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2000:

U.S. scheme to dump used mercury in India faces strong opposition (Greenpeace USA, 26 Dec. 2000)

What Should We Really Expect from Big Business? Simon Zadek argues that we should enlist corporations to tackle poverty and environmental degradation in this essay based on his forthcoming publication for the Foreign Policy Centre, Public Policy and Business in Society (Simon Zadek, Global Thinking, winter 2001)

Most US High-Tech Companies Fail to Earn Passing Grades on Environmental Report Card (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, 18 Dec. 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)

Green issues won't go away [Thailand] (Wasant Techawongtham, Deputy News Editor for Environment and Urban Affairs, Bangkok Post, 8 Dec. 2000)

Globalization’s downside - From shipyard to graveyard: Is there a decent way to break ships? - ...Local businesses and others say the annual breaking of some 700 ships benefits the five nations (India, Bangladesh, China, Pakistan and Viet Nam) where the work takes place these days. But critics claim these countries have become dump sites for the industrialized world; an environmental disaster and an example of poor, often highly dangerous working conditions. (World of Work - The Magazine of the ILO, Dec. 2000)

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

Restoring the Forests: Skinhead Earth? (David Victor and Jesse Ausubel, Foreign Affairs, Nov./Dec. 2000)

No deal for the climate as Hague talks collapse (OneWorld.Net, 25 Nov. 2000)

Groups condemn latest blow to environmental protection at the hands of NAFTA (Sierra Club of Canada, 21 Nov. 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)

Indigenous Peoples Delegation to the Sixth Session of the U.N. Conference of the Parties on Climate Change (16 Nov. 2000)

Declaration of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (Second International Indigenous Forum on Climate Change, 11-12 Nov. 2000)

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

On the Ground Research: A Research Agenda for Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining Activity -- Submitted to the International Development Research Centre (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 6 Nov. 2000) 

Campaign Wants Paper Companies to ‘Come Clean’: A new shareholder campaign for the 2001 proxy season will try to get pulp and paper companies to be more forthcoming about the potential environmental liabilities they face. Bruce Herbert of Newground Investments in Seattle, Wash., is spearheading the campaign, which is expected to target up to a dozen U.S. forest products companies. (Doug Cogan, Investor Responsibility Resource Center [IRRC], Nov. 2000)

Environmental Discrimination: Issues and Themes (Jorge Daniel Taillant, Centro de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente / Center for Human Rights and the Environment [CEDHA], Nov. 2000)

Chile: Wine production threatened by pulp mill project (World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, 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)

Rio Tinto: blockades and strikes hit Kalimantan mines [Indonesia] - The past months have seen unprecedented direct action by local people and mine workers protesting against injustice at Rio Tinto's PT KEM and Kaltim Prima mines. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

WALHI opposes PT CPM [Indonesia]: The Central Sulawesi chapter of environmental organisation WALHI has been making the case against gold-mining by PT Citra Palu Minerals in the Poboya-Paneki area of East Palu sub-district, Central Sulawesi...The area is a Taman Raya Hutan - a forest park - designed for conservation and watershed protection. Open-pit mining is illegal in protected forests...The group has also expressed dismay at Rio Tinto, who they say are carrying out survey work in Morowali nature reserve. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Newmont under siege: Newmont, the US-based mining company, has again come under fire at both its operations in Indonesia. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Indigenous miners evicted [Indonesia]: There has been further conflict at indigenous mining lands inside the PT Indo Muro Kencana gold concession operated by Australia's Aurora Gold in Central Kalimantan. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 2000)

Mining in 'protected' forests [Indonesia]: Mining companies are lobbying to change legislation which prohibits open-pit mining in areas designated as protected forests...NGOs fear that the government will cave in to industry and economic pressures and give the go-ahead for open-pit mining to resume in protected forests. (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)

Freeport: still getting away with it - A series of official investigations into Freeport Indonesia, operators of the huge Grasberg gold and copper mine in West Papua, has done nothing as yet to curb the excessive environmental damage caused by the company. It is business as usual at the US-British-owned mine, despite persistent questions over the company's contract, its environmental and human rights record and allegations of corrupt share allocations. (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)

