| As You Sow - Organization promoting corporate accountability - holding corporations accountable for complying with consumer, workplace and environmental laws.
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| CERES Principles - U.S. coalition of environmental, investor, and advocacy groups working together for a sustainable future. Maintains and promotes a 10-point code of environmental conduct that companies can become signatories of.
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| Anti-Scofflaw Regulation - This proposal would prevent the federal government from entering into contracts with companies that are chronic violators of consumer, environmental, labor, tax, antitrust and employment laws.
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| Better World electronic edition - This is third edition of Better World online. Useful links and references are here.
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| Corporate Accountability Project - Researching Corporations section provides links to numerous resources to investigate publicly traded corporations.
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| Essential Action - Site for alerting and organizing efforts in corporate accountability.
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| The International Corporate Environmental Reporting Site / Milieujaarverslagen - Subjects include environmental performance measuring and accounting, issues such as "the relation between financial institutes and the environment" and "the relation between environmental performance and shareholder value/financial results," international news, web links. Based in the Netherlands.
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| The International Labor Rights Fund (ILRF) - ILRF, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit action and advocacy organization focused on human rights necessary for life and dignity Excellent information but graphics and frames may not load well.
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| Loka Institute - Begun in 1987, enables information and organizing about worldwide concerns with science, technology and society. Genetic engineering by corporations, for example, has been a focus here.
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| Max Havelaar Switzerland - Swiss firm promoting and enabling fair trade actions.
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| Ending the Wall Street Walk: Why Corporate Governance Now? - Although published several years ago, James McRitchie's report presents certain minimum standards with specific corporate examples of "doing what's right."
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| Australian Ethical & Green Shareholders' Groups - Descriptions and contact information for several Australian nonprofits whose aims are to make corporations accountable.
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| Profit vs. Social Responsibility - Cyber College asks students to calculate the costs / benefits of socially responsible business decisions.
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| Shareholder Action Network - Nonprofit group hosted by Coop America which informs and coordinates shareholder activism toward corporations which are behaving unethically.
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| Airline On-Time Statistics - U.S. Bureau of Transportation figures on airline's tardinesses.
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| CSR Europe - European business reference point for social responsibility issues. Includes case studies, publications, current activities and databank search.
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| Corporate Social Responsibility Forum - Pratical tools, resources and case studies on responsible business practices.
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| Better Business Bureau of Mainland British Columbia - Regional example of BBB that focuses on ethical matters of business members for the public.
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| Campus Sweatshop Protests Spread - Country wide student rallies urge stronger conduct codes for factories that make clothing bearing university logos. Meetings and rallies at most major U.S. universities.
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| Boycott Action News - Co-op America's "tell it like it is" information about corporations that need to be made more accountable.
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| Tell Citibank.org - A place for concerned citizens, including Citigroup stockholders and Citibank customers, to fight predatory lending at the Associates and to learn about community investing as a constructive alternative.
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| The Fair Labor Association - Nonprofit network which gets major footwear and clothing manufacturers to agree to disclose specific factory names, where in the world their products are manufactured.
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| Initiative Against Economic Globalization PRAGUE 2000 - Aims to help citizens' democratic rights to publicly demonstrate in order to bring accountability to bear upon large, multinational corporations.
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| Business in the Community - A movement of businesses committed to continually improving their positive impact on society through corporate social responsibility.
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| Ethical Performance - Monthly newsletter for professionals concerned with corporate social responsibility or for investors.
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| FlyingFish - The OECD's Crocodile Tears - An essay on globalization, WTO, IMF, the World Bank and the OECD.
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| A Resolution on a Modern Myth - It is resolved that Wal-Mart conduct a short-term study to disprove the modern myth that Sunday work maximizes profits.
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| Local Competition - Pennsylvania based group which says Verizon continues a monopoly on the East Coast by devious means.
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| One Market, Under God - Thomas Frank, 35, contends that behind the go- go stock market and the feel-good atmosphere, the American economy that bloomed in the 1990's is sick, and that the divide between rich and poor has widened. To read this NY Times interview of him, requires free registration.
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| Watered Stock Pyramid Analysis - Links to articles by Bill Parish about Citicorp, Cisco Systems and Microsoft printing stock with abandon.
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| The MacBride Principles - Principles of conduct for firms doing business in Northern Ireland.
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| Focus on the Corporation - Focus on the Corporation, a close look at corporate power and monopolization as it effects contemporary society. (via San Francisco Bay Guardian online edition)
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| Corporate America: The Land of the Greed - Personal commentary by Evan Stair on the effects of corporate values on small town life.
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| European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Institute for European and comparative corporate governance issues provides calendar of upcoming conferences and membership information.
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| C-SPAN: Corporate Accountability - Highlights recent video and news pertaining to accounting reform, SEC and FTC actions and Congressional oversight, and related issues.
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| CensorShip Kills - Anti-Corporate advertisers and underwriters. Supports competition to them by citizen-based Low Power FM radio stations.
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| Business for Social Responsibility - Organization for businesses interested in ethical conduct and policies that allow commercial success.
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| News for McDonald's Franchisees - News, links and articles concerning the impact of poor or questionable management of McDonald's on its franchisees around the world.
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| Corporate Social Responsibility Forum - Promotes social responsibility in business by increasing awareness of ethical matters and hosting a database for good corporate practices. Offers seminars and conferences.
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| Hands-On Corporate Research Guide - Step-by-step interactive guide to researching corporations on the Internet.
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| CorpWatch - Research guide for social investors, activists, students.
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| Corporate Culpability - C.M.V.Clarkson, Law Professor at University of Leicester has published numerous scholarly papers on corporate accountability. This is one of them.
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| Corporate Governance - Facilitates the movement to enhance wealth creation by transforming corporations into more democratic entities through shareholder activism and empowering boards of directors.
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