The chief executives of the world’s biggest international oil companies will testify on Tuesday that the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico “was preventable’’, publicly distancing themselves for the first time from the UK company, the Financial Times…
Money from any oil collected and sold from BP's leaking oil well will go toward a fund that helps restore and improve wildlife habitat in the four states most damaged by the nation's largest oil spill. Although thousands of barrels…
In the lead up to the 2010 FIFA World Cup', Official FIFA Partner, Sony Corporation, and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a campaign to bolster efforts to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) a set of eight…
Less than a week after announcing a 30 percent pay raise for its workers, electronics giant Foxconn said it will hike wages by another 66 percent beginning in October. The company said it hoped the pay raise would help increase…
Stung by labor shortages and a rash of suicides this year at its massive factories in southern China, Foxconn Technology said Wednesday that it would immediately raise the salaries of many of its Chinese workers by 33 percent. The pay…
En Afrique, l’équipementier racheté en 2007 par le franà§ais PPR (actionnaire à 62,1%), joue à domicile. La marque revendique l’attachement de la marque au continent noir et à ses athlètes. Depuis 2002, il y multiplie les partenariats : sponsor maillots…
Environmental groups have attacked a national press campaign by Shell as ” ill-timed and “at best cynical and at worse downright dishonest”. Shell, the oil company, today (May 28) launched a series of full-page national ads in today’s Times, Guardian,…
Global leaders barred, arrested, and ejected from Annual Meeting for exposing the truth about Chevron’s human rights. Houston, TX - At Chevron’s shareholder meeting today the company faced outrage for its continued lies, deception, silencing of critics, and human rights…
This is the second of a three part articles series on ethical issues related to the jewelery industry. Part 1 examined the global context and problems, ethical as well as ecological, related to the mining of precious stones. This present…
A federal jury on Monday found that the U.S. unit of Swiss drug maker Novartis AG engaged in a "pattern or practice" of discrimination against its female employees. In its fifth day of deliberations, the jury of four men and…