UNEP head for cooperation on trade and environment (Lean Ka-Min, Third World Network, 24 Oct. 2000)

Corporate giants begin greenhouse gas trading programme (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 18 Oct. 2000)

Demonstrations Target CITIGROUP in 50 Cities as Corporation Announces Record Earnings: Groups Demand an End to Company Profits at the Environment's Expense (Rainforest Action Network and Inner City Press, 17 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)

Government, IUCN, UNDP to Launch 'Debt for Nature Swap' [Jordan] (Ruba Saqr, Jordan Times, 10 Oct. 2000)

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

Promoting Socially Responsible Business in Developing Countries [conference: 23-24 October 2000, Geneva] (UNRISD News [U.N. Research Institute for Social Development Bulletin], no. 23, autumn/winter 2000)

Kenyans tour to raise awareness of Tiomin's strip-mining plans for titanium (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, Newsletter, No. 4, autumn 2000)

Canadian Mining Companies Profit from Burma's Misery (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 18 Sep. 2000)

Banking on the Environment: Bregje Hamelink is environmental coordinator for the Dutch Development Bank, (known as the Development Finance Company or FMO). For over 25 years it has been lending money to financial institutions in developing countries to help them fund worthwhile projects that might not get commercial loans. Nowadays, the FMO is urging its partners-in-finance to look at the impact of their investments.  With this in mind they've been running an environmental management course aimed specifically at top managers with financial institutions in developing countries. They're being urged to think ‘environment' when financing their small development projects. (Radio Netherlands, 15 Sep. 2000)

Malaysia: Environment - Forest of Contradictions: Eco-tourism is touted as offering the best hope for saving Sabah's rich habitats.  So far, though, it's done little to halt the pressure on wildlife.  But even if it did, is it really sustainable over the long term? (Simon Elegant, Far Eastern Economic Review, 14 Sep. 2000)

Environment groups organise against NAFTA rules (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 8 Sep. 2000)

Declaration Of The First International Forum Of Indigenous Peoples On Climate Change (Sep. 2000)

On The Ground Research: A Workshop to Identify the Research Needs of Communities Affected by Large-Scale Mining ­ April 14-16 2000, Ottawa, Canada - Workshop Report (MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development, Sep. 2000)

Canadian Resources Company Creating Conflict in Eastern Kenya [includes a response from Tiomin Resources Inc.] (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 18 Aug. 2000)

Observations on the right to water as a human right (statement submitted to the UN by International Council of Environmental Law, 4 Aug. 2000) 

In The Fields of Indonesia: An Interview with Nila Ardhianie (Multinational Monitor, July-Aug. 2000)

China's Taiyuan Works With UN Environmental Program To Promote Clean Production (Xinhua, 26 July 2000)

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

Australian Mining Companies: Inquiry needed into the impact of their overseas operations (Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], July 2000)

Promoting Sustainable Social Progress (Fackson Shamenda, President, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, 27 June 2000)

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

Request to Export-Import Bank [of the United States] for immediate stay on consideration of funding of the Chad-Cameroon pipeline (from 18 non-governmental organisations, including Friends of the Earth and the Sierra Club, 8 June 2000)

Malaysian loggers in Cambodia threaten proposed Cardamom Mountain reserve (press release, Global Witness, 8 June 2000)

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

Mining Industry in India and Dynamics of Peoples' Resistances (J. John, Labour File, June-July 2000)

Mining in India: Movements, Multinationals and Malaise [provides examples of mining projects, and local resistance to those projects, including resistance by tribal peoples] (Suman Ray, Labour File, June-July 2000)

Communities Come together to Demand Rights [India]: Over two hundred activists representing people's movements, trade unions, and NGO's working among people affected by mining operations met at the First National Convention in Tukkuguda near Hyderabad on 28 May 2000 - Communities are kept in the dark before mining begins. People are not aware of its implications to their health, water resources and the environment. (Labour File, June-July 2000) 

