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  Oil, gas & coal companies: 1994-2000  

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2000:

Campaign Launched Against Sanford Bernstein for 'Unethical' Investments in Oil Project on U'wa People's Sacred Land: Groups Call on Company to Divest from Occidental Petroleum (Rainforest Action Network, Amazon Watch, Project Underground, Ruckus Society, 12 Dec. 2000)

{···français} « Business», pétrole et droits humains: De la complicité avec les dictatures au «capitalisme éthique» (Roland-Pierre Paringaux, Le Monde Diplomatique, décembre 2000)

{···français} Le pétrole en Afrique, la violence faite au peuple: Cette vaste enquête très documentée montre comment l'économie de l'or noir, en Afrique, loin de favoriser le progrès économique et social, vampirise les ressources financières et humaines des pays concernés. (Le Monde Diplomatique, décembre 2000)

Guatemalan Oil Debacle (Marianne Mollman, Multinational Monitor, Dec. 2000)

Reputation and Responsibility: The New Corporate Overhead? (John Mitchell, Chairman of the Energy & Environment Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, presentation to 2000 Oil & Money Conference, 15 Nov. 2000)

A Gusher for Everyone? Chad's pipeline could help investors and the poor (Paul Raeburn, Business Week, 6 Nov. 2000)

Whose Globe? The plight of local people gets a voice in corporate boardrooms (Paul Raeburn and Sheridan Prasso, Business Week, 6 Nov. 2000)

Aceh: ecological war zone - Natural resources are one of the main factors underlying the independence struggle in Aceh, but decades of plunder have left them severely depleted. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Resource exploitation continues as tension mounts: Indonesian and foreign companies continue to profit from West Papua's resources as the military resumes its tough line with the independence movement. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Police fire on Unocal protesters [Indonesia]: Twenty three people were injured when police moved in to break up a protest blockade at Unocal's oil and gas terminal in East Kalimantan...The villagers were protesting against the US-based company's failure to meet demands for compensation or deal with pollution problems. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Capitalism Invades Tibet 50 Years after Troops (Reuters, 24 Oct. 2000)

New Report Documents China's Exploitation of Tibet's Oil and Mineral Resources: BP and ENI/AGIP Implicated in Economic Colonization of Tibet - Tibetan Government in Exile Calls Increased Drilling "Problematic" (Project Underground, 13 Oct. 2000)

Fueling Genocide: Talisman Energy and the Sudanese Slaughter (Gabriel Katsh, Multinational Monitor, Oct. 2000)

Bolivia: indigenous peoples concerned by oil prospection (World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Oct. 2000)

BP's investment in PetroChina

Claim Against Unocal Rejected: Judge Cites Evidence of Abuses in Burma but No Jurisdiction (William Branigin, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2000)

Sudan's oil - Fuelling a fire (The Economist [UK], 2 Sep. 2000)

The effectiveness of US litigation against MNCs in Burma (H. Knox Thomas, Human Rights Defender, Sep. 2000)

Enron in India: the Dabhol Disaster (Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch, 20 July 2000)

Getting Corporations Serious About Social Responsibility (Earth Times News Service, 18 July 2000)

Nigerian Court Fines Shell $40 Million for 1970 Spill (Environment News Service, 26 June 2000)

The IMF and Angola: Oil and Human Rights (Human Rights Watch, 22 June 2000)

Spilling trouble [Burma] (Yin Shao Loong, Malaysiakini.com, 7 June 2000, on The Burmanet News, 9 June 2000)

Controversial Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Funding Approved (Environment News Service, 6 June 2000) 

Saudi Arabia Business Briefing (Amnesty International UK Business Group, June 2000)

The International Monetary Fund's Staff Monitoring Program for Angola: The Human Rights Implications (Human Rights Watch, June 2000) 

US, British Oil Corporations Tied To Myanmar Human Rights Abuses [Burma] (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 22 May 2000)

An Interview with the Leader of the Burmese Opposition--Why does France Help Dictators? (Guillaume Leger interview of Aung San Suu Kyi, Le Nouvel Observateur, 18-24 May 2000)

