Full Coverage: Corporations

04.11.2009 Britain's leading cheap fashion retailer, Primark, today faced accusations of cashing in on the recession by exploiting overseas workers producing its clothes.

03.11.2009 Surprisingly, Ralph Nader says yes.

28.10.2009 Primark opens its new London store next month amid claims that Britain's leading cheap fashion retailer is expanding by exploiting overseas garment workers.

27.10.2009 The world's biggest mining company, Billiton, is accused of human rights abuses and environmental destruction in a report launched today.
+ Where is the Church of England’s heart invested?

27.10.2009 A handful of companies are showing progress in their commitments to buy and use sustainable palm oil, yet the majority - contrary to their commitments - are failing to buy the product in spite of its availability, according to a Palm Oil Buyers’ scorecard.

26.10.2009 Lasting respite seems to have returned to Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta with the declaration of an "indefinite ceasefire" by the main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.

24.10.2009 Hundreds of activist organisations had their internet service turned off after the US Chamber of Commerce strong-armed an upstream provider to pull the plug on The Yes Men.

23.10.2009 For many Western campaigners, the collapse of apartheid was a highlight – perhaps the highlight - of their political lives. “Separate development” was so disgusting and the enemy so obdurate that success was particularly sweet.

07.09.2009 A useful summary of latest thinking on privatisation of public water supplies. From Poverty to Power

23.08.2009 In 2006 Zambia earned just $133m from copper exports estimated to be worth $3bn. Trying to rectify this robbery is a tough job for the government, especially given the volatility of world prices. Zambian Economist

25.06.2009 Joe Berlinger describes making Crude as “heartbreaking and inspiring”. That will surely also be the verdict of most viewers.

16.05.2009 This would be a perfect article for April Fool's Day. But it's deadly serious and very original. Mara Gordon argues that Coca-Cola's distribution methods in Tanzania offer ideas for getting life-saving medicines to those who need them. Global Health

16.02.2009 Christian Aid is urging supporters to recruit their local MPs in a bid to bring tax justice to developing countries.

16.02.2009 Mobile phone manufacturers must audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict and atrocities in eastern Congo, say activists as the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona.

18.12.2008 Despite driving poor communities off their land and patently failing to deliver carbon emissions reductions, lobbyists for big industries and institutions such as the World Bank were active in Poznan climate negotiations pushing for further deregulation and expansion of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism.

06.05.2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 5 (OneWorld) - The United Nations is facing scathing criticism from the world's indigenous communities for its attempts to promote carbon trading as a tool to address climate change concerns.

03.05.2008 UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (OneWorld) - The global food crisis is likely to persist if speculative investment by the corporate world is not reined in soon, warned a top expert responsible for reporting to the United Nations on human rights violations.

30.04.2008 Transparency International’s new report calls on leading oil and gas companies for greater transparency in payments made to governments of resource-rich countries. Host governments need to enforce and enact regulations for an equitable exploitation of their oil and gas wealth to help fight poverty, the report adds.

09.04.2008 Coca-Cola’s bottling plant in northern India has been facing the ire of local people. They say the soft drink maker has been operating illegally and has caused the severe water crisis in the area.

01.04.2008 NEW YORK, Mar 31 (OneWorld) - Green groups are planning to celebrate April Fools Day Tuesday with a variety of actions designed to embarrass oil industry bosses gathering in Washington.