The Governance of Corporate Groups - Starting from a discussion of the theoretical underpinning of the place companies occupy in society, this book explores the consequences of adherence to free market contractualist theory, including the lack of regulatory control of a sufficiently robust nature. Professor Dine...highlights the tragic consequences of globalisation by transnationals including polarisation of income and environmental damage, and suggests a possible legal framework to prevent future damages. (Cambridge University Press abstract of The Governance of Corporate Groups, Janet Dine, June 2000)

Greenpeace CEO congratulates Coca-Cola on move away from greenhouse gases ahead of Green Olympics in Sydney (Greenpeace, June 2000) 

Warning: World Bank Policies Destroy Forests - Internal Report Documents Bank Contribution to Deforestation (Korinna Horta, Multinational Monitor, June 2000)

Visible Hands: Taking Responsibility for Social Development (U.N. Research Institute for Social Development [UNRISD], June 2000)

Social and economic inequities impeding global environmental action (Worldwatch Institute, 27 May 2000)

Forgotten Promises and Forgotten Lessons: The OAS, the FTAA and Environmental Protection (Christine Elwell, Senior Policy Analyst, Sierra Club of Canada, 27 May 2000)

Written Presentation [regarding mining issues in Central Asia] to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade [Canada] (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte Canada, 4 May 2000)

Green Dividends?  The Relationship Between Firms' Environmental Performance and Financial Performance (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Government, May 2000)   For full text of this report in PDF format, click here and locate "green dividends.pdf" on the list of documents.

Chainsaws speak louder than words [Cambodia] (report, Global Witness, May 2000)

Ford's Smokescreen (Charlie Cray, Multinational Monitor, May 2000)

Contracts and communities: Opposition is mounting to large-scale mining in Indonesia as communities speak out about its effects on their lives and the environment, but foreign companies are warning the Wahid government not to change the contracts they signed during the Suharto regime. [refers to mining companies including Newmont, Inco, Freeport, Rio Tinto] (Down to Earth Newsletter, May 2000)

Communities confront loggers [Indonesia]: Indigenous communities whose forests have been plundered by logging companies are demanding compensation for the damage. Deprived of the protection they enjoyed under former President Suharto, the companies are having to take them seriously. (Down to Earth Newsletter, May 2000)

Displaced villagers win back land [Indonesia]: Villagers in South Sumatra have successfully regained some of their forest which the government had allocated as a plantation concession to PT Musi Hutan Persada (PT MHP). The Department of Forestry and Plantations has agreed to hand 12,050 ha back to the former inhabitants of 12 villages in the sub-district of Rambang Lubai. (Down to Earth Newsletter, 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)

Spotlight on the environment [opening of headquarters of Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe] (Dahlia Hammouda, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line [Cairo], 20-26 Apr. 2000)

Philippines a Litmus Test for Placer's Environmental Policy (MiningWatch Canada / Mines Alerte, 20 Apr. 2000)

Uranium Miners, Families Bring Tales of Pain to Washington (Associated Press, Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2000)

Indonesian Forum to Campaign for Environment Audit on Freeport (Antara/Asia Pulse, 11 Apr. 2000)

Environmental, Human Rights Activists Target Banks: Three Gorges Campaign highlights Discover Card Boycott (Sharon Behn, Agence France Presse, 6 Apr. 2000)

Trade, Labor & the Environment (Brookings Institution, Resources for the Future, Apr. 2000)

Brazil: Greenpeace and Deni Indians demand removal of logging from indigenous lands (Greenpeace, Apr. 2000)

Globalization straining planet's health: Alliances needed to safeguard environment (Worldwatch Institute, 25 Mar. 2000)

'New economy' and small companies worst at environmental reporting (PIRC [Pensions Investment Research Consultants], 19 Mar. 2000)

Is GM safe? (BBC, 9 Mar. 2000)

Nevada's Mines Emit High Levels of Mercury into Air, Figures Show (Faith Bremner, Reno Gazette-Journal, 2 Mar. 2000)

Reckless Lending: How Canada's Export Development Corporation Puts People and the Environment at Risk (NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation, part of the Halifax Initiative Coalition, Mar. 2000)

