Corporate Power Links

Business and Human Rights Resource Centre Udated hourly with news and reports about companies’ human rights impacts worldwide — positive and negative.

Business Leaders’ Initiative on Human Rights Aims to find practical ways of applying the aspirations of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within a business context and to inspire other businesses to do likewise. Members include Coca-Cola, Barclays and Gap…

Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations Non-profit Dutch research and advisory bureau which investigates the consequences of Multinational Enterprises’ policies and the internationalisation of business worldwide.

Corporate Ethics International Aim to transform the role of corporations so that they are once again in service to and under the control of civil society.

Corporate Europe Observatory Research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.

Corporate Responsibility Coalition (CORE) UK Works to make changes in UK company law to minimise companies’ negative impacts on people and the environment and to maximise companies’ contribution to sustainable societies.

Corporate Watch UK Independent not-for-profit research and publishing group which undertakes research on the social and environmental impact of large corporations, particularly multinationals. Aims to expose the mechanisms by which corporations function and the detrimental effects they have on society and the environment as an inevitable result of their current legal structure.

CorpWatch US Investigates and exposes corporate violations of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around the world. Works to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations.

Earth Rights International EarthRights International is at the forefront of the movement to hold corporations accountable for fair human rights, labour, and environmental practices. They bring together human rights and environmental activists, affected communities, and concerned individuals to build lasting networks, raise public awareness around earth rights issues, and take on corporate abusers no matter where they do business.

Eldis: Corporate Responsibility Eldis provides more than 24,000 summarised documents from over 4,500 development organisations - all available free to download, including resources on Corporate Responsibility, business and the environment, business and conflict, business and corruption and business and human rights.

European Coalition for Corporate Justice Aims to increase European co-operation amongst NGOs working on Corporate Accountability and to raise public awareness about the role of the European Union in regulating business.

Multinational Resource Centre Provides information, free of charge, to Southern activists, environmental and consumer groups and journalists about multinationals, including who owns local factories, their labour and environmental history, and the laws that regulate specific industries in the North.

Rights & Accountability in Development Research and advocacy NGO that aims to advance corporate accountability, fair investment and good governance to ensure the human rights of people living in poverty are respected by the private sector, international financial institutions and governments.

Transparency International Global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, including in the private sector.

War Profiteers Information on corporations that make a large amount of their profits in the defence industry.

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