Barrick Gold to offer gang rape victims compensation if they agree not to sue.

Years after being sexually assaulted by Barrick Gold security staff, gang rape victims are finally being offered counselling and micro loans — but only if they waive their right to sue the world’s largest gold company.

Glade: label potentially harmful chemicals.

Glade stinks — and it’s not just the smell. SC Johnson, Glade’s parent company, is refusing to disclose the chemicals in each of its products. Tell Glade to stop hiding chemicals in its products.

Nestlé is sucking water from an Ontario watershed during drought conditions

Nestlé’s Chairman and former CEO once infamously declared that “access to water should not be a public right.” And now his company is putting into practice its belief that every resource should be commodified and sold off. Nestlé is sucking up water from a Canadian watershed during drought conditions — to bottle and sell it off.

Nike: cut ties with companies profiting slavery.

Every year, more than a million men, women, and children in Uzbekistan are forced by their government to work in the state-run cotton harvest. Those who speak out or resist are routinely harassed, detained, and tortured. Nike could help stop these crimes by joining a global boycott of companies that do business with the Uzbek cotton industry, but the sportswear… more