GM Food Safety: Facts, Uncertainties, and Assessment: The OECD Edinburgh Conference on the Scientific and Health Aspects of Genetically Modified Foods (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Feb.-Mar. 2000)

Trading the Environment (Shalmali Guttal, Focus on the Global South, 9 Feb. 2000)

Spotlight on Indonesia's forests: With the release of new maps and data on forest cover (or the lack of it) in Indonesia, the Jakarta government is having to face up to the country's rapid deforestation rate...The state of Indonesia's forests is now so bad that, in early January, the World Bank threatened that it would not fund any further efforts to protect Indonesia's forests unless the government takes firm action against illegal loggers and implemented forest policy reforms within the year. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Feb. 2000)

Illegal log exports from Mentawai Islands [Indonesia]: The Padang-based NGO, Pakis, has exposed two cases of log smuggling from the Pagai islands, part of the Mentawai chain off the west coast of Sumatra. The shipments totalling over 13,000 cubic metres of tropical hardwoods were worth around US$2 billion on the international market, plus the taxes and levies due to the Indonesian government. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Feb. 2000)

Loggers rush to strip Siberut [Indonesia]: Siberut provides a vivid example of the way the powerful combination of Indonesia's economic problems and changes to local autonomy and forestry legislation threaten the future of the country's forests and indigenous people. A UNESCO workshop on conservation and sustainable development for the Siberut biosphere zone brought various conflicting parties together to look for local solutions. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Feb. 2000)

Protests at PT TEL pulp plant [Indonesia]: Community anger is being directed at the newly completed plant in South Sumatra - The US$1 billion development is financed largely by Japanese, European and North American companies and banks. Equipment and technical services have been provided by Scandinavian, German and Canadian companies backed by Export Credit Agreements. This is yet another example of how the interests of foreign investors and export revenues are being put before the health and sustainable livelihoods of local communities in the name of 'economic development'. Tension between local communities and the management of the Tanjung Enim Lestari (PT TEL) paper pulp plant erupted into violence in mid-December...The estimated 30,000 people living in neighbouring communities have no idea about the potential environmental impacts of the pulp plant. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Feb. 2000)

Undermining the forests: The need to control transnational mining companies - A Canadian case study - Undermining the Forests, a new report published by the Forest Peoples Programme, the World Rainforest Movement and Philippine Indigenous Peoples Links, documents cases from around the world of the disastrous impact that Canadian mining enterprises are having upon the world's forests and forest peoples. Undermining the Forests details cases from around the world that clearly indicate not only the appalling unresolved legacy of past bad practice but the continuation of serious human rights violations, impoverishment and massive and irreparable environmental damage. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Feb. 2000)

Global Mining Initiative: Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development: Sir Robert Wilson's paper which reflects on the rationale behind the Global Mining Initiative and the processes involved in this undertaking (Global Mining Initiative, Report on the Governors Meeting for the Mining and Metals Industry, 31 Jan. - 1 Feb. 2000)

Biosafety Protocol Agreed (Friends of the Earth, 29 Jan. 2000)

Inco in Indonesia: A Report for Canadian People (Arianto Sangaji, Palu, 7 Jan. 2000)

Human Rights Accountability of Private Business: A Question of Sustainable Development (Romina Picolotti and Jorge Daniel Taillant, Center for Human Rights and Environment [CEDHA], Jan. 2000)

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

Stuck in the Mud: The Future in Our Hands [regarding shipbreaking industry] (Morten Rønning, NorWatch, Jan. 2000)

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

Human Rights, Environment and Development: With Special Emphasis on Corporate Accountability (Ayesha Dias, UNDP Human Development Report 2000: Human Rights and Human Development Background Paper, UNDP, 2000)

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

Trading Away the Climate? (Royal Institute of International Affairs press release about book: D. Brack, M. Grubb and C. Windram,  International Trade and Climate Change Policies [Royal Institute of International Affairs and Earthscan Publications, 2000])

Environmental Trade-Offs? (Royal Institute of International Affairs press release about book: H. Ward and D. Brack, eds., Trade, Investment and the Environment [Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2000]) 