NGOs accuse Unocal [Indonesia]: Environmental NGOs JATAM and WALHI have exposed the long-running problems of pollution near the site of US-based Unocal's oil and gas terminal. (Down to Earth Newsletter, May 2000)

Sudan - The Human Price of Oil (Amnesty International, May 2000)

U.S. firms plan fund for victims of Hitler: Move partly aimed at heading off lawsuits (Joseph Kahn, New York Times News Service, Chicago Tribune, 30 April 2000)

Britain backs ugly war for oil [Sudan] (Julie Flint, Observer, 16 Apr. 2000)

PUBLIC STATEMENT: Myanmar and Premier Oil [Burma] (Amnesty International, 12 April 2000)

200 groups call on World Bank to phase out destructive oil, mining and gas projects (Friends of the Earth, 10 Apr. 2000) 

At the Intersection of Business and Human Rights (Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2000)

BP-Amoco - Exerting positive influence?, in Human rights -- is it any of your business? [A management primer] (Amnesty International UK Business Group / Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, Apr. 2000)   

The U'wa-Oxy Standoff [Colombia] (Charlie Cray, Multinational Monitor, Apr. 2000)

Spoils of War (Holger Jensen, Nando Times, 15 Mar. 2000)

Human rights issues should be part of investment decisions (Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections, 9 Mar. 2000)

Battle against oppression abroad turns to Wall Street: Religious and human-rights activists target stocks and capital markets to stop a war of 'genocide' in Sudan [refers to Talisman, Petronas, PetroChina] (Jane Lampman, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2000)

Blood and Oil in Burma (Daniel Zwerdling, American RadioWorks, National Public Radio, Mar. 2000)

Canadian corporate responsibility and the war in Sudan (Ernie Regehr, Project Ploughshares, Ploughshares Monitor, Mar. 2000)

SUDAN: Talisman Energy Abets Tyranny -- Report (United Nations Foundation, UN Wire, 15 Feb 2000)

BP & PetroChina: The Tibet Issue / The Sudan Issue (15 Feb. 2000, BP)

Saudi Arabia: Open for Business (Amnesty International, 8 Feb. 2000)

Dying for oil: U'wa leader Roberto Pérez speaks about indigenous resistance to the Colombian oil rush (Camille T. Taiara, Bay Guardian [San Francisco], 7 Feb. 2001)

Globalization and Human Rights (Pierre Sané, Secretary General, Amnesty International, speech at Energy Conference 2000, Sanderstolen, Norway, 2 Feb. 2000)

Oil Giants Once Again Accused of Abuses [Nigeria] (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 27 Jan. 2000)

Groups Urge Unocal's New CEO to Call for End to Human Rights and Environmental Abuses in Burma: Earth Day Network, Sierra Club and Amnesty International Hold Unocal Accountable for Yadana Natural Gas Pipeline Project (Earth Day Network, 24 Jan. 2001)

Human Security in Sudan (the Harker report) (excerpts from executive summary of report prepared for the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jan. 2000)

Oil For Nothing: Multinational Corporations, Environmental Destruction, Death and Impunity in the Niger Delta [Nigeria] (Essential Action and Global Exchange, Jan. 2000)

Environmentalists Under Fire: 10 Urgent Cases of Human Rights Abuses (joint publication by Amnesty International USA and The Sierra Club, Jan. 2000)

The business response to HIV/AIDS: impact and lessons learned [Section 5, "Profiles of business activities in response to HIV/AIDS", includes profiles of American International Assurance, Thailand; The Body Shop, Japan; Warsaw Marriott Hotel; Larsen & Toubro, India; Volkswagen do Brasil; Molson Breweries, Canada; Chevron Nigeria; Standard Chartered Bank, UK; International Hotel & Restaurant Association; Anglo Coal, South Africa; Eskom, South Africa; ALMS, Czech Republic; Teddy Exports, India; Bristol Myers Squibb, USA; The Shell Company of Thailand] (Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum in collaboration with UNAIDS and Global Business Council on HIV/AIDS, 2000)

The Initial Public Offering of PetroChina: A Report by the AFL-CIO's Office of Investment (PetroChina Watch, AFL-CIO, 2000)

