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	Friends of the Earth International publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This would secure the accountability of corporations to citizens and communities in today's globalised economy by establishing: rights for citizens and communities affected by corporate activities; duties on corproations with respect to social and environmental matters; and rules to ensure high standards of behaviour wherever corporations operate.
		Unless all corporations are made equally accountable for their environmental and social impacts there remains little incentive for a general improvement in behaviour.
		It has identified a raft of conventions and international instruments where corporations have obligations, but the principles are being devised because these obligations have hitherto not been set out systematically enough to amount to a legal framework for corporate accountability on human rights matters.
	www.foei.org /publications/corporates/accountability.html (4564 words)

	About Corporate Accountability International - Corporate Accountability International - Challenging Abuse, Protecting ...
		Corporate Accountability International is a membership organization that protects people by waging and winning campaigns that challenge irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions around the world.
		We are building on our successful track record to strengthen democracy by limiting corporate interference in national and international policymaking so that ordinary people around the world can hold corporations accountable for their actions and thereby put an end to irresponsible corporate behavior.
		Corporations boost profits at the expense of people's health and environment by using campaign contributions, aggressive lobbying, deceptive public relations and influence over global trade talks to write the rules that govern our economy and society to their advantage.
	www.stopcorporateabuse.org /cms/page1096.cfm (340 words)

	Corporate Accountability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Although some corporate reforms made their way into law in the form of the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley legislation, the Department of Justice's corporate crime division and the SEC are still dangerously underfunded.
		In roughly 80% of U.S. corporations, the CEO is also the chairman of the board.
		Americans want to see an end to the corporate influence in Washington, and they believe tax cuts should be awarded to businesses that create jobs here in the U.S. not those that ship jobs overseas.
	www.ourfuture.org /issues_and_campaigns/corporate_accountability (339 words)

	Corporate Accountability Reporting: CenterPoints, April, 2006 - Oregon Center for Public Policy
		It is so riddled with loopholes that big corporations today are paying a fraction of the income taxes, as a share of their profits, that they paid in Oregon a generation ago.
		Small businesses — corporations with fewer than 250 employees and less than $10 million in sales in a year (that’s less than $192,308 a week), and corporations where employee-owners are performing personal services in fields such as health, law, engineering, architecture, accounting, and consulting — are exempt.
		With large corporations getting a 36% tax cut this year in corporate kicker tax credits, and more slated for 2007, it is time we learn who’s paying their fair share in taxes, and who isn’t.
	www.ocpp.org /cgi-bin/display.cgi?page=cp0604 (689 words)

	Corporate Accountability versus Corporate Responsibility
		Corporate "responsibility" and corporate "accountability" are very often used interchangeably.
		The fundamental difference between the two concepts is corporate "accountability" requires independent oversight and enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance, whereas corporate "responsibility" relies on voluntary self-regulation.
		A corporate accountability framework would establish disclosure requirements on social and environmental impacts, so governments and the public can actually know whether corporations are conducting their activities in a responsible manner - something that voluntary initiatives fail to deliver.
	www.foe.org /WSSD/acctvsresp.html (258 words)

	Choike - Corporate accountability
		The concept encompasses a broad range of activities that corporations may engage in, with varying degrees of enthusiasm, to demonstrate that they are addressing important human rights, environmental, and labor issues—many of which have been brought to their attention by activist groups.
		Corporate Watch examines the oil industry, globalization, genetic engineering, food, toxic chemicals, privatization and many other areas, to build up a picture of almost every type of corporate crime and the nature and mechanisms of corporate power, both economic and political.
		The primary objective of its project on Corporate Accountability is to develop and launch a united civil society campaign against corporate abuse, in particular against those large multi-national corporations that are responsible for environmental destruction, wide-spread human suffering and pollution-related illnesses.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/1294.html (5974 words)

	Corporate Accountability
		Recognizing the impact of corporations on these lands, SLFP has produced a comprehensive new report exposing the enormity of the threat.
		Their Corporate Accountability Program works primarily through coordination of the NGO Task Force on Business and Industry (ToBI) to promote and implement corporate accountability within government, business and civil society.
		Calvert's Corporate Responsibility Matters campaign is an initiative designed to help contribute to healthier companies, stronger markets, and better investments by striving for integrity-driven investments, encouraging open and honest reporting, building boards that look like America, championing engaged shareownership, promoting sound business practices and public policies.
	www.sacredland.org /resources/corp.html (1809 words)

	Corporate Accountability ~ Corporate Accountability (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ) and the FIDH today propose that a legal framework is developed to ensure that corporations behave in a socially and environmentally sustainable way.
		Likewise lacking are international policy or legal instruments to hold accountable those whose economic transactions contribute to and profit from the perpetration of human rights violations.
		Our vision is of a sustainable world in which corporations’ drive for profit is balanced by the interest of society at large and respects human, social and environmental rights.
	www.corporate-accountability.org (1328 words)

	FoE Europe - Corporate Accountability
		Following this development both the number of transnational corporations has drastically increased (1) and the social and environmental impacts of their operations have gained in their global dimension of consequence.
		Instead regulations of corporations are still today to a large extent dependent on national legislation, while States are the responsible stakeholders for international laws, conventions and treaties regarding human and social rights and the environment.
		Along with the economic globalisation and the favourable development for corporations the last decades, there has been a growing demand from civil society to make corporations directly responsible for their actions.
	www.foeeurope.org /corporates/Index.htm (894 words)

	Corporate Governance
		One such effort, together with Les Greenberg of the Committee of Concerned Shareholders, was a 2002 petition to the SEC aimed at allowing shareholders access to the corporate proxy for their director nominees.
		Analytical argument and empirical research demonstrate the value of shifting from oligarchic corporate structures, where CEOs set the agenda and are paid 500 times the wages of their average employee, towards those which establish systems of accountability and encourage long-term participation by concerned shareholders (shareowners) and employees in corporate decision-making.
		The corporations that embrace such a dialogue should be better equipped to create wealth, compete in global markets, and solve the highly complex problems of the 3rd millennium.
	www.corpgov.net (1652 words)

	New Rules Project - Governance - Corporate Accountability Ordinance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Specifically, CELDF attempts to support regional efforts to use corporate charter revocation statutes to convince state Attorneys General to prosecute corporations that have a consistent history of violating local, state, and federal environmental law.
		In addition, it is the purpose of this Ordinance to ensure that the liberty of Township residents is not infringed by artificial corporate entities that cause harm or that threaten to cause harm.
		No Corporation shall be allowed to do business within the Township if it has a history of consistent violations or if its Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary Corporation has a history of consistent violations.
	www.newrules.org /gov/wayne.html (1908 words)

	Centre for Corporate Accountability
		The Centre for Corporate Accountability has proