STWR - Share The World's Resources

Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, reports Dan McDougall.

Citizen movements are proving that we can take on corporate power, and together build a future that works for all life, write Michael Marx and Marjorie Kelly.

British mining company Anglo American is profiting from a pattern of global abuse and brutality against poor people, including the murder of opponents who say the firm’s mining operations threaten their livelihoods. Anglo American is the world’s second largest mining company and one of the 10 largest British companies, with net profits of over $6 billion in 2006, says a report by War on Want.

The UN flagship initiative on corporate responsibility - the Global Compact - is failing to stop corporate human rights violations, says ActionAid.

The owners and directors of corporations must be made accountable in law for their actions. Owner-shareholders and top executives exercise immense power, both globally and locally, but are not responsible in law for their actions. This immunity is provided by the legal principle of limited liability. Article by Stephanie Blankenburg and Dan Plesch.

She was expected to work 360 days a year from 7.30am to 9.30pm with only a half-hour break