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Corporate Legal Accountability
Concise profiles of lawsuits against companies accused of human rights abuses & commentaries
Pacific Region & Human Rights
Under reported business and human rights issues, allegations of abuse and local voices.
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Mandatory Due Diligence
News & thought leadership on momentum towards due diligence laws
Gender and Human Rights
Recognising and valuing the voices and leadership of women in business & human rights
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Beyond Social Auditing
What are the solutions and reform options for social auditing?
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Modern slavery
In business operations and supply chains
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Technology and Human Rights
Opportunities and risks for human rights created by new and emerging technologies
Climate justice
What must business do to address the biggest human rights challenge of our time?
Human rights defenders
Track attacks & find tools for positive company action on civic freedoms.
UN Guiding Principles
Includes implementation tools & examples, information on UN Working Group
Chinese investment overseas
Guidance, cases and company responses
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Natural Resources
Accountability and transparency in the development and use of energy, minerals, land & water
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
- 📄 International business and human rights organizations
- 📄 Panel discussion: “The workplace: Addressing racial discrimination & promoting diversity"
- 📄 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
- 📄 Digital freedom
- 📄 Working Group
- 📄 Reporting
- 📄 Business tools and guidance
- 📄 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
- 📄 Blacksmith Institute: The 2007 Worst Polluted Places
- 📄 FNV report on Unilever & company response
- 📄 Side event: "Engaging NHRIs in securing the promotion and protection of human rights in business"
- 📄 Resources for business schools
- 📄 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
- 📄 Tax avoidance
- 📄 Labour - an introduction
- 📄 John Ruggie 2007 report to UN Human Rights Council
- 📄 Killings - an introduction
- 📄 Genocide - an introduction
- 📄 Text of business & human rights standards
- 📄 Commentaries on "Supercapitalism" by Robert Reich
- 📄 Climate change websites
- 📄 G4S-UNI agreement
- 📄 Access to medicines - key international standards
- 📄 Torture & ill-treatment - an introduction
- 📄 World Water Day and related events 2009
- 📄 Environment - An introduction
- 📄 Prison labour
- 📄 Death threats - key international standards
- 📄 Rape & sexual abuse - an introduction
- 📄 HIV/AIDS - an introduction
- 📄 Migrant workers - an introduction
- 📄 Reports by John Ruggie to UN Human Rights Council
- 📄 Launch of the Sir Geoffrey Chandler speaker series, London, 4 Dec 2007
- 📄 Abbott & human rights
- 📄 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
- 📄 UN Global Compact
- 📄 Child labour - an introduction
- 📄 Unfair trial - key international standards
- 📄 Forced labour - an introduction
- 📄 Death penalty - key international standards
- 📄 Deaths - key international standards
- 📄 2008 report by John Ruggie to Human Rights Council, and related material
- 📄 United Nations Sub-Commission Norms on business & human rights: Explanatory materials
- 📄 2009 report by John Ruggie to Human Rights Council
- 📄 Oxfam report "Investing for Life": Company responses & Oxfam rejoinder
- 📄 Supply chain/"Fair trade" - an introduction
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2008
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2006
- 📄 ICCR AIDS report & responses
- 📄 International Women's Day 2009 - reports & initiatives
- 📄 Racial & ethnic groups - key international standards
- 📄 In memory of E. Cary Brown
- 📄 Gender discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Cultural issues - key international standards
- 📄 Education - key international
- 📄 Abduction - an introduction
- 📄 Follow the money
- 📄 John Ruggie interim report to Human Rights Council, Feb 2006
- 📄 Living wage - key international standards
- 📄 Human rights impact and compliance assessments
- 📄 War on Want report & responses
- 📄 Illness - key international standards
- 📄 Access to water - an introduction
- 📄 Injuries – key international standards
- 📄 Export processing zones - key international standards
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2009
- 📄 World AIDS Day: 1 Dec 2007
- 📄 Age discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Arbitrary detention - an introduction
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Portal: Latest additions