Environmental reporting and the medium sized company (Rachel Jackson, Markus Milne and Dave Owen, 2000)

1999:

Beyond the Chemical Century: Restoring Human Rights and Preserving the Fabric of Life (Environmental Health Fund and Strategic Counsel on Corporate Accountability, 3 Dec. 1999)

Global Witness Appointed Independent Monitor of [Cambodia's] Foresty Sector (Global Witness, 2 Dec. 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)

Dayaks reoccupy traditional mines in Aurora Gold concession [Indonesia]: After many years of peaceful process and unsuccessful negotiations, Dayaks communities in Central Kalimantan have moved back on to their traditional mining sites. This direct action was taken as a last resort to defend rights consistently denied by the Indonesian government and by the mining company which took over their lands. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 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)

Rio Tinto in Southeast Sulawesi - Rio Tinto's Indonesia record worsens (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 1999)

Advance of the biotech giants: Farmers' groups and NGOs supporting them in south-east Asia are concerned that a second Green Revolution is gathering pace, fuelled by advances in genetic engineering. These developments involve close collaboration between international and national research institutions and the private sector – mainly giant biotech companies. A paper by NGOs from Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia argues that hybrid varieties and genetically-modified (GM) maize present a huge threat to food security and agricultural sustainability. (Down to Earth Newsletter, Nov. 1999) 

Bhopal and the Age of Globalization [India] (Gary Cohen, Nov. 1999) 

Inupiat Eskimos and Greenpeace go to court to challenge BP Amoco oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean [USA] (Greenpeace, Oct. 1999)

Trade Unions and Environmentalists Join Hands to Challenge Dirty Shipbreaking in Asia (Greenpeace, 21 Sep. 1999)

The Greening of Business in Mexico (David Barkin, UNRISD News [U.N. Research Institute for Social Development Bulletin], no. 21, autumn/winter 1999)

Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development: An increasing number of large firms claim that they are adopting policies and practices conducive to sustainable development. This paper asks whether these assertions are valid. It assesses the current range of their efforts, and finds that change is taking place in a piecemeal fashion. The paper then considers whether there are forces that might permit a scaling-up of initiatives associated with corporate responsibility, thus enabling business to make a more meaningful contribution to sustainable development. (Peter Utting, UNRISD News [U.N. Research Institute for Social Development Bulletin], no. 21, autumn/winter 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)

Grave Diggers: A Report on Mining in Burma (Roger Moody / Canada Asia Pacific Resource Network, 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)

Bhopal disaster lingers after nearly 15 years [India] (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 22 June 1999)

Native Americans denounce toxic legacy (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 14 June 1999)

Patagonia Inc. Takes Bold Stance on Environment (Philanthropy News Digest, 25 May 1999)

Basic Human Rights and the Impact of Mining Companies (Jeff Atkinson, Community Aid Abroad [Oxfam Australia], May 1999):

Toxic Justice: Human Rights, Justice and Toxic Waste in Cambodia (Human Rights Watch, May 1999)

Report on a Labor Rights-Environmental Dialogue: Labor Rights, Environmental Protection, and the Global Economy: Sharing Advocacy Experience (Workers in the Global Economy Project, Apr. 1999) 

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

Painting China Green (Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs, Mar./Apr. 1999)

Beginning to Just Do It: Current Workplace and Environmental Conditions at the Tae Kwang Vina Nike Shoe Factory in Vietnam (Dara O'Rourke and Garrett Brown, Mar. 1999)

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

A Race to the Bottom: Creating Risk, Generating Debt and Guaranteeing Environmental Destruction: A Compilation of Export Credit & Investment Insurance Agency Case Studies [includes reference to export credit agencies of U.S., Germany, Japan, Canada, Australia and Switzerland; includes reference to projects in Turkey, India, China, Philippines, Russia, Colombia, Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Togo, Indonesia] (a report by Berne Declaration, Bioforum, Center for International Environmental Law, Environmental Defense, Eurodad, Friends of the Earth, Pacific Environment and Resources Center, Urgewald-Germany; March 1999) 

