Full Coverage: Corporations

30.09.2005 Synthetic ingredients in "organic" food? It doesn't seem very logical, but if Kraft and other members of the corporate food industry get their way, the word "organic" is going to take on unfortunate new meaning, says the Pesticide Action Network.

29.09.2005 Representatives and specialists of “Ekolevizja”, a group of environmental NGOs visited Elbasan on September 22, 2005. They met with the Mayor of Elbasan, Ardian Turku, the Rector Jani Dode and the Dean Ziso Themollari from the “Alexander Xhuvani” University. The main purpose of the meeting was to create new collaboration paths with the local government and to provide for the future sustainability of the civil society.

29.09.2005 The new owner of “Dalmacijacement” from Split, the “CEMEX” international corporation, decided to lay off one hundred workers. The president of the United Trade Unions of Croatia, Ozren Matijasevic, said that the unions tried to fight for preservation of all jobs, but the ownership rejected their efforts.

29.09.2005 European Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has been urged to stop using "hyperbole and half-truths" to persuade developing countries that opening their markets to European big business will help the poor and to admit the extent of opposition to his free-trade proposals for Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

28.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 27 (OneWorld) - Multibillion-dollar White House plans to aid recovery from Hurricane Katrina have spawned complaints by a broad array of civil rights, economic justice, and environmental groups even as congressional investigators look into possible corruption.

24.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 24 (OneWorld) - U.S. companies remain less accountable than European and Asian ones despite recent years' damaging revelations of management chicanery involving finances, labor relations, environmental performance, and consumer protection, a global survey said Friday.

21.09.2005 ABN AMRO Bank and PlaNet Finance India have announced the launch of the Microfinance Process Excellence Awards (MPEA) 2006 and invite microfinance institutions in India to send nominations for the awards. The last date for nominations is September 30, 2005.

20.09.2005 Competition authorities are urged to take action to protect consumers and farmers by stopping Tesco's uncontrolled expansion, as quarterly results showed that the company makes more profit in under five minutes than the average UK farm makes in a year.

20.09.2005 Women are being exposed to misleading messages about formula milk, through clever advertising which exploits a loophole in UK law, according to new research.

19.09.2005 Some big corporations are putting their principles up for sale in exchange for a share of the China market, reports China-based journalist and author Nury Vittachi in his second East Asia column for OneWorld UK.

15.09.2005 British Airways has announced a new environmental programme for its customers to offset carbon emissions from their flights, with contributions going to a green trust.

13.09.2005 Wealthy individuals and transnational corporations profit from tax havens and low-tax regimes while ordinary people and small businesses bear the cost for vital services like transport, healthcare, water and electricity.

13.09.2005 "For decades, poor countries like Kenya and Bolivia have been hemorrhaging money to which they are properly entitled. If these leaks could be plugged it would mean that poor countries would not have to be so reliant on hand outs that so often come with damaging strings attached," says a bold new report released in London Monday.

13.09.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Sep 12 (OneWorld) - The lamb appeared to echo the lion Monday, when global charity Christian Aid and advocacy group Tax Justice Network added their voices to that of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in accusing corporate and wealthy tax dodgers of stealing from the poor.

09.09.2005 The Dockyards at Durres, previously named “Gdansk” and lately “Kurum” is moving towards bankruptcy, slowly but surely. Since 1998, the only activities going on in the dockyards were the “reforms” that mainly included the sacking of over 600 workers. At the moment, 215 workers work at “Kurum” Dockyard, with majority of them waiting to be laid-off while receiving only 50% of their wages.

09.09.2005 The police in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu prevented anti-PVC demonstrators from starting their march citing orders from the Madras High court. It was found out later that the court had not passed any such orders and that some PVC companies had given wrong information to the police to stop the march. The march had been organised by farmers and local NGOs.

08.09.2005 The CSR in Asia Conference is being organised in Delhi on 9-10 December in which businesses, governments and the civil society will participate. The conference will look at the social responsibility initiatives of corporates in Asia and how far have these progressed.

08.09.2005 The CSR in Asia Conference is being organised in Delhi on 9-10 December in which businesses, governments and the civil society will participate. The conference will look at the social responsibility initiatives of corporates in Asia and how far have these progressed.

07.09.2005 Join security expert Erik Assadourian Thursday for a discussion that explores the role of corporate leaders in improving their companies’ social and environmental records.

06.09.2005 Orissa, an east Indian state which has one of India's richest natural resources, now faces plunder for its mineral wealth as companies converge on it to exploit bauxite, iron one and chromite. The state faces an ecological plunder as companies race all the way to the bank.