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Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., one of the world’s largest insurance companies, pledged not to provide insurance to “transition laggards” (companies that are failing to tackle global warming) for new fossil fuel terminals and power plants, in response to a campaign by activist groups like Greenpeace, InsureOurFuture and ReCommon in Italy.

PepsiCo refused to allow a shareholder resolution requesting the company look into allegations that it is buying sugar from female farm workers in Maharashtra, India, who are coerced into undergoing hysterectomies. The resolution was filed following an exposé by the Fuller Project and the New York Times. 

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement called for a boycott of supermarket chain Carrefour in 2022 over company ties to illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land. Carrefour profits plummeted in the last fiscal year after its Israeli subsidiary publicly supported soldiers involved in Israel’s ongoing genocide against Gaza.

Two new troves of internal documents from Palantir, a data surveillance company based in Colorado, have shone a light on how computer programmers are designing new software to help the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) track and deport thousands of people.