Council on Economic Priorities Names the Industry Leaders for the Year 2000 [Campaign for Cleaner Corporations] (Council on Economic Priorities, 2000)

1999:

Coal blight in South Kalimantan [Indonesia]: In South Kalimantan province, coal mining - involving Australian companies - is continuing to disrupt the lives of local communities. In Hulu Sungai Utara district, the district head, Suhailin Muchtar said that both legal and illegal coal mining activities had damaged the environment. PT Adaro Indonesia's coal mine (part-owned by Australia's New Hope) operates in this district. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 1999)

Oil and diamonds fuel war in Angola (Alex Vines, Human Rights Watch, in Human Rights & Business Matters, newsletter of Amnesty International UK Business Group, autumn 1999/winter 2000)

Investing in unstable regions (Nick Killick of International Alert, and Jordana Friedman, in Human Rights & Business Matters, newsletter of Amnesty International UK Business Group, autumn 1999/winter 2000)

Corporate investment in zones of conflict: The case of BP in Casanare, Colombia (Dr. Jenny Pearce, Unversity of Bradford Dept. of Peace Studies, in Human Rights & Business Matters, newsletter of Amnesty International UK Section Business Group,  autumn 1999/winter 2000)

A Crude Awakening - The Role of the Oil and Banking Industries in Angola's Civil War and the Plunder of State Assets (report, Global Witness, Dec. 1999)

Shell Brasil's fight against child labour (International Chamber of Commerce, 30 Nov. 1999)

Impacts of WTO On The Environment, Cultures and Indigenous Peoples (Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Director of Tebtebba Foundation [Indigenous Peoples' International Centre for Policy Research and Education] and Convenor of Asia Indigenous Women's Network, 29 Nov. 1999)

Hard Issues, Innovative Approaches: Improving NGO-Industry Dialogue on Corporate Responsibility and Accountability (California Global Corporate Accountability Project, Nov. 1999)

relevant sections of Business and Human Rights in a Time of Change (Christopher Avery, Nov. 1999):

Fight for Sudan's Oil is Killing Civilians: Canadian company part of consortium developing fields being cleared by force in civil war (Damien Lewis, Globe and Mail [Toronto], 5 Oct. 1999)

Partners in Time? Business, NGOs and Sustainable Development (David F. Murphy and Jem Bendell, UNRISD News [U.N. Research Institute for Social Development Bulletin], no. 21, autumn/winter 1999)

Angola Unravels: The Rise and Fall of the Lusaka Peace Process (Human Rights Watch, Sep. 1999)

The Chad Cameroon Oil and Pipeline Project: Putting People and the Environment at Risk (Environmental Defense Fund [U.S.], Association Tchadienne pour la Promotion et la Defense des Droits de l'Homme [Chad], Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement [Cameroon], Sep. 1999)

Deep in The Republic of Chevron [Nigeria] (Norimitsu Onishi, Sunday New York Times Magazine, 4 July 1999)

Good intentions are not enough: A report on BP Amoco's involvement in the Casanare region of Colombia (CAFOD, Catholic Institute for International Relations, Christian Aid, Oxfam GB, Save the Children UK, July 1999)

Canny companies come clean: Firms are finding that it pays to tell the truth about their social and environmental impact (Terry Slavin, Observer [U.K.], 27 June 1999)

Oil Companies Investing in Burma Under Fire in Europe (Tom Kramer, Burma Centre Netherlands, in The Irrawaddy, Vol. 7, No. 5, June 1999)

Alaska natives take message of climate catastrophe to BP AGM (Greenpeace, Apr. 1999)

Ecuador: oil exploitation banned in protected areas (World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, Mar. 1999)

The New Corporate Challenge: Globalization requires companies to do more than seek higher profits (Sir Geoffrey Chandler, Chair of Amnesty International UK Business Group, Time, 1 Feb. 1999)

The Enron Corporation: Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations [India] (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 1999)

The Price of Oil: Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria's Oil Producing Communities (Human Rights Watch, Jan. 1999)

The World's Indigenous Peoples (Russel Barsh, White Paper commissioned by Calvert Group Funds, 1999) 

1998:

Corporations and Conscience (editorial, New York Times, 6 Dec. 1998)

