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Downloadable Reports

General Reports

CORE Corporate Abuse in 2007

This in depth discussion paper written by Jennifer Zerk for The Corporate Responsibility Coalition reviews a range of legal instruments to tackle corporate abuse.

Corporate Watch What’s Wrong with Corporate Social Responsibility?.

Can big business be part of a sustainable future? or is the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) a contradiction in terms?

This new report explores how CSR has evolved, what corporations get out of it, and what a truly social responsible corporation would look like.

Earth Rights International The International Law Standard for Corporate Aiding and Abetting Liability

Paper preprared by ERI in collaboration with the University of Virginia International Human Rights Law Clinic, for submission to the United Nations Special Representative on Human Rights and Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises.

European Coalition for Corporate Justice Fair Law and With Power Comes Responsibility

ECCJ’s two reports evaluate the current obstacles to corporate justice and consider what changes to EU law could help prevent human rights abuses and environmental degradation, within the sphere of responsibilty of European Multinational Enterprises.

The first report presents the legal analysis and arguments for the proposals, and the second report assesses the potential of the proposals in relation to concrete real case studies of corporate misconduct.

International Commission of Jurists Final Report of the Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes

The Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes was set up in 2006 to explore when companies and their officials could be held legally responsible under criminal and/or civil law when they are involved with other actors in gross human rights abuses.

The report, comprising three volumes, addresses corporate complicity from the angles of criminal law, the law of civil responsibility and public policy.

Issue Specific Reports

Corporate Europe Observatory Reclaiming Public Water! Participatory Alternatives to Privatisation

This report features cities where diverse models of public participation and democratic control have succeeded in making water utility companies more responsive to the needs of the population, in particular the poorest. The report seeks to examine whether these successes can be replicated in other cities and countries.

Corporate Watch Nanotechnology: What it is and how corporations are using it

This 4-page briefing is from the Corporate Technologies project, which examines how corporations drive forward new technologies to serve the ends of increased corporate profit and power, often at the expense of democracy, quality and the environment.

Earth Rights International China in Burma: The Increasing Investment of Chinese Multinational Corporations in Burma’s Hydropower, Oil & Gas, and Mining Sectors

This background paper from the Burma Project finds more than 26 Chinese multinational companies (MNCs) involved in more than 62 projects in Burma over the past decade, and includes a preliminary list of Chinese MNCs operating in Burma. While the actions of Chinese MNCs outside China have received much attention in recent years, their activities in Burma have too often been overlooked. In fact, the environmental degradation and abuses that often come from large-scale development projects in Burma is reason to pay attention.

War Profiteers and CorpWatch Outsourcing Intelligence in Iraq: A CorpWatch Report on L-3/Titan

Report by Pratap Chatterjee for CorpWatch on Manhattan-based company, L-3, the principal intermediary When U.S. troops or embassy officials want to investigate Iraqis. The company has just lost its biggest contract for failing to recruit qualified translators, and is also being investigated for human rights abuses.

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Films

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Books

• Supercapitalism: The Battle for Democracy in an Age of Big Business Robert B. Reich (2008)

• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Naomi Klein (2007)

• The Future of Human Rights Upendra Baxi (2006)

• Political Power and Corporate Control: The New Global Politics of Corporate Governance Peter A. Gourevitch & James Shinn (2005)

• The People’s Business - Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy Lee Drutman, Charlie Cray, Ralph Nader (2004)

• Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation (Human Rights) Sarah Joseph (2004)

• The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power Joel Bakan (2003)

• Insurrection: The Citizen Challenge to Corporate Power Kevin Danaher, Jason Dove Mark, Jason Mark (2003)

• Making a Killing: How and Why Corporations Use Armed Force to Do Business Madelaine Drohan (2003)

• Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit Vandana Shiva (2002)

• No Logo Naomi Klein (2001)

• Stealing Innocence: Youth, Corporate Power and the Politics of Culture Henry Giroux (2000)

• Hungry for Trade: How the Poor Pay for Free Trade (Global Issues) John Madeley (2000)

• Human rights standards and the responsibility of transnational corporations
  Michael K. Addo (1999)

• The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations Human Rights Watch (1999)

• The Post-Corporate World: Life After Capitalism David C. Korten (1999)

• When Corporations Rule the World David C. Korten (1995)

• Corporate Control, Corporate Power: A Twentieth Century Fund Study Edward S. Herman (1981)

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