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Projects and activities which lead to human rights violations or environmental destruction, which are linked to corruption, or which include the production of weapons that are contrary to international law.


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  • Andritz and the Indonesian Paper and Pulp industry
  • Shell: Oil sands in Canada
  • Adidas: Dynamic Industry Precision Corp. Poor Factory Conditions
  • Adidas: PT Kizone and Student Movements
  • Andritz and the controversial Belo Monte Dam
  • Andritz: Controversial dam project in Laos
  • Andritz supports construction of destructive dam in Turkey
  • Anglo American: Environmental Breaches in Chile
  • African Miners Seek Reparations for Silicosis Claims
  • Anglo American: Threatened Water Sources in Peru
  • Anglo American: Violent Suppression of South African Protesters
  • AngloGold Ashanti: Forced Evictions in Tanzania
  • AngloGold Ashanti: La Colosa Mine Project, Colombia
  • AngloGold Ashanti: Environmental degradation in Mali
  • AngloGold Ashanti: Water Contamination in South Africa
  • Alpha Natural Resources: Anti-union practices
  • Areva: Uranium Mining Operations in Niger
  • Areva: Endangering Mongolia´s Grassland
  • Areva: Nuclear Power Plant in Jaitapur
  • Areva: Nuclear Reactors in Finland
  • Areva: Opaque uranium contracts in DRC
  • Areva: Uranium Mining Operations in Gabon
  • EADS: Arms Deals and Corruption
  • Rheinmetall: Export of the Leopard 2 battle tank
  • EADS: Arms Exports to Areas of Conflict
  • BAE Systems: Corruption Allegations
  • BAE Systems: Sales to Countries With Ongoing Human Rights Violations
  • Barrick Gold: Pierina Mine Project, Peru
  • Barrick Gold: Pueblo Viejo Mine, Dominican Republic
  • Vedanta : Bauxite Mine and Aluminium refinery in Orissa, India
  • Bolloré: Land Grabbing and Human Rights Violations at African Oil Palm Plantations
  • Bolloré: Land Grabbing and Human Rights Violations in Indonesia
  • Bumitama Agri Ltd: GY Plantation
  • Bumitama Agri Ltd: Ladang Sawit Mas (LSM) Plantation
  • Cargill: Beneficiary of New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition
  • Cargill: Landgrabbing for genetically modified soy
  • Cargill: Landgrabbing in Colombia
  • Cargill: Lawsuit on child labour in Cȏte d`Ivoire
  • Cargill: Severe deforestation, labour rights violations at Indonesian palm oil suppliers
  • GlencoreXstrata: Cerrejón Coal Mine, Colombia
  • Adidas: Chemicals and water pollution in Indonesia
  • Chevron: Devastating Fire in California Refinery
  • Chevron: Fracking
  • Chevron: Gas flaring in Nigeria
  • Chevron: Oil Exploitation in Kazakhstan
  • Chevron: Ranked World’s Highest Emitter of CO2 and Methane
  • Chevron´s environmental damages in Ecuador
  • Anglo American: Retaliation Against Union Leaders in Chile
  • Coal India: Anti-competitive behaviour
  • Coal India: Carbon emissions
  • Coal India: Communities face eviction
  • Coal India: Failing occupational safety
  • Coal India: Illegal operations
  • Coal India: New concessions threaten forest and endangered species
  • Coal India: Protest of tribal people; child labour
  • Coca-Cola: Resource Grabbing in India
  • Companies Excluded from the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG)
  • ENI/Agip: Contamination of the Niger river delta
  • Heckler & Koch: Controversial Arms Exports
  • Rheinmetall : Corruption allegations
  • ENI: Deep Sea Gas Exploration in Mozambique
  • Anadarko: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
  • Chevron: neue Fracking-Probebohrungen in Rumänien
  • Elbit System: Use of conflict minerals
  • Elbit Systems: Production of armed drones
  • Elbit Systems: Production of fully autonomous weapons (Killer Robots)
  • Elbit Systems: Surveillance system “Torch” for the separation barrier in Israel/Palestine
  • ENRC: Accusations of Corruption and Tax Evasion in Kazakhstan and Africa
  • ENRC: OECD complaint
  • Environmental damage by H&M suppliers in China
  • ENI: Exploration of tar sands in the DRC
  • Flextronics: Precarious Working Conditions in India
  • Flextronics: Precarious Working Conditions in Malaysia
