Environmental damage caused by the oil industry in the Niger Delta has brought poverty, conflict and despair to local people. Energy corporations have undermined communities' rights to health, employment and an adequate standard of living, says a report by Amnesty International.
Local communities throughout the tropics are suffering as agribusiness seek
to redesign the world map of sugar by introducing GM. This development must be rejected as
the industrialisation of a food crop with significant cultural and economic
meaning, warns a report by GRAIN.
The US-led 'reconstruction' of Iraq and Afghanistan illustrates the growing role of agribusiness on the battlefield, the blossoming of a private 'development' industry and a dangerous merging of the military and corporate humanitarianism, argue GRAIN.
A new report has named numerous major
banks that conduct business with corrupt regimes. By accepting such customers,
these banks are assisting those who are squandering state assets to enrich themselves or
brutalise their own people. Report by Global Witness.
Its advocates promise a green, clean, post-petroleum future, where biotechnology produces economically important compounds. But the forthcoming 'sugar economy' will be a catalyst for a corporate grab on all plant matter and the destruction of biodiversity on a massive scale, says Hope Shand.
U.S. taxpayers shell out 20 billion dollars a
year to pad business chiefs' earnings and to prop up the world's most
lopsided corporate pay scales, say activists seeking to highlight
inequality in this election year. By Abid Aslam.
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.
