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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
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Technology and Human Rights
Opportunities and risks for human rights created by new and emerging technologies
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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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Corporate Legal Accountability
Concise profiles of lawsuits against companies accused of human rights abuses & commentaries
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.
Binding treaty
Global debate on a proposed UN treaty
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
- 📄 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
- 📄 Digital freedom
- 📄 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
- 📄 Text of business & human rights standards
- 📄 Torture & ill-treatment - an introduction
- 📄 Commentaries on "Supercapitalism" by Robert Reich
- 📄 Climate change websites
- 📄 G4S-UNI agreement
- 📄 Access to medicines - key international standards
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 Indigenous peoples - an introduction
- 📄 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
- 📄 Cultural issues - key international standards
- 📄 Education - key international
- 📄 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
- 📄 International Women's Day 2009 - reports & initiatives
- 📄 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
- 📄 Blacksmith Institute: The 2007 Worst Polluted Places
- 📄 Arbitrary detention - an introduction
- 📄 Export processing zones - key international standards
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2009
- 📄 World AIDS Day: 1 Dec 2007
- 📄 Age discrimination - 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
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights Portal: Latest additions
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Commentaries
- 📄 Our 2013 highlights and 2014 plans - please consider supporting our work
- 📄 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
- 📄 Due diligence
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Natl. Human Rights Institutions
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Legal organizations
- 📄 World Economic Forum - Davos 2014
- 📄 "Ranking Digital Rights" project
- 📄 Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2013
- 📄 Indigenous Rights Risk Report 2013 - Company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Public Eye Awards 2014
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Intergovernmental organizations
- 📄 Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice & Human Rights - 2013
- 📄 Human rights impact assessment of the EU Everything But Arms initiative in Cambodia – includes EU response
- 📄 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights - Events
- 📄 Uses of UN Guiding Principles: Investors
- 📄 Observatory of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights
- 📄 Modern-day Slavery
- 📄 Forest Peoples Programme, Sawit Watch & TUK Indonesia report: "Conflict or consent? The oil palm sector at crossroads"
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 "The politics of corporate social responsibility: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Norms for Corporations"
- 📄 World Water Week 2010
- 📄 Netsweeper’s silence on its reported role in Pakistan’s internet filtering programme
- 📄 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
- 📄 SOMO report examines records of 8 extractive companies on human rights & tax avoidance (2013)
- 📄 Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development
- 📄 Business and human rights-themed videos, films and documentaries
- 📄 Short videos & news items
- 📄 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
- 📄 International Women's Day 2011
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2011
- 📄 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
- 📄 ICJ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity - Invitation for Submissions
- 📄 Global Compact Leaders Summit 2010
- 📄 UN Global Compact - human rights tools & guidance, local network activities
- 📄 US Govt’s Burma Responsible Investment Reporting Requirements - reports, comments, guidelines & company responses
- 📄 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
- 📄 Uranium Film Festival 2012
- 📄 HSBC money laundering allegations
- 📄 Videos in other languages (Arabic, Chinese)
- 📄 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)
- 📄 Critiques of Guiding Principles by Amnesty Intl., Human Rights Watch, FIDH, others - debate with Ruggie
- 📄 World AIDS Day 2011
- 📄 Hershey statements re child labour in cocoa production
- 📄 Summaries of John Ruggie consultations - Oct 2010
- 📄 PMSC Bulletin
- 📄 Public Eye nominations 2011 - Company responses
- 📄 SOMO report on car manufacturers - company responses
- 📄 World Water Week 2013: Actions by companies
- 📄 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report (Sep 2013)
- 📄 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
- 📄 Company responses to Oxfam's campaign: "Behind the Brands - Food Justice and the 'Big 10' Food and Beverage Companies"
- 📄 World Water Day 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 Business’ human rights responsibilities in conflict zones: Standards, tools and perspectives
- 📄 Testimony before Canadian Parliament re Barrick & Porgera JV (Papua New Guinea)
- 📄 Freedom of Association bulletin
- 📄 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”
- 📄 International Commission of Jurists - Access to Justice, Country Reports