  • Flextronics: Precarious Working Conditions in Mexico
  • Foxconn sites China
  • G4S: Private Security Company Fosters Human Rights Violations in Israel
  • G4S: Reckless and Negligent Employment of a Mentally Ill Ex-Soldier
  • Gap: Cotton from Uzbekistan
  • Gap’s victims in Bangladesh
  • Gazprom: Altai Gas Pipeline
  • Gazprom: Bribery, corruption and anti-competitive practices
  • Gazprom: CO2 emissions
  • Gazprom: Drilling in the Arctic
  • Gazprom: Public Eye Award 2014, onshore spills
  • Gazprom: Sakhalin II Oil and Gas Project
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Anti-competitive business model
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Bribery, corruption, fraud
  • GlaxoSmithKline: Fatal clinical trials
  • Glencore: Expansion of Bulga coal mine (Australia)
  • Glencore Xstrata: Constant breaches of sulphur dioxide levels in Mount Isa
  • Glencore Xstrata: Dismissal of Miners, South Africa
  • Glencore Xstrata: EIB Loans Frozen
  • Glencore Xstrata: Environmental Pollution, Antamina Copper Mine, Peru
  • Glencore Xstrata: Environmental Pollution, Tintaya Copper Mine, Peru
  • Glencore Xstrata: Aluminum Price Fixing Scandal
  • Glencore Xstrata: OECD Complaint Against Copper and Gold Project, Argentina
  • Glencore plc: Controversions on Falcondo nickel project in the Dominican Republic
  • Glencore Xstrata/Trafigura: Trade with Iranian Firm Allegedly Supplying Nuclear Program
  • Glencore plc: Violent Conflict with Indigenous Groups in the Philippines
  • Goldcorp: Mining in Guatemala
  • Goldcorp: Gold and copper project in Chile
  • Goldcorp: Mining in Guatemala
  • Goldcorp: Mining in Honduras
  • Goldcorp: Mining in Mexico
  • Golden Agri-Resources: Violation of the RSPO principles
  • Golden Agri-Resources: Illegal Use of Fire for Land Clearing
  • Golden Agri-Resources: Land Grabbing in Liberia
  • Goldman Sachs and the foodbubble
  • Rio Tinto: Grasberg Mine, Indonesia
  • Anglo American: Health and Working Conditions at Amplat Mines
  • Anadarko: Hydraulic Fracking
  • Hyundai Motor Group: Precarious working conditions
  • Hyundai Motor Group: High rate of occupational accidents and fatalities
  • Hyundai Motor Group: OECD complaint in Germany for anti-union strategies
  • Hyundai Motor Group: Precarious working conditions at FIFA 2022 construction sites
  • Alpha Natural Resources: Poor work and safety conditions
  • Jabil: Labor Rights Violations in China, Mexico, and Poland
  • Jindal Steel & Power: Human Rights and Environmental Violations in India
  • Jindal Steel & Power: Human Rights and Environmental Violations in Mozambique
  • Glencore: Environmental damage, human rights violations, tax dodging at Katanga Mining
  • Paladin: Kayelekera Uranium Mine
  • Vale: La Morada mining project in Peru
  • Vale: Labour rights violations at Canadian mine sites
  • Lockheed Martin: Production of Autonomous Weapons
  • Lockheed Martin´s weapons used in Gaza
  • Lonmin: Strikes turn violent, 44 miners shot, police forces heavily accused
  • LPP: Labor Rights Violations in Bangladesh
  • Vale: Moatize Coal Project in Mozambique
  • Monsanto: Environmental and Public Health Violations Related to Pesticides and Genetically Modified Crops
  • Monsanto: Land Grabbing and Community Displacement
  • Mountaintop Removal (MTR) Mining – USA
  • BHP Billiton: Mozal Aluminium Smelter
  • Drummond: Union Leader Assasinations
  • Nestlé: Union Conflicts in Colombia
  • Nestlé: Excluded by Triodos
  • Nestlé: Cocoa Price Fixing
  • Nestlé: Ongoing Child Labor Violations at Ivory Coast Cocoa Plantations
  • Nestlé: Privatization of Water Resources
  • Nestlé: Spying on ATTAC
  • Newmont Mining Corp: Human Rights/Environmental Violations, Cajamarca, Peru
  • Alliant Techsystems: Nuclear Weapons
  • Rio Tinto: Oyu Tolgoi Gold/Copper Mine, Mongolia
  • Paladin: “Langer Heinrich” Uranium Mine, Namibia
  • Wilmar International: Palm Oil production in Indonesia
  • Wilmar International: Palm Oil in Uganda
  • Barrick Gold: Pascua-Lama Project
  • Barrick Gold: Porgera Joint Venture, Papua New Guinea
  • Environmental damages and forced resettlement through the Prodeco Group/Colombia
  • Hanwha Corp.: Production of Cluster Munitions by Hanwha Corp.