Quest for cleaner products [industrial pollution in Egypt] (Shaimaa Labib, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line [Cairo], 25 Feb. - 3 Mar. 1999)

Shipbreaking is Dangerously Polluting - Greenpeace Report Finds (Greenpeace, 18 Feb. 1999)

Voluntary initiatives affecting training and education on safety, health and environment in the chemical industries (International Labour Organization, Feb. 1999)

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

Inflation and hot air may cripple Kyoto Protocol (Royal Institute of International Affairs press release about book: M. Grubb, C. Vrolijk and D. Brack, The Kyoto Protocol: a Guide and Assessment [Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1999])

Who Wants Hazardous Waste? (Royal Institute of International Affairs press release about book: J. Krueger, International Trade and the Basel Convention [Royal Institute of International Affairs and Earthscan Publications, 1999])

1998:

Leading with the foundries [enforcement of environmental laws in Egypt] (Mahmoud Bakr, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line [Cairo], 17-23 Dec. 1998)

A period of grace [enforcement action against companies by Egyptian Government's environmental ministry] (Mahmoud Bakr, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line [Cairo], 12-18 Nov. 1998)

Chip plants not safe: Semiconductor plants aren't safe and clean as billed, some say (Bill Richards, Wall Street Journal, 5 Oct. 1998)

Disaster for environment predicted: Top official urges action as he resigns [Thailand] (Kanittha Inchukul, Bangkok Post, 4 Oct. 1998) 

Kyoto's Unfinished Business: Taking the Long View on Global Warming (Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn and Richard Schmalensee, Foreign Affairs, July/Aug. 1998)

Cleansing the Nile (Mahmoud Bakr, Al-Ahram Weekly On-line [Cairo], 16-22 July 1998)

Stomping on the Earth: Trade, Trade Law, and Canada's Ecological Footprints (Canadian Environmental Law Association, May 1998)

Mining, murder and mayhem: The impact of the mining industry in the South (Danny Kennedy, Director of Project Underground, Third World Network, May 1998)

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

Consultation Works to Evolve Integrated Human Rights-Environmental Action Strategy (Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, Apr. 1998) 

Toward a Real Global Warming Treaty: The Challenge After Kyoto (Richard N. Cooper, Foreign Affairs, Mar./Apr. 1998)

Human Rights and the Environment: 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Sierra Club, 1998)

Globalization and Sustainable Development: What Regulators Are Needed?  12 Fact Sheets for Comprehension, Anticipation and Debate (MOST/UNESCO/Solagral, 1998)

1997:

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

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

ENVIRONMENT: "Devastating" Logging in Nicaragua (Danielle Knight, Inter Press Service, 9 Oct. 1997)

Corporate Environmentalism: From Rhetoric to Results (Margaret Flaherty [World Business Council for Sustainable Development] and Ann Rappaport [Assistant Professor in the department of Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University], UNRISD News, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, autumn/winter 1997)

Corporate Environmental Management Means Business as Usual (Richard Welford [Professor of Business Economics and Director of the Centre for Corporate Environmental Management at the Huddersfield University Business School, and Professor of Sustainable Management at the Norwegian School of Management], UNRISD News, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, autumn/winter 1997)

Colonos' complaint  [Ecuador] (Emily Walmsley, Index on Censorship, 8 Aug. 1997)

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

Ernst & Young Environmental and Labor Practice Audit of the Tae Kwang Vina Industrial Ltd. Co., Vietnam (Ernst & Young, 13 Jan. 1997)

Environmental harm as a human rights violation: Forging new links (Laura Ziemer, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, 1997)

An Unending Nightmare: Union Carbide in Bhopal [India] (NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry, 1997)

Scraping Bottom: Freeport McMoRan in Irian Jaya (NGO Taskforce on Business and Industry, 1997)

Business & Human Rights- Ilisu Dam and the politics of water

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

Sacred Waters: Life-Blood of Mother Earth: Four Case Studies of High-Tech Water Exploitation and Corporate Welfare in the Southwest [Executive summary] (Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition, 1997)

What do human rights have to do with environmental protection? EVERYTHING (Aaron Sachs, Nov/Dec 1997)