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Intergovernmental organizations
- 📄 "Ranking Digital Rights" project
- 📄 Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2013
- 📄 Indigenous Rights Risk Report 2013 - Company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Measuring Business & Human Rights
- 📄 Our 2013 highlights and 2014 plans - please consider supporting our work
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Events
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Investors
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2014
- 📄 World Economic Forum - Davos 2014
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Commentaries
- 📄 Modern-day Slavery
- 📄 Forest Peoples Programme, Sawit Watch & TUK Indonesia report: "Conflict or consent? The oil palm sector at crossroads"
- 📄 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
- 📄 Due diligence
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Natl. Human Rights Institutions
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Legal organizations
- 📄 ITU & UNICEF consultation on Guidelines for Industry on Child Online Protection
- 📄 Warsaw Climate Change Conference (Warsaw, Poland, 11-22 Nov 2013)
- 📄 Observatory of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 BHP Billiton: Dirty Energy - Alternative Annual Report 2011
- 📄 Online consultation for the Children's Rights and Business Principles Initiative
- 📄 Free, prior and informed consent
- 📄 Clinton Global Initiative 2010 - company commitments
- 📄 Ma Jun to give keynote address: Mary Robinson Speaker Series, 7 Nov 2011, New York City
- 📄 UN Working Group on business & human rights
- 📄 International Women's Day 2011
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2011
- 📄 World Water Week 2010
- 📄 AFL-CIO report on failures of social audits & certification at protecting workers rights - 2013
- 📄 "More Shine than Substance" - Report on Responsible Jewellery Council by unions & NGOs (2013)
- 📄 G20 Summits in Russia & OECD report on tax avoidance
- 📄 "The politics of corporate social responsibility: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations"
- 📄 UN Global Compact - human rights tools & guidance, local network activities
- 📄 US Govt’s Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements - reports, comments, guidelines & company responses
- 📄 Company responses re lawsuit against SEC over final rule accompanying section 1502 of Dodd-Frank Act
- 📄 Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2012
- 📄 Quarterly Bulletin on Business and Children
- 📄 "Room for Debate: The Human Cost of Cheap Clothing" (New York Times, Dec 2012)
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2012
- 📄 HSBC money laundering allegations
- 📄 Videos in other languages (Arabic, Chinese)
- 📄 Hershey statements re child labour in cocoa production
- 📄 Summaries of John Ruggie consultations - Oct 2010
- 📄 PMSC Bulletin
- 📄 Public Eye nominations 2011 - Company responses
- 📄 Critiques of Guiding Principles by Amnesty Intl., Human Rights Watch, FIDH, others - debate with Ruggie
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2011
- 📄 In Their Words - Advocates talk about their work on the human rights impacts of business
- 📄 June 2013 G8 summit tax avoidance coverage
- 📄 Dutch OECD NCP final statement on complaint accusing Shell of issuing misleading statements on oil spills (2013)
- 📄 Shift & Mazars discussion paper on developing global human rights reporting & assurance standards
- 📄 ICJ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity - Invitation for Submissions
- 📄 Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010
- 📄 World Water Week 2013: Actions by companies
- 📄 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (Sep 2013)
- 📄 Tax Justice Network reports 2012 - responses & non-responses by banks
- 📄 Public Eye nominations 2012 - Company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Call for input - report on business & human rights and UN system - 2012
- 📄 Rebecca MacKinnon interview (London, 6 March 2012)
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles & UN Working Group Portals - announcement
- 📄 Company responses to Oxfam's campaign: "Behind the Brands - Food Justice and the 'Big 10' Food and Beverage Companies"
- 📄 World Water Day 2013
- 📄 Tributes to Sir Geoffrey Chandler, 1922-2011
- 📄 "Towards Social Assessment" - Fondation des Droits de l'Homme au Travail
- 📄 Oil pollution
- 📄 Launch of the Mary Robinson Speaker Series, 26 Oct 2010
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2010
- 📄 Voluntary Principles plenary - Sep 2011
- 📄 John Ruggie speech
- 📄 German companies’ surveillance technology allegedly used in connection with human rights abuses by authoritarian govts.