  • L-3 Communications: Production of Cluster Munitions
  • Lockheed Martin: Production of Alternative Warhead to avoid Convention on Cluster Munitions
  • Rheinmetall: Production of Cluster Munitions
  • Textron Inc.: Production of Cluster Munitions
  • General Dynamics: Production of Cluster Munitions
  • Alliant Techsystems: Production of Cluster Munitions
  • Alliant Techsystems: Production of Depleted Uranium Ammunition
  • General Dynamics: Production of Depleted Uranium Ammunition
  • Lockheed Martin: Production of Nuclear Weapons
  • EADS: Production of Nuclear Weapons
  • General Dynamics: Production of Nuclear Weapons
  • Rheinmetall: Production of white phosphorus weapons
  • Drummond: Union Repression
  • Rheinmetall: Ammunition production in Indonesia
  • Rheinmetall: Development of Killer Robots
  • Rheinmetall: Export to Qatar
  • Rheinmetall: Arms exports to Algeria
  • Rheinmetall: Production of non-lethal weapons
  • Rio Tinto: Air Pollution in Salt Lake City, USA
  • Rio Tinto: Diamond mine project in Bundelkhand, India
  • Rio Tinto: Displacement Compensation Conflicts, Madagascar
  • Rio Tinto: Human Rights Violations Panguna Copper Mine, PNG
  • Rio Tinto: Environmental, Labor, and Human Rights Violations in Australia
  • Rio Tinto: Land Grabbing and Human Rights Violations, Mozambique
  • Rio Tinto: Rössing Uranium Mine, Namibia
  • Anadarko: Gas exploration in Rovuma Basin, Mozambique
  • Royal Dutch Shell: Drilling in the Arctic
  • Royal Dutch Shell: Corruption in Nigeria?
  • Royal Dutch Shell in Nigeria
  • Royal Dutch Shell: Manipulation of oil price?
  • Royal Dutch Shell on Russia´s Sakhalin Island
  • Royal Dutch Shell: High emissions of CO2 and methane
  • Royal Dutch Shell: Settlement for land and water contamination in Brazil
  • Royal Dutch Shell: Tax dodging in India
  • RWE: Continued investments in coal
  • RWE and Vattenfall: Sourcing coal from controversial Colombian coal mines
  • Samsung Group: Child Labour
  • Samsung Group: Disregard of Extended Producer Responsibility concerning e-waste
  • Samsung Group: Involvement in price-fixing scheme
  • Samsung Group: Production of fully autonomous weapons (Killer Robots)
  • Samsung Group: Sourcing tin from controversial mines in Indonesia
  • Samsung Group: Violation of Labour Rights
  • Saudi Aramco: Bribery and Reporting on corruption
  • Saudi Aramco: Oil and gas exploration
  • Saudi Aramco: Third largest carbon emitter over the last century
  • Sesa Sterlite: Coke plant causes environmental pollution in Navelim
  • Sesa Sterlite: Illegal behaviour in Tamil Nadu
  • Glencore: Severe Health and Environmental Damages at Mopani Copper Mines plc
  • Shell, Gazprom: Fracking in Siberia
  • Shell goes arctic
  • SodaStream: Business in Occupied Palestinian Territory
  • Glencore: Tax Evasion and Corruption
  • ThyssenKrupp and Vale: TKCSA steel complex in Brazil
  • Trafigura: Bribery in Angola
  • Trafigura: Corruption in Malta
  • Trafigura: Corruption in Zambia
  • Trafigura: Dumping toxic waste in Ivory Coast
  • Trafigura: Support for Sudanese regime
  • Trafigura: Support of Iranian regime
  • Trafigura: Tax evasion
  • Vale: Belo Monte Dam Complex
  • Vale: Threatening water and land in Argentina
  • Vattenfall: Deficient storage of nuclear waste
  • Vattenfall: Open-cast lignite mining
  • Vattenfall: Sourcing uranium from controversial Namibian mine
  • Vedanta: Aluminium Refinery and Bauxite Mines in Korba, India
  • Vedanta: Konkola Copper Mine, Zambia
  • VF: Cambodian suppliers oppress unions
  • VF: Holding on to suppliers banned by other apparel makers
  • VF: Ignorance of supply chain
  • VF: Labor rights violations in supply chain
  • H&M: Violations of Labor Rights in Uzbekistan, Bangladesh, and Cambodia
  • Samsung Electronics: Violations of labour rights
  • Barrick Gold: Human Rights Violations in Tanzania
  • Wal-Mart: Bribery in Mexico
  • Wal-Mart: Forced labour in food supply chain
  • Wal-Mart: Poor labour conditions in garment supply chain / Bahrain
  • Wal-Mart: Poor labour conditions in garment supply chain / Indonesia
  • Wal-Mart: Poor labour conditions in retail stores
  • Wal-Mart: Rifles for sale in retail and online shops
  • Wilmar International: Cross River State, Nigeria
  • Gap: Working conditions in garment production in Cambodia
  • Foxconn: Working Conditions in Chinese Factories
  • BHP Billiton: Zamzama Gas Plant, Pakistan
  • Zijin Mining: Collapse of tailing dam kills 22, destroys houses
  • Zijin Mining: Toxic spill contaminates river; higher rates of cancer
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