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…
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…
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…
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…
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).…
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…
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.…
Dans la zone o๠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…
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…
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]Â …
