NGOs IN THE NEWS
Physicians Tie Coal to Mortality
PSR's report associates coal pollutants to four of the five leading causes of mortality in America.
Activists Protest Against Fur Sales
In protest of fur sales, activists vandalise homes of top management personnels of Max Mara Fashion Group.
Jewelers Commit to Responsible Sourcing
Sears Holdings, Ultra Strores, and Blue Nile commit to seeking cleaner sources of precious metals.
Financial Industry Invests Heavily in Key Lawmakers
Senate and House banking committee members receive 2.5 times the amount other members of Congress received from financial services industry.
Locals Block Movement of Ore to Illegal Stockyard
2000 locals blockade Marcventures Mining & Development Corporation from moving ore to an illegally constructed stockyard.
ACCOUNTABILITY & TRANSPARENCY TRENDS
Is the Left Turning Against Cap-and-Trade?
The economic impact of cap-and-trade is a wild card and it has its skeptics across the ideological spectrum.
Chevron’s Headache: NGOs and Film Raise Profile of 27 Billion Dollar Case
The recent release of the documentary film Crude: the Real Price of Oil has elevated the profile of an already widely discussed environmental lawsuit pitting indigenous Ecuadorians against oil giant Chevron.
Why Climate Change Legislation Is Turning Corporate America Green
This is a precarious moment for supporters of a measured approach to carbon emissions legislation. On Thursday, Nike became the latest prominent U.S. company to break from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its fierce opposition to the cap-and-trade bill now languishing in the Senate.
NGOs Battle Over “Green Wood” Certification
President Obama, who is publicly committed to greening the government, is caught in the middle of a fierce competition between NGOs over what “green” certification system best encourages sustainable forestry.
NGO CAMPAIGN & ADVOCACY ALERT
NGO's regularly call for boycotts and campaigns, targeting corporations and governments for alleged misdeeds. Do these campaigns present a fair accounting of these issues? NGO Watch highlights the most prominent campaigns to give you the story behind the story.
The AMERICAN
Human Rights Watch’s Bias
What qualifies as bias when it comes to human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch, which pledges to defend the defenseless, ideology aside? According to HRW’s founder Robert Bernstein, who was the nongovernmental organization’s active chairman for 20 years and is now founding chairman emeritus, HRW has lost its way when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Energy Security and Environmentalism Go Head-to-Head in Battle Over Oil Sand Reserves
The nexus between energy security and climate change is again in focus, with the relocation of the UN’s climate talks from the UN General Assembly in New York to Bangkok for the final stretch of meetings before the December Copenhagen conference. One of the key challenges: considering that the transition to alternative fuels is still largely a distant dream, how do country’s limit carbon emissions from the largest new fossil fuel sources, including the massive oil sand reserves in Canada and Venezuela.
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