- 📄 May 2, 2013 in NYC - Launch of Just Business
- 📄 Briefing on business & freedom of association
- 📄 “Calling for Corporate Accountability: A Guide to the 2011 OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises”
- 📄 SOMO report on car manufacturers - company responses
- 📄 Freedom of Association bulletin
- 📄 UN Forum on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Intl. Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers (ICoC): Signatory Companies
- 📄 Deutsche Post DHL - re alleged anti-union activity in Turkey
- 📄 World Water Day and related events 2012
- 📄 Company responses to Platform report: “Making a Killing: Oil Companies, Tax Avoidance and Subsidies” – Feb 2013
- 📄 International Commission of Jurists - Access to Justice, Country Reports
- 📄 UN Arms Trade Treaty
- 📄 Selection of articles on bio-piracy
- 📄 Side event on Children's Rights & Business
- 📄 Business & Human Rights: The next 5 years
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign calls on fashion companies to ban sandblasting
- 📄 Speaker Series events
- 📄 Apple Supplier Responsibility report 2011 - coverage including NGO comments
- 📄 Gold Dialogues
- 📄 Ma Jun: Keynote speaker at Mary Robinson Speaker Series, New York, 7 Nov 2011
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2013
- 📄 World Day Against Child Labour 2013 - selected media coverage
- 📄 ITUC paper "Free Speech and Freedom of Associatio: Finding the Balance" - responses
- 📄 Testimony before Canadian Parliament re Barrick & Porgera JV (Papua New Guinea)
- 📄 SOMO report examines records of 8 extractive companies on human rights & tax avoidance (2013)
- 📄 Business’ human rights responsibilities in conflict zones: Standards, tools and perspectives
- 📄 Netsweeper’s silence on its reported role in Pakistan’s internet filtering programme
- 📄 Twitter re decision to censor tweets in certain countries
- 📄 Film re Nestlé's impacts on access to water: "Bottled Life - The Truth about Nestlé's Business with Water"
- 📄 UN Forum on Business & Human Rights 2012 - Coverage & commentaries
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2013
- 📄 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development
- 📄 Business and human rights-themed videos, films and documentaries
- 📄 Short videos & news items
- 📄 Child soldiers
- 📄 Racial/ethnic/caste/origin discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Sourcing from conflict zones
- 📄 Accountability Mechanisms
- 📄 Global Network Initiative - media coverage & responses (Oct 2008)
- 📄 International standards
- 📄 Pregnancy discrimination
- 📄 Discrimination
- 📄 UN Guiding Principle 16 - Policy Commitment
- 📄 Development & poverty
- 📄 Humanitarian relief
- 📄 Environment
- 📄 Linking development & human rights - an introduction
- 📄 Genetically-modified food/crops - key international standards
- 📄 Children's Rights & Business
- 📄 Marital status discrimination - an introduction
- 📄 Political opinion discrimination - key international standards
- 📄 Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Commitments by companies at Clinton Global Initiative - 2009
- 📄 Consultations on the Children's Rights and Business Principles Initiative - Feedback from children and youth ages 7-17
- 📄 Policy Innovations panel Mar 2007
- 📄 Hillary Clinton speech on Internet freedom, Jan 2010 - NGO reactions
- 📄 Apple & environmental issues
- 📄 Blacksmith Institute - World's Most Polluted Places 2006
- 📄 Submissions to UN Special Representative John Ruggie - and responses
- 📄 Business & Children
Africa
- 📄 Ugandan Oil Industry Mapping
- 📄 Amnesty report re mining & human rights in Senegal - 2014
- 📄 Exploitation minière et droits humains au Sénégal - rapport d'Amnesty International, 2014
- 📄 Briefing Afrique francophone - 2014
- 📄 Francophone Africa briefing - 2014
- 📄 UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing statement re Merowe dam, Sudan, 27 Aug 2007 - and company responses
- 📄 Darfur proxy statements
- 📄 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)
- 📄 Chinese arms to Zimbabwe
- 📄 Diamond Dialogue
- 📄 WACAM & FIAN responses regarding Akyem project
- 📄 Berne Declaration report re oil trading & Nigeria - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Mining Indaba 2014
- 📄 Cameroon Network of Human Rights Organizations Report (Jan 2014)
- 📄 Allegations of pharmaceutical group's planned opposition to So. Africa reforms to increase access to medicines
- 📄 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
- 📄 Bench Marks report re ArcelorMittal So. Africa and company response - 2013
- 📄 International Hydropower Association responses to concerns about partnership with Ethiopia - July 2011
- 📄 So. Africa: Report that Chinese mining firm demanded workers waive rights
- 📄 Sudan internet shutdown September 2013
- 📄 Marikana Commission of Inquiry into the Lonmin massacre
