppliers in China
- 📄 Chevron response re Burma
- 📄 Killings - West Papua - October 2011
- 📄 Japan earthquake & tsunami - company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 Allegations regarding labour rights abuses at E-Garment factory in Cambodia
- 📄 Reports on worker complaint at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - May 2011
- 📄 Bangladesh garment companies' actions against labour leaders
- 📄 China Labor Watch submission to UN Working Group on business & human rights
- 📄 Company responses/non-responses re impacts of planned InfraVest wind turbines in Yuanli, Taiwan
- 📄 Labour concerns at Winson Sturdy Products factory - August 2011
- 📄 Letter from civil society groups to POSCO investors regarding steel project in Odisha, India - and company responses
- 📄 Cambodia: Resumption of forced evictions following government sub-decree - Sep 2011
- 📄 Laogai Research Foundation report - Jan 2011
- 📄 Monywa copper mine protests - Burma, Sept 2012
- 📄 Shwe Gas Movement Report - September 2011
- 📄 Wintek workers' letters to Apple - Feb 2011
- 📄 SACOM Report - LOCOG’s Empty Promise to Respect Labour Rights: Olympic mascots made in sweatshops
- 📄 Indigenous & rights groups protest against Sarawak dam
- 📄 SACOM report re: ICTI CARE certification of Chinese toy factories - Feb 2011
- 📄 Nov 20, 2013 - 3-5pm in NYC: The Rana Plaza Disaster in Bangladesh: Taking Stock Half a Year On - And marking one year since the Tazreen factory fire
- 📄 Burma: Displacement, other concerns at Dawei (Tavoy) deep-sea port project - Jan 2011
- 📄 Protests over the Bahrain Grand Prix 2012
- 📄 Resource Centre mission to Bangladesh, June 2011
- 📄 China Labor Watch report re alleged use of child labour in Samsung supplier factory
- 📄 Allegations of pollution in Apple's supply chain in China - Sep 2011
- 📄 Fiji - Anti-union decree - 2011
- 📄 Foxconn suicides - 2010
- 📄 Gamma Intl. and internet monitoring concerns in Pakistan
- 📄 Japan's nuclear reactor crisis: TEPCO responsibility and impacts - Mar 2011
- 📄 Pakistan Govt tender for an internet filtering and blocking system
- 📄 Latest concerns re Apple supply chain - Jan-Feb 2012
- 📄 Displacement of Boeung Kak residents (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) - August 2011
- 📄 Striking garment factory workers in Cambodia
- 📄 "Cambodia Clean Sugar" campaign - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project - and company responses
- 📄 Environmental record of Chinese banks & company responses - August 2011
- 📄 Porgera Joint Venture complaints mechanism for rape victims - MiningWatch concerns
- 📄 Call for oil companies to practice revenue transparency in Burma & company responses
- 📄 Pakistan Floods- company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 SEPA water pollution report Oct 2006
- 📄 September 2009 EarthRights reports re Burma & company responses
- 📄 Microsoft statements re Internet censorship in China
- 📄 Ole Wolff allegations & responses
- 📄 Vedanta response to ActionAid report "Vedanta Cares? Busting the myths about Vedanta’s operation in Lanjigarh, India"
- 📄 Barrick Gold response re Amnesty International concerns over forced evictions and police violence near Porgera mine, Papua New Guinea
Americas
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Deaths/injuries from explosion
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - General articles on lawsuits & legal issues
- 📄 Know the Chain – See which companies do and do not have statements under the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (2014)
- 📄 US Govt. proposals for carbon emissions control on energy sector - 2014
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2014
- 📄 Coalition of Immokalee Workers campaign for Ahold to join Fair Food Program
- 📄 Toxic 100 & company responses - 2008
- 📄 Haiti earthquake - company contributions to humanitarian aid, Jan 2010
- 📄 Sitios web de las empresas
- 📄 NLC report re Chi Fung Factory - Feb 2010
- 📄 Allegations against Ford for abuses during the military dictatorship (1976-1983)
- 📄 US legal doctrines
- 📄 Concerns re working conditions at Monclova Internacional, Mexico
- 📄 Subsidizing Sweatshops report & company responses
- 📄 Mandé Norte/Murindó project, Colombia - 2009
- 📄 Global Horizons
- 📄 Allegations of spying by security guards for Yanacocha mine, Peru
- 📄 So. American flower farms
- 📄 Allegations of anti-union activities by Glencore, Unión Fenosa in Colombia, Aug 2007
- 📄 Jordan factories
