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USA: Corporate Equality Index scores record number of companies full marks for having inclusive policies for LGBT workers
Report highlights new prospects for holding corporations accountable for human rights impacts of climate change
Author: Keely Boom, Julie-Anne Richards & Stephen Leonard, Climate Justice Programme (Australia)
"Climate Justice: The international momentum towards climate litigation", Jun 2016...
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USA: Tobacco companies’ request to rewrite court mandated public statements re health impacts of tobacco fails
Author: Lorraine Bailey, Courthouse News Service (USA)
“Judge Slams Big Tobacco's Do-Over Request”, 9 Feb 2016...
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Author: Valentina IERI-IPS/Naciones Unidas
“El trabajo infantil no cesa en las plantaciones de tabaco de EEUU” – 9 de abril de 2015...
- Related companies: Altria Philip Morris USA (part of Altria) R.J. Reynolds
USA: Philip Morris's new tobacco purchasing model could reduce child labour, says Human Rights Watch
Report slams child labor in tobacco fields [USA]
Author: Mariano Castillo, CNN (USA)
...[Children] suffer the effects of nicotine exposure as they labor in U.S. tobacco fields. There is not an exact figure for how many children work in America's tobacco fields, but Human Rights Watch interviewed nearly 150 [children]...Nearly 75%.....
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[PDF] Appendix
Author: Human Rights Watch
[Includes correspondence with Altria, British American Tobacco, China National Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco, Japan Tobacco, Lorillard Tobacco (part of Carolina Group), Philip Morris International, Reynolds American & Universal Corporation]
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Farm Labor Activists Get Audience with Reynolds American Shareholders [USA]
Author: Kathryn Mobley, WFDD Radio (USA)
Farm labor activists want Reynolds American to fight on behalf of North Carolina’s tobacco workers...[About] 300 members of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) protested outside Reynolds American [offices]...Inside, the annual shareholder's...
USA: Farm worker activists say Reynolds American should "stop relying on human trafficking" in its supply chain - company responds
Book Review: Whole Foods Co-CEO John Mackey's Conscious Capitalism
Author: Christine Bader (Visiting Scholar, Columbia University), Huffington Post blog
Conscious Capitalism speaks some truths that are too often left unsaid. But the book falls prey to the same fatal flaw of other business books and CEO treatises: namely, promotion of an oversimplified framework that ignores the complexities of the real...