- 📄 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)
- 📄 Human Rights Watch report on impacts of mining industry in Mozambique (May, 2013)
- 📄 So. Africa: One-year anniversary of massacre at Lonmin’s Marikana mine
- 📄 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)
- 📄 Procès COMILOG (Gabon)
- 📄 "Are mining profits ethically earned?" - asks John Capel about Africa's mining industry [2012]
- 📄 Lonmin mine deaths in South Africa - August 2012
- 📄 UNEP report re oil pollution in Niger Delta
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Rapport du Centre pour l'Environnement & le Développement (Cameroun)
- 📄 Letter to hotel chains regarding human trafficking at the World Cup & company responses
- 📄 Fidelity, Vanguard statements re genocide
Asia Pacific
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign report "Cashing In" and company responses
- 📄 Rana Plaza building collapse, April 2013
- 📄 China labour law reform
- 📄 Shwe gas & Myanmar-China oil transport projects (Apr-Jun 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
- 📄 Burma: Kachin Development Networking Group calls for halt to Myitsone dam - Oct 2009
- 📄 Company contributions to hurricane relief in Cuba, Haiti, USA (2008)
- 📄 Burma and Business
- 📄 National Labor Committee report "Nightmare on Sesame Street" & company responses
- 📄 SACOM Report re: Coca-Cola and Swire Beverages Sep 2009
- 📄 National Labor Committee report on conditions for production of crucifixes - company responses
- 📄 Sidoarjo mud volcano
- 📄 Burma Campaign report on insurance firms - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Burma 'Dirty List' & company responses
- 📄 Fortune China CSR
- 📄 Evictions at Dey Krahorm in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- 📄 Company contributions to Burma cyclone relief (2008)
- 📄 25th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster, 2 Dec 2009
- 📄 Attacks near Freeport's Grasberg mine, West Papua, Indonesia - Jul 2009
- 📄 Angola - diamonds: Responses by diamond companies to report on abuses related to diamond mining in Cuango, Angola
- 📄 Google statement on China, and responses - Jan 2010
- 📄 National Labor Committee report & company responses
- 📄 "Mining in the Philippines – Mining or Food?" report & company responses/non-responses
- 📄 Birmania y las empresas
- 📄 Company contributions to Sichuan, China, earthquake relief (2008)
- 📄 SACOM electronics report company responses 2007
- 📄 Shanxi brick factories
- 📄 Reports and statements on lawsuits filed by Natural Fruit against researcher and activist Andy Hall for alleged defamation
- 📄 Philippine Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda – company contributions to humanitarian aid (Nov 2013)
- 📄 Cambodia: Crackdown on garment workers protesting for higher wages - Jan 2014
- 📄 "If not now, when?"
- 📄 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
- 📄 Indigenous & rights groups protest against Sarawak dam
- 📄 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
- 📄 Chevron response re Burma
- 📄 China Labor Watch submission to UN Working Group on business & human rights
- 📄 Reports on worker complaint at TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - May 2011
- 📄 Bangladesh garment companies' actions against labour leaders
- 📄 Labour concerns at Winson Sturdy Products factory - August 2011
- 📄 Cambodia: Resumption of forced evictions following government sub-decree - Sep 2011
- 📄 Killings - West Papua - October 2011
- 📄 Japan earthquake & tsunami - company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 Gamma Intl. and internet monitoring concerns in Pakistan
- 📄 The Price of Steel: Human Rights and Forced Evictions in the POSCO-India Project - and company responses
- 📄 Foxconn suicides - 2010
- 📄 Monywa copper mine protests - Burma, Sept 2012
- 📄 SACOM Report - LOCOG’s Empty Promise to Respect Labour Rights: Olympic mascots made in sweatshops
- 📄 Protests over the Bahrain Grand Prix 2012
- 📄 Letter from civil society groups to POSCO investors regarding steel project in Odisha, India - and company responses
- 📄 China Labor Watch report re alleged use of child labour in Samsung supplier factory
- 📄 Resource Centre mission to Bangladesh, June 2011
- 📄 Allegations of pollution in Apple's supply chain in China - Sep 2011
- 📄 Fiji - Anti-union decree - 2011
- 📄 Laogai Research Foundation report - Jan 2011
- 📄 Shwe Gas Movement Report - September 2011
- 📄 Wintek workers' letters to Apple - Feb 2011
- 📄 SACOM report re: ICTI CARE certification of Chinese toy factories - Feb 2011
- 📄 Burma: Displacement, other concerns at Dawei (Tavoy) deep-sea port project - Jan 2011
- 📄 Greenpeace report finds stockpiles of fertilizer waste hazardous to health near Chinese villages - companies invited to respond (Apr 2013)
- 📄 Call for oil companies to practice revenue transparency in Burma & company responses