- 📄 Minera Dolores (Minefinders), Chihuahua, México - 2008
- 📄 Alegaciones de anti-sindicalismo por parte de Glencore y Unión Fenosa en Colombia, agosto 2007
- 📄 Pereyra case, Ingenio Tabacal, Sep 2006
- 📄 Alegaciones de espionaje e intimidación por parte de empresa Forza, quien presta seguridad a Yanacocha
- 📄 Vale accused of illegal spying on employees & infiltrating social & environmental movements
- 📄 Honduras: Investigation into World Bank's Intl. Finance Corporation investment in Corporación Dinant (Dec 2013)
- 📄 Alleged death threats against protesters of wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012
- 📄 Exchanges between Excellon Resources and ProDESC, Mexico, Sep-Oct 2013
- 📄 Oil industry lobbying regarding section 1504 of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act (USA): Concerns, company responses
- 📄 USA: Report raises concerns about IMO-certified Theo Chocolate's alleged anti-union activities
- 📄 NGO Reactions to defeat of C-300 (Canada) - Oct 2010
- 📄 Human Rights First letter and Vigeo statement re tech companies and US Govt's PRISM program - and company responses / non-responses
- 📄 Kiobel: US Supreme Court Review of Alien Tort Claims Act - Background Materials
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Consolidated proceedings
- 📄 US Dodd-Frank law - SEC vote on extractive industry revenue transparency, Aug 2012
- 📄 Guatemala: San Rafael mine violence - Sep 2012
- 📄 Ocean Sky El Salvador - report on working conditions & company responses, Jan 2011
- 📄 Informe de Oxfam: “Divide y comprarás: Una nueva forma de concentrar tierras baldías en Colombia"
- 📄 Tufts University report on Goldcorp's Marlin mine in Guatemala
- 📄 Zijin Mining's Rio Blanco project -- reports on conflict & company responses, Apr 2011
- 📄 Concerns about the impacts of oil projects on indigenous rights in NE Peru - responses by Perenco, Repsol
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Livelihood
- 📄 Peaceful protesters against Excellon's La Platosa mine threatened with force (Aug-Sep 2012)
- 📄 Human Rights Assessment of Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in Guatemala
- 📄 Update on oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
- 📄 US extractive industries transparency law - NGO responses
- 📄 Extractives and Ethnic Rights in Colombia, 2012
- 📄 Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut - arms firms and investment in the arms industry
- 📄 Taller Internacional CME
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Health of cleanup workers
- 📄 Allegations of lack of judicial integrity in Texaco/Chevron lawsuits (re Ecuador) - plaintiffs' lawyers respond // Alegaciones de faltas a la integridad judicial en el caso Chevron/Texaco en Ecuador - los abogados de los demandantes responden
- 📄 Blackfire Exploration response re allegations of human rights abuses in connection with its mine in Chiapas, Mexico
- 📄 Deepwater Horizon explosion & spill: Coverage of first anniversary, Apr 2011
- 📄 Recent allegations of workplace discrimination against Muslims in USA
- 📄 US Supreme Court decision re Wal-Mart - analysis (Jun 2011)
- 📄 Report on Alianza Fashion factory in Guatemala & company responses
- 📄 Paraguay: Survival Intl. says Carlos Casado (part of Grupo San José) is destroying indigenous group's lands & calls on investors to take action
- 📄 Gilead, AIDS Healthcare Foundation & access to medicines - 2011
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon exploision & oil spill Lawsuits - Health of residents
- 📄 US Senate Internet freedom hearing - 2 Mar 2010
- 📄 DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
- 📄 Statements by human rights groups on forced labour in Florida, USA - Dec 2008
- 📄 Mossville report - July 2007
- 📄 Terremoto en Haití - contribuciones de empresas a la ayuda humanitaria (enero, 2010)
- 📄 Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, Colombia, July 2008
- 📄 Burger King & tomato workers in Florida, USA
Europe and Central Asia
- 📄 Russian banks accused of funding pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine
- 📄 EU requirements on companies' non-financial reporting (2014)
- 📄 UK Joint Committee on Human Rights - Report on business & human rights
- 📄 Howitt draft
- 📄 RusHydro dam disaster
- 📄 Accusations des violations des droits du travail chez Menderes - réponses des grandes marques
- 📄 Death of Anita Roddick, 10 September 2007: Articles & tributes
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