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.
Since 2001, major chocolate companies including Hershey have committed to eliminating abusive child labor, forced labor and trafficking in their cocoa supply chains. However, years… Read More »Why Target Hershey for Labor Rights Abuses?
The Gulf States feel threatened by their neighbour Iran. Hence, Saudi Arabia and other states arm massively and increasingly ask for German technology. However, these… Read More »Gulf States want to arm with German tanks
For years the Swiss company Glencore has been accused of bad conditions in its mines, evasion of taxes and degrading working conditions, however, without ever… Read More »Merging of the evil feedstock giants
Apple became one of the richest and most successful companies over the last ten years, not least thanks to globalised assembly methods. However, Apple’s employees… Read More »New York Times report: In China, Human Costs are built into an iPad
Munich – Two former top managers of Ferrostaal have received a suspended sentence. They confessed to have bribed clients in Greece in 2000 and three… Read More »Corrupt submarine deals
Trial against dubious tank deal with 135 Patria wheeled tanks The tribunal in Vienna will start its investigations on the 278 Million euro deal of… Read More »Corruption in 278 Million euro tank deal
On November 17, the European Parliament has adopted a resolution which urges the EU Member States to refrain from the softening of the prohibition of… Read More »European Parliament against the softening of the ban on cluster munition
The Frankfurter Rundschau has referred to a Swiss study according to which merely 147 corporations control most of the world economy. The study „The network… Read More »147 corporations control the world
On the second day of the Meeting of States Parties, Switzerland declared to ratify the Oslo-Convention on cluster munitions. It includes a ban on direct… Read More »Switzerland prohibits financing cluster munition