- 📄 Pakistan Floods- company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 Pakistan Govt tender for an internet filtering and blocking system
- 📄 "Cambodia Clean Sugar" campaign - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Latest concerns re Apple supply chain - Jan-Feb 2012
- 📄 Displacement of Boeung Kak residents (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) - August 2011
- 📄 Environmental record of Chinese banks & company responses - August 2011
- 📄 Japan's nuclear reactor crisis: TEPCO responsibility and impacts - Mar 2011
- 📄 Allegations regarding labour rights abuses at E-Garment factory in Cambodia
- 📄 Company responses/non-responses re impacts of planned InfraVest wind turbines in Yuanli, Taiwan
- 📄 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 environmental pollution trial in Ecuador
- 📄 Concerns regarding Intex Resources' Mindoro Nickel Project in the Philippines, and company response
- 📄 Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights report re alleged abuses at supplier factories in Bangladesh
- 📄 Striking garment factory workers in Cambodia
- 📄 Porgera Joint Venture complaints mechanism for rape victims - MiningWatch concerns
- 📄 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
- 📄 Jordan factories
- 📄 Minera Dolores (Minefinders), Chihuahua, México - 2008
- 📄 NLC report re Chi Fung Factory - Feb 2010
- 📄 Alegaciones de espionaje e intimidación por parte de empresa Forza, quien presta seguridad a Yanacocha
- 📄 Subsidizing Sweatshops report & company responses
- 📄 Allegations of spying by security guards for Yanacocha mine, Peru
- 📄 Concerns re working conditions at Monclova Internacional, Mexico
- 📄 Mandé Norte/Murindó project, Colombia - 2009
- 📄 Allegations against Ford for abuses during the military dictatorship (1976-1983)
- 📄 US legal doctrines
- 📄 So. American flower farms
- 📄 Allegations of anti-union activities by Glencore, Unión Fenosa in Colombia, Aug 2007
- 📄 Global Horizons
- 📄 Pereyra case, Ingenio Tabacal, Sep 2006
- 📄 Alegaciones de anti-sindicalismo por parte de Glencore y Unión Fenosa en Colombia, agosto 2007
- 📄 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)
- 📄 NGO Reactions to defeat of C-300 (Canada) - Oct 2010
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Consolidated proceedings
- 📄 Taller Internacional CME
- 📄 Human Rights Assessment of Goldcorp's Marlin Mine in Guatemala
- 📄 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
- 📄 Update on oil spill in Gulf of Mexico
- 📄 US extractive industries transparency law - NGO responses
- 📄 Kiobel: US Supreme Court Review of Alien Tort Claims Act - Background Materials
- 📄 Peaceful protesters against Excellon's La Platosa mine threatened with force (Aug-Sep 2012)
- 📄 Blackfire Exploration response re allegations of human rights abuses in connection with its mine in Chiapas, Mexico
- 📄 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
- 📄 Ocean Sky El Salvador - report on working conditions & company responses, Jan 2011
- 📄 Tufts University report on Goldcorp's Marlin mine in Guatemala
- 📄 Zijin Mining's Rio Blanco project -- reports on conflict & company responses, Apr 2011
- 📄 Extractives and Ethnic Rights in Colombia, 2012
- 📄 Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut - arms firms and investment in the arms industry
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Health of cleanup workers
- 📄 Exchanges between Excellon Resources and ProDESC, Mexico, Sep-Oct 2013
- 📄 Human Rights First letter and Vigeo statement re tech companies and US Govt's PRISM program - and company responses / non-responses
- 📄 US Senate Internet freedom hearing - 2 Mar 2010
- 📄 DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
- 📄 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
- 📄 Gilead, AIDS Healthcare Foundation & access to medicines - 2011
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon exploision & oil spill Lawsuits - Health of residents
- 📄 Informe de Oxfam: “Divide y comprarás: Una nueva forma de concentrar tierras baldías en Colombia"
- 📄 Guatemala: San Rafael mine violence - Sep 2012
- 📄 Alleged death threats against protesters of wind farm in Oaxaca, Mexico, 2012
- 📄 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
- 📄 Paraguay: Survival Intl. says Carlos Casado (part of Grupo San José) is destroying indigenous group's lands & calls on investors to take action
- 📄 US Dodd-Frank law - SEC vote on extractive industry revenue transparency, Aug 2012
- 📄 Statements by human rights groups on forced labour in Florida, USA - Dec 2008
- 📄 Mossville report - July 2007
- 📄 Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal, Colombia, July 2008
- 📄 Terremoto en Haití - contribuciones de empresas a la ayuda humanitaria (enero, 2010)
- 📄 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)
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