- 📄 UN Arms Trade Treaty
- 📄 Selection of articles on bio-piracy
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 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)
- 📄 Berne Declaration report re oil trading & Nigeria - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Mining Indaba 2014
- 📄 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
- 📄 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)
- 📄 Bench Marks report re ArcelorMittal So. Africa and company response - 2013
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Rapport du Centre pour l'Environnement & le Développement (Cameroun)
- 📄 So. Africa: Report that Chinese mining firm demanded workers waive rights
- 📄 International Hydropower Association responses to concerns about partnership with Ethiopia - July 2011
- 📄 Sudan internet shutdown September 2013
- 📄 Marikana Commission of Inquiry into the Lonmin massacre
- 📄 Herakles Farms - Report by Centre for Environment & Development (Cameroon)
- 📄 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
- 📄 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)
- 📄 UNEP report re oil pollution in Niger Delta
- 📄 Procès COMILOG (Gabon)
- 📄 Lonmin mine deaths in South Africa - August 2012
- 📄 "Are mining profits ethically earned?" - asks John Capel about Africa's mining industry [2012]
- 📄 Letter to hotel chains regarding human trafficking at the World Cup & company responses
- 📄 Fidelity, Vanguard statements re genocide
Asia Pacific
- 📄 China labour law reform
- 📄 Rana Plaza building collapse, April 2013
- 📄 Shwe gas & Myanmar-China oil transport projects (Apr-Jun 2013)
- 📄 Clean Clothes Campaign report "Cashing In" and company responses
- 📄 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
- 📄 Attacks near Freeport's Grasberg mine, West Papua, Indonesia - Jul 2009
- 📄 National Labor Committee report & company responses
- 📄 "Mining in the Philippines – Mining or Food?" report & company responses/non-responses
- 📄 Google statement on China, and responses - Jan 2010
- 📄 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
- 📄 SACOM electronics report company responses 2007
- 📄 Shanxi brick factories
- 📄 Birmania y las empresas
- 📄 Company contributions to Sichuan, China, earthquake relief (2008)
- 📄 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
- 📄 Cambodia: Crackdown on garment workers protesting for higher wages - Jan 2014
- 📄 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)
- 📄 "If not now, when?"
- 📄 Japan's nuclear reactor crisis: TEPCO responsibility and impacts - Mar 2011
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 Striking garment factory workers in Cambodia
- 📄 Porgera Joint Venture complaints mechanism for rape victims - MiningWatch concerns
- 📄 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
- 📄 Chinese NGO Report on Apple, Jan 2011
- 📄 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
- 📄 Foxconn suicides - 2010
- 📄 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
- 📄 Cambodia: Resumption of forced evictions following government sub-decree - Sep 2011
- 📄 Killings - West Papua - October 2011
- 📄 Japan earthquake & tsunami - company contributions to humanitarian aid
- 📄 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
- 📄 Call for oil companies to practice revenue transparency in Burma & company responses
- 📄 Pakistan Floods- 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 Resource Centre mission to Bangladesh, June 2011
- 📄 Allegations of pollution in Apple's supply chain in China - Sep 2011
- 📄 Google ends its censorship in China - commentary, Mar 2010
- 📄 Company responses regarding NGO report on pollution by IT firms' suppliers in China
- 📄 Greenpeace report finds stockpiles of fertilizer waste hazardous to health near Chinese villages - companies invited to respond (Apr 2013)
- 📄 "Cambodia Clean Sugar" campaign - company responses & non-responses
- 📄 Pakistan Govt tender for an internet filtering and blocking system
- 📄 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 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
- 📄 Subsidizing Sweatshops report & company responses
- 📄 Global Horizons
- 📄 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
- 📄 Pereyra case, Ingenio Tabacal, Sep 2006
- 📄 Alegaciones de anti-sindicalismo por parte de Glencore y Unión Fenosa en Colombia, agosto 2007
- 📄 Alegaciones de espionaje e intimidación por parte de empresa Forza, quien presta seguridad a Yanacocha
- 📄 Honduras: Investigation into World Bank's Intl. Finance Corporation investment in Corporación Dinant (Dec 2013)
- 📄 Vale accused of illegal spying on employees & infiltrating social & environmental movements
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 Informe de Oxfam: “Divide y comprarás: Una nueva forma de concentrar tierras baldías en Colombia"
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 NGO Reactions to defeat of C-300 (Canada) - Oct 2010
- 📄 US Deepwater Horizon explosion & oil spill lawsuits - Consolidated proceedings
- 📄 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
- 📄 Taller Internacional CME
- 📄 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)
- 📄 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
- 📄 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
- 📄 DanWatch report on social & environmental impacts of Cerrejón coal mine in Colombia
- 📄 US Senate Internet freedom hearing - 2 Mar 2010
- 📄 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
- 📄 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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