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.
The Polish project “Respect Index” has published a table that contains policies of governments and stock exchanges around the world which regulate issues related to… Read More »Policy of governments and stock exchanges on non-financial disclosure
According to the “Friends of the Earth Europe” report, European banks, investment funds and insurance companies are speculating with food prices and are sponsoring the… Read More »“Friends of the Earth Europe” report about food prices speculation
The Dutch pension fund APB put Walmart and the Chinese oil giant PetroChina on its investments blacklist. APB is one of the largest pension funds… Read More »Dutch pension fund puts Walmart and PetroChina on investment blacklist
As several resource rich countries begin to nationalize their commodities operations, Glencore´s CEO announced a battle on these resources. After Argentina voted for the nationalization… Read More »Glencore announces battle on resources
Somo and ICN (both from the Netherlands) published a follow-up report on working conditions in the textile and garment industry in India in April 2012… Read More »Young Dalit women exploited in Indian garment industry
In another court ruling, Brazil´s Superior Court of Justice ruled in favor of the federal tax authority in its appeal against an injunction granted in… Read More »Vale looses tax dispute in Brazil
Branislav Kapetanovic worked for UXO (unexploded ordnance) clearance in Serbia until he was seriously injured by a BLU-97 cluster bomblet. Today he is a spokesman… Read More »Cluster munitions victims are disappointed of the Deutsche Bank
A former employee of Goldman Sachs names in public the bank’s methods and describes how customers are recklessly ripped off. More information on NYT.
After a suspicion of corruption, India prohibited a subcontractor of the German arms company FTD Rheinmetall to make deals with the Indian state company. For… Read More »Rheinmetall in India blocked for years
A current report launched by the ‘International Campaign to ban Nuclear Weapons’ and Profundo keeps records of investments in the production and modernization of nuclear… Read More »German financial service providers support the production and modernisation of nuclear weapons
