Publication: CorpWatch

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

H&M Responds Slowly to Bangladesh Factory Collapse Killing 1,100

Protest advertisement designed by AvaazH&M (Hennes & Mauritz), a major Swedish fast fashion retailer, led 30 international companies this week to commit to . Watchdog organizations say the companies acted only because of external pressure by activists ... [Published CorpWatch - May 20 2013]

Entities: Bangladesh, H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Workers, Minimum Wage, AVAAZ.org

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd

Ranbaxy Pays $500 Million Fine for Selling Bad Batches of Generic Medicines

Pills. Photo: e-magineart.com. Used under Creative Commons licenseRanbaxy, a subsidiary of Japanese pharmaceutical company Daiichi Sankyo, has . The settlement comes 16 months after the . The 75 year old company was founded in Amritsar, India, as a distributor ... [Published CorpWatch - May 15 2013]

Entities: Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd, Drugs, FDA Food & Drug Administration, Whistle-Blower, India

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Ukraine Egg King Global Plans Fail North Carolina Farmers

Ad for U.S. chicken exports on Chinese taxi. Photo: sinosplice. Used under Creative Commons licenseFarmers in North Carolina are regretting the day that they put their trust in the Egg King - Oleg Bakhmatyuk a billionaire agricultural investor from the ... [Published CorpWatch - May 10 2013]

Entities: Ukraine, Via Campesina, Avangard Co, Corn, Soviet Union

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 1 reports

US Securities and Exchange Commission

Neither Admit Nor Deny: Big Business Allowed To Pay Millions to Avoid Jail

Occupy Wall Street protest. Photo: Michael Fleshman. Used under Creative Commons license.Record to the U.S. government to settle charges of corruption and fraud. But are they getting away with a slap on the wrist to avoid prosecution for major crimes?Just ... [Published CorpWatch - May 06 2013]

Entities: US Securities and Exchange Commission, Whistle-Blower, China Voice Holding Corp, Allegation

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Benetton Group SpA

Benetton, Others Tied to Bangladesh Factory Disaster: 400 Killed

Collage of designer labels dug out of Rana Plaza (left) after the collapse. Photos: Institute for Global Labour and Human RightsOver last week. The tragedy at Rana Plaza in the town of Savar is the latest in a series of industrial disasters to call attention ... [Published CorpWatch - May 02 2013]

Entities: Benetton Group SpA, Bangladesh, European Union, Cato Corp.

First reported Apr 24 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

US Environmental Protection Agency

Arch Coal Wants Permission to Blow Up West Virginia Mountain

Activists Dump Coal Waste at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington DC. Photo: Rainforest Action Network. Used under Creative Commons license.A subsidiary of Arch Coal of St. Louis, Missouri, wants permission to dump nearly three ... [Published CorpWatch - Apr 24 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Arch Coal Inc, Coal

First reported Apr 20 2013 - Updated Apr 20 2013 - 1 reports

HudBay Minerals Inc

Guatemalan Lawsuit Against Canadian Mining Giant May Set Precedent

Angelica Choc stands next to a sign that says Adolfo Ich murdered by CGN. Mining is responsible. Photo: Daniel SosaA group of indigenous Mayan Q'eqchi' have filed three civil lawsuits in Canada against HudBay Minerals Inc. of Toronto for alleged human ... [Published CorpWatch - Apr 20 2013]

Entities: HudBay Minerals Inc, Lawsuit, CANADIAN MINING CO INC, Nickel

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Protests Against Posco Steel Plant Mount In India

Odisha villagers conduct sit-in to protest POSCO. Photo: PPSSFor over a month, villagers in the eastern Indian state of Odisha have been conducting a sit-in to demand the withdrawal of armed police officers at the site of a proposed $12 billion steel ... [Published CorpWatch - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: POSCO Ltd, protest, India

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...H&M was invited to attend but did not. "The tribunal reveals a chasm between the CSR corporate social responsibility] speak of international garment companies and the real situation faced by Asian garment workers" said Anannya Bhattacharjee, coordinator of the International Asia Floor Wage Alliance

H&M Responds Slowly to Bangladesh Factory Collapse Killing 1,100 [Published CorpWatch - May 20 2013]

...HMI/Skye then merged to form a single company, HudBay Minerals. Klippenstein, on a website dedicated to the lawsuits, explains that "."In October 2011, three lawsuits were brought by 13 plaintiffs from the Ocho Lote community in the municipality of El Pastor against HudBay Minerals. Eleven of them are women who allege that in 2007, during a series of violent evictions to make way for Skye Resources Fenix mine, they were gang raped by the military police officers, and mining security employees.". I thought only one of them would rape me but it was all nine men" Rosa Elbria told human rights organization, Rights Action, in a video testimony as she sat on the remains of her stove in the ruins of her former ho...

Guatemalan Lawsuit Against Canadian Mining Giant May Set Precedent [Published CorpWatch - Apr 20 2013]

High among the grievances of the villagers is the fact that the local police filed on charges ranging from arson to rape. "Captive Democracy, a report on these charges by D Raja and lawyer-activist Prashant Bhushan, notes that most of the complaints do not name specific individuals allowing the police to implicate any person in any case. In some cases entire villages comprising of thousands of people have been implicated. As a result many villagers are now afraid of venturing out of the village for fear of being arrested."

Protests Against Posco Steel Plant Mount In India [Published CorpWatch - Apr 14 2013]