Independent Monitoring: A New Approach Gathers Momentum(Archive)
Using the same approach that companies have used to ensure worldwide quality standards, Social Accountability International (formerly Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency) has created a workers' rights standard: Social Accountability 8000, or SA8000. …
The Handwriting On the Wall (Archive)
I trust that if there were anything truly reassuring to tell shareholders about Unocal’s relationship with the barbaric Taliban regime of Afghanistan, Chairman Roger Beach would have said it at last month’s annual stockholders meeting. Several of us attended to press Unocal to explain how the company can insist that it isn’t “negotiating” with the Taliban when numerous international press reports credit the corporation with underwriting their visits to the United States, welcoming them into their homes, doling out gifts from fax machines to frisbees, and even picking up the tab for the occasional pair of eyeglasses. Outside the meeting, …
Another Burma? (Archive)
Unocal Joins Forces With Brutal Afghan Regime To Further Regional Oil Pipeline …
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