Human Rights

Anglo American PLC

Phil Mattera — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:48:06 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Anglo American is one of the world’s largest mining companies, with operations in some 45 countries. The company had its origins in the gold and diamond mines of apartheid South Africa, and after the Second World War it expanded and diversified to the point that it controlled large portions of that country’s economy. It later sold off its non-mining businesses, moved its headquarters to London, and spun off its gold mining operations into the company now called AngloGold Ashanti.

Anglo American

Phil Mattera — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:16:33 -0400

Review:

This report was commissioned by groups in Alaska concerned about the Pebble copper/gold mining project in which Anglo American is involved. The report looks at Anglo American's track record elsewhere in the world in terms of environmental impact, worker safety and human rights issues regarding the displacement of subsistence farmers. The main countries covered are South Africa, Ghana, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Mali and the United States (Nevada). The report is extensively documented, with more than 100 endnotes.

Dole Food

Ian Elwood — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:53:11 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Dole Food Company, Inc. is the world's largest producer of fruits and vegetables such as bananas and pineapples, and also produces cut flowers and nuts. Dole has a history of operating plantations in the US and across the globe, often creating poor working conditions and unsafe environmental conditions such as pesticide use, soil erosion and deforestation.

CACI International Inc.

Phil Mattera — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:19:47 -0400

Company Snapshot:

CACI, founded in the early 1960s as California Analysis Center Inc., is almost entirely a Beltway Bandit—some 94 percent of its revenue is derived from contracts with the U.S. government. About two-thirds of that revenue comes from the Pentagon, but CACI also enjoys the patronage of the Departments of Homeland Security, State, Commerce, Justice and Transportation. At the end of its last fiscal year, CACI had a contract backlog worth some $6.4 billion.

Barrick Gold

sakura — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:34:53 -0400

Company Snapshot:

Barrick Gold Corporation is the largest pure gold mining company in the world, with its headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and four regional business units (RBU's) located in Australia, Africa, North America and South America. Barrick is currently undertaking mining and exploration projects in Papua New Guinea, the United States, Canada, Australia, Peru, Chile, Russia, South Africa, Argentina and Tanzania. On January 20, 2006, Barrick acquired a majority share of Placer Dome.

Honeywell International

Aman Sidhu — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:38:51 -0500

Company Snapshot:

The Honeywell name is most often associated with thermostats, but the company known today as Honeywell International is the result of the takeover of Honeywell Inc. by the conglomerate AlliedSignal in 1999. The old Honeywell was a frequent target of antiwar protests during and after the Vietnam War because of its role in making deadly munitions such as fragmentation bombs. Responding to those pressures as well as financial problems within its defense segment, Honeywell announced in 1990 that it was spinning off most of its military operations into a new company called Alliant TechSystems.

Alliance One International

Ian Elwood — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:34:15 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Alliance One International Inc a joint owner of Limbe Leaf Tobacco (with Swiss-registered Continental Tobacco Company), which buys its tobacco leaf from growers around the world, including farms that support child labor. The company made the US Fortune Global 500 in 2007, and is based out of North Carolina but operates globally.

Chevron

crocodyl — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:51:25 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Chevron is the world's fifth largest global energy company and engages in oil exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. The company is currently embroiled in major lawsuits for the contamination of Ecuador (Aguinda v. Chevron) and alleged crimes in Nigeria (Bowoto v. Chevron).

Perenco SA

Phil Mattera — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:01:19 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Perenco (annual revenues about $3 billion) is a privately held independent oil & gas exploration and production company with its main offices in Paris and London. It has activities in Africa, Central and South America, Turkey and the North Sea. In 2007 it signed an exploration deal with the regional government of Kurdistan in Iraq.

Nike

Bodhi Harnish — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:35:49 -0500

Company Snapshot:

Nike is the world's leading supplier of athletic shoes, apparel and sports equipment with revenue in excess of $16 billion USD in 2007. Operating in more than 160 countries around the globe Nike and is subsidiaries can be found in most shoe retailing stores. In addition to manufacturing their products Nike also runs a chain of retail stores known as Niketown.