Historically, Venezuela has nationalized its hydrocarbon industry in 1975-1976, creating Petroleos de Venezuela S.A (PdVSA), the country’s state-run oil and natural gas company. Along with being Venezuela’s largest employer, PdVSA accounts for about one-third of the country’s GDP, 50 percent of the government’s revenue and 80 percent of Venezuela’s exports earnings. The policy changed in [...]

With expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 5/10 in our latest Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo and Microsoft remain rooted to the bottom of the Guide. The Greener Electronics Guide is our way of getting the [...]

L’accès aux médicaments dans les pays en voie de développement est un des grands défis posé actuellement aux entreprises pharmaceutiques. Conscients du problème, Ethos et plusieurs investisseurs institutionnels soutiennent le projet « Index sur l’Accès aux Médicaments ». Cette initiative internationale a pour but de mesurer et de comparer l’approche des différentes entreprises pharmaceutiques en [...]

As the Beijing Olympics grow closer, calls for human rights grow louder. On Friday, activists gathered with signs and megaphones to protest Coca-Cola, one of the sponsors of the Beijing Olympics, for failing to address China’s ties with the genocide in Sudan, Darfur.  The protest was held outside the Coca-Cola headquarters on Fifth Ave. in [...]

Leading global air carriers Air New Zealand, Continental, Virgin Atlantic Airways, and biofuel technology developer UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, have announced they will be the first wave of aviation-related members to join the newly formed Algal Biomass Organization (ABO). Together with Boeing, which co-chairs the ABO, the airlines are advocating for the identification [...]

Mylamma, the founder of the Coca-Cola Virudha Samara Samiti (Anti Coca-Cola Struggle Committee) in Plachimada, which has spearheaded the campaign against Coca-Cola, is no more with the villagers and sure she is deeply missed by each and every one of them. Medha Patkar of the National Alliance of People’s Movements said about her, “Activists like [...]

Many of these businesses that are household names around the world have used shell companies, proxies and other means to keep the world from knowing that their activities are propping up one of the world’s most vile and violent dictators. ZimDaily has learnt that Mugabe’s sleek election campaign is being handled by the advertising firm [...]

Dans la zone où elle est installée, c’est-à-dire, à Mongbwalu, situé dans le district de l’Ituri, AngloGold Ashanti fait un travail de vulgarisation progressive. Comme c’est une zone post-conflit, les actions sociales de AG sont réalisées avec le soutien de l’Ong Pact. Le défi levé par AngloGold, est l’ouverture de deux routes depuis 2006 qui [...]

Earlier this month, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights and Business John Ruggie presented his third report to the Human Rights Council. In a significant development, the report sets forth a framework for states protecting against human rights abuses, companies respecting human rights, and victims accessing remedies. It also [...]

Environmental organizations today condemned the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) and four private banks’ June 16 decision to provide approximately 5.3 billion dollars in financing for the problematic Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the Russian Far East.[1]  JBIC (the Japan government’s official export credit agency), Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (Japan), Mizuho Corporate [...]