Human Rights

P ERTH -- Just days after AngloGold Ashanti fended off allegations of paying bribes to militia groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Anvil Mining has come under intense scrutiny over its supply of air and ground transport to the DRC army for an operation that led to the alleged slaughter of more than 100 people last October. It is understood the government requested the use of Anvil's air services and land vehicles to help mobilise Congolese troops to Kilwa, Read More

Julia Guarniz, a street vendor in the Peruvian highland village of Choropampa, watches blankly as a seven-vehicle convoy thunders past. "They scare me," she says, pointing at the "hazardous materials" signs on the sides of the juggernauts. "When I see them, I worry that it might happen again."Similar convoys carry toxic material through the village several times a day on the degraded highway that runs 600km from Yanacocha, the world's most productive gold mine, to the port of Callao in Lima. Read More

With their newly opened pipeline, British Petroleum (BP) is cutting a path of environmental and social irresponsibility from the Caspian to the Mediterranean. Read More

A major hiccup on government's effort to terminate gas flaring by 2008 has occured as oil multinational, Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) said the official deadline will no longer be realistic to the firm. Read More

Many Halliburton contractors leave Iraq with debilitating injuries and deep psychological scars. Then they return home only to find that the insurance they need to rebuild their lives is out of reach. Read More

In the '70s and '80s, the banana companies Dole, Del Monte and Chiquita used a carcinogenic pesticide, Nemagon, to protect their crops in Nicaragua. Today, the men and women who worked on those plantations suffer from incurable illnesses. Their children are deformed. The companies feign innocence. Read More

Police dealing with civil unrest during the G8 summit in Scotland will have controversial weapons that have been blamed for the deaths of 104 civilians in the United States and Canada. Read More

This week, CorpWatch publishes a special alternative annual report on Halliburton. From bribery, fraud, and corruption in Iraq, to the undermining of US government regulations that protect drinking water at home, we take a closer look at this controversial company's track record in 2004. Read More

With help from some unlikely places, Corrections Corporation of America is hoping to build the largest for-profit private prison in the United States. Read More

Every spring, activists and investors attend annual general meetings to protest and meet face-to-face with CEOs and corporate boards. The goal is to place their agendas -- on everything from the environment to labor practices -- front and center. Read More