The Evolution of Corporate Responsibility: From Unbridled Markets to Mature Capitalism (Roy Culpeper, President, North-South Institute, address to The Canadian Centre for Ethics and Corporate Policy, Toronto, 2 Dec. 1998)

Pennzoil settles racial discrimination suit [USA] (Houston Business Journal, 11 Nov. 1998)

ENVIRONMENT-RIGHTS: New 'Ogonilands' Crop up a Continent Away (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 10 Nov. 1998)

Regents ban any future investment in Total Oil [Burma] (Robin Huiras, The Minnesota Daily [University of Minnesota], 9 Oct. 1998)

Oil and Human Rights Proving a Complicated Mix in Azerbaijan (David Case, Pew Fellowships in International Journalism, fall 1998)

Bangchak Petroleum - Cooperatives as Owners [Thailand] (Makati Business Club, Philippines Business, Sep. 1998)

Forced labour in Myanmar (Burma) (International Labour Organization, 2 July 1998)

ENVIRONMENT: New Campaign Targets Oil Investors and Consumers [Colombia] (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 14 Apr. 1998)

Colombia: Human rights concerns raised by the security arrangements of transnational oil companies (Human Rights Watch, Apr. 1998)

Burmese Pro-democracy Leader Slams UK Oil Company And Questions UK Foreign Policy (The Burma Campaign UK, 30 Mar. 1998)

Multinational Enterprises and Human Rights: A Documentation of the Dialogue Between Amnesty International/Pax Christi and Shell (Pax Christi Netherlands, Feb. 1998)

Algerian killings fuel oil groups' concern: An increase in violence risks disturbing the isolated existence of foreign companies -...Developments are compounding foreign company concerns over employee safety and the public relations dilemma about working with a controversial regime. (Roula Khalaf & Robert Corzine, Financial Times, 5 Jan. 1998)

Algerian horrors:...The least it [the Algerian Government] can do now is accede to the growing demand, voiced in particular by Mary Robinson, the UN's human rights commissioner, for impartial external investigators to be given full access so that responsibility for the massacres can be established as clearly as possible. The longer it refuses that demand, the more it brings suspicion on itself, and the more uncomfortable investors must feel doing business with the generals in Algiers. (editorial/leader, Financial Times, 5 Jan. 1998)

Business Ethics and Human Rights (Damian Grace, Australian Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 4, Issue 2, 1998)

1997:

RIGHTS: Tribunal Attacks Violations Against Indigenous Groups (Marvette Darien, Inter Press Service, 11 Dec. 1997)

Business and Human Rights: 5 Common Misconceptions (Christopher Avery, Dec. 1997)

Multinationals Undermine Environment (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 14 Oct. 1997)

COLOMBIA-RIGHTS: Indigenous Group Testifies Against Oil Giant (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 9 Oct. 1997)

ENVIRONMENT - G-7: Indigenous Groups Lament Record After Rio (Doug Vaughan, Inter Press Service, 23 June 1997)

VENEZUELA-INDIGENOUS: Waraos Analyse Impact of Oil Drilling (Estrella Gutierrez, Inter Press Service, 20 Mar. 1997)

ECUADOR-INDIGENOUS: Ransom or Indemnisation? (Mario Gonzalez, Inter Press Service, 25 Feb. 1997)

ENVIRONMENT-PERU: Communities Divided Over Shell Natural Gas Scheme (Pratap Chatterjee, Inter Press Service, 29 Jan. 1997)

INDIGENOUS-ECUADOR: Amazon Tribe's Fight Against Oil Companies (Inter Press Service, 6 Jan. 1997)

Running on Empty: Shell in Nigeria (NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry, 1997)

1996:

Shell has human rights rethink (Simon Beavis and Paul Brown, The Guardian [U.K.], 8 Nov. 1996)

TOTAL DENIAL: A Report on the Yadana Pipeline Project in Burma (EarthRights International and Southeast Asian Information Network, July 1996)

1994:

Shell South Africa support for Creating Your Constitution (an English-Zulu handbook published in 1994 by the Community Law Centre, designed to help rural South Africans understand  the country's Interim Constitution and participate in the drafting of the final Constitution)