Full Coverage: Imprese

18.11.2009 A group of NGOs has lodged a legal complaint claiming that one of the world's leading timber wholesalers bought timber from Liberian companies that provided support to Charles Taylor's brutal regime.

18.11.2009 “Do we have to point out that the police are not supposed to take their orders from industrial conglomerates?”
+ Activists and journalists deported, detained and intimidated

12.11.2009 As Primark’s new London store opened today, anti-poverty campaigners hung out the retailer’s “dirty washing” in public with a clothes line that cited workers making its clothes for as little as 7p an hour. .

11.11.2009 When Primark’s new London store opens on Thursday, anti-poverty campaigners will hang out the retailer's “dirty washing” in public with a claim that workers make the company's clothes for as little as 7p an hour.

10.11.2009 A catastrophe is unfolding in the Niger Delta. Entire communities are devastated. The land they have lived on for generations is poisoned. Behind this catastrophe is a UK company – Shell. But they’re hiding behind a smokescreen of denials and excuses. It’s time this stopped – it’s time Shell was called to account.

09.11.2009 The only uncontacted tribe in South America outside the Amazon is having its forest rapidly and illegally bulldozed by ranchers who want their land to graze cattle for beef.

03.11.2009 Surprisingly, Ralph Nader says yes.

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.