Here you find news and information about companies excessively and continuously breaching international norms and standards regarding human and labour rights, environmental protection, controversial weapons and corruption.
In early 2020, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest and arguably most renowned asset management company, wrote in a letter to CEOs that… Read More »The European Commission’s ESG commitments for banks and BlackRock: It’s about more than a conflict of interest
Cargill is one of the world’s largest agricultural commodity trader and food processor and United States’ largest privately-owned company, with revenues exceeding $114 billion in… Read More »Cargill: Sustainability leader or worst company in the world?
Over two years after the disaster, there is still no complete assessment of the socio-environmental and socio-economic damages suffered by the affected communities. As reported… Read More »Samarco Minercao: summary and progress on court cases and fines
Glencore, the world’s largest commodity corporation, is suspected of corruption in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is expected to be sued on that… Read More »“Relationships” in Congo – Corruption allegations against Glencore
The Tuticorin copper smelter located in a South Indian city of 320,000 and owned by Vedanta Resources, has faced criticism for more than two decades… Read More »Deadly protests lead to the closure of Vedanta’s copper smelter in southern India
The latest Greenpeace report published January 2018 exposes Samsung Electronics’ overreliance on fossil fuels. Reports show that Samsung used more than 16,000GW/h of energy in… Read More »Samsung Electronics – Climate Change
Eni is facing a number of charges in the year 2018. The largest and most well-known case is that of Eni’s corruption allegations in relation… Read More »Eni’s many court cases and allegations of 2018.
Norilsk Nickel, as reported in our previous Dirty Profits 5 report , has had serious concerns in relation to environmental pollution and health problems for the… Read More »Syndicate of banks, including European banks, signs agreement with Norilsk Nickel for 2,5 Billion over five years.
Investigations by the FBI into the alleged Russian manipulations of the 2016 US presidential elections are now including the Deutsche Bank. There is a suspicion… Read More »Trumps Business with Deutsche Bank being investigated by FBI
To date, 181 countries have signed and ratified the World Health Organization (WHO) Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. With the aim of limiting the consumption… Read More »New Study : Tobacco Free Investments – Why banks should end their deadly relationship with Tobacco Companies.
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