| Norsk Hydro: Global Compact Violator by CorpWatch October 18th, 2001 Today CorpWatch is releasing the sixth in a series of articles written by members of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN documenting violations of UN Global Compact Principles by the very companies that have signed onto the controversial UN Compact. |
| Unilever Violates Global Compact by CorpWatch October 7th, 2001 Today CorpWatch is releasing the fifth in a series of articles written by members of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN documenting violations of UN Global Compact Principles by the very companies that have signed onto the controversial UN Compact. |
| International Chamber of Commerce: Wrong Partner for United Nations Global by CorpWatch July 25th, 2001 Today CorpWatch is releasing the fourth in a series of articles written by members of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN documenting violations of UN Global Compact Principles by the very companies that have signed onto the controversial UN Compact. |
| Rio Tinto: Global Compact Violator by CorpWatch July 18th, 2001 Today CorpWatch is publishing two articles, as the third installment of our series of articles written by members of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN documenting violations of UN Global Compact Principles by the very companies that have signed onto the controversial UN Compact. |
| Nike: Global Compact Violator by CorpWatch June 29th, 2001 Today CorpWatch is releases the second in a series of articles written by members of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN documenting violations of UN Global Compact Principles by the companies that have signed onto the controversial UN Compact. |
| CorpWatch Releases First in a Series of Exposés on Global Compact Companies by CorpWatch June 15th, 2001 Today CorpWatch is releasing the first in a series of articles written by members of the Alliance for a Corporate-Free UN documenting violations of UN Global Compact Principles by the very companies that have signed onto the controversial UN Compact. |
| International Coalition Delivers Scathing Earth Day Letter to President Bush on Climate Change and Environmental Justice by CorpWatch April 20th, 2001 Today leaders of more than a dozen environmental justice organizations from the United States and around the world delivered an Earth Day letter to President George W. Bush offering a scathing response to the U.S. abandonment of the Kyoto Protocol. |
| ''Climate Justice'' Advocates Warn of Impact of Global Warming on Planet's Poor by CorpWatch April 19th, 2001 SAN FRANCISCO -- Two environmentalists from opposite ends of the globe, linked by their common experiences with the ecological degradation and human rights abuses associated with oil production, are joining together to tour American towns and cities as part of a Climate Justice Tour. |
| NGOs to Monitor Business Group's Plans for Earth Summit II by CorpWatch April 18th, 2001 NEW YORK -- CorpWatch warned today that the newly formed Business Action for Sustainable Development (BASD), an industry grouping organized to influence the Earth Summit in 2002 will be scrutinized and monitored by NGOs concerned with excessive corporate influence at the UN. |
| Groups in Porto Alegre Want Global Compact Put on Ice by CorpWatch January 28th, 2001 PORTO ALEGRE -- With UN Secretary General Kofi Annan preparing to renew his call for a 'Global Compact' between the UN and big business at the World Economic Forum in Davos, a global alliance of human rights and environmental organizations is calling for a suspension of this messy entaglement between the UN and big business. |
| Shell's Climate Greenwash by CorpWatch November 20th, 2000 THE HAGUE -- It is virtually an unspoken irony here that the climate change negotiations are taking place in Royal Dutch Shell's home town. Shell, one of the world's largest oil corporations, is responsible for a great deal of global warming gasses. |
| At COP6 Negotiations, Shell's Neighbors Confront Them in Front of Their Peers -- Exposing Their ''Greenwash'' by CorpWatch November 20th, 2000 THE HAGUE -- Today, at the COP6 climate change negotiations, Shell's neighbors confronted them in their own backyard -- exposing their public relations ''greenwash'' as lies. |
| Alternative Summit Opens with Call for Climate Justice by CorpWatch November 19th, 2000 THE HAGUE -- In sharp contrast to the formal climate negotiations, representatives of communities affected by the fossil fuel industry, countries threatened by global warming's rising tides and grassroots groups working for international environmental justice opened the First Climate Justice Summit today. |
| Globalization Debate Comes to NY, Opponents Hold Teach-In by CorpWatch August 16th, 2000 NEW YORK -- Motivated by a growing concern that the United Nations is in danger of becoming an engine for corporate globalization, leading opponents of globalization will hold a Teach-In in New York coinciding with the United Nation's Millennium Summit. |
| Coalition Says Global Compact Threatens UN Mission and Integrity by CorpWatch July 25th, 2000 An international coalition of human rights and environmental groups denounced a new UN-corporate collaboration as ''threatening the mission and integrity of the United Nations.'' |
| Activists Help End Flawed UN/Corporate Partnership by CorpWatch June 14th, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO and NEW YORK -- CorpWatch has learned that after a year long campaign by environmentalists, human rights groups, labor unions and other non-governmental organizations a leading UN agency abandoned its perilous partnership with a group of transnational corporations whose tarnished human rights, environmental and development records threatened to rub off on the world body. |
| Canada Detains and Deports Oil Congress Activists by CorpWatch June 9th, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- Bay Area activists set to speak at a teach-in on the human rights and environmental impacts of the oil industry have returned to the United States after having been arrested, detained, and denied entry by Canadian immigration officials at Calgary International Airport. |
| CorpWatch Names Winners of Earth Day 2000 Greenwash Sweepstakes by CorpWatch April 20th, 2000 SAN FRANCISCO -- Ford Motor Company ran over the competition and won the Grand Prize of the Corporate Watch Earth Day 2000 Greenwash Sweepstakes Awards. |
| Groups Expose More United Nations Affiliations with Corporate Predators by CorpWatch September 23rd, 1999 SAN FRANCISCO -- Non-governmental organizations have sent a letter to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata and UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy calling for their resignation from the Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF). |
| Key United Nations Agency Solicits Funds From Corporations by CorpWatch March 12th, 1999 NEW YORK -- In a sharp detour from its mission of serving the world's poor, a key UN agency, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has solicited funds from global corporations with tarnished records on human rights, labor and the environment. |