http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15337 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15337 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15324 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15324 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15286 <div class="text blurb">Norway's Ministry of Finance announced Friday that it would exclude mining giant Barrick Gold and U.S. weapons producer Textron Inc from the country's pension fund for ethical reasons. This is an especially significant judgment for Canada, as Barrick Gold is currently Canada's largest publicly traded company.</div> Mon, 02 Feb 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15286 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15259 <div class="text blurb">Now come the second thoughts on globalization, as never before have world markets been so integrated. The current financial crisis could mark the start of an effort to overhaul the global financial system conceived at the 1944 summit in Bretton Woods, N.H., which set the rules of international commerce for industrial countries.</div> Thu, 09 Oct 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15259 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14800 <div class="text blurb">The European Union's secretive decision-making processes were condemned on Thursday in a legal judgment that should lead to more light being shed on how thousands of regulations affecting businesses are hatched.</div> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14800 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14744 <div class="text blurb">The World Bank encouraged foreign companies to destructively log the world's second largest forest, endangering the lives of thousands of Congolese Pygmies, according to a report on an internal investigation by senior bank staff and outside experts. </div> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14744 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14588 <div class="text blurb">As the Congolese government begins a review of mining contracts, a mining kingpin is deported on unrelated corruption charges, and the World Bank faces accusations of failure to provide oversight of contract deals. </div> Wed, 25 Jul 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14588 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14584 <div class="text blurb">Gordon Brown has signalled he wants to see poor countries develop through trade rather than aid.</div> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14584 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14562 <div class="text blurb">An Oxford economist has a new and potentially powerful idea: setting up an voluntary international charter to guide transparency efforts in resource-rich developing countries, in order to stave of corruption.</div> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14562 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14569 <div class="text blurb">Conservationists in Uganda are fighting a last-ditch battle to stop the destruction of a forest reserve by a sugar corporation friendly with the government.</div> Tue, 10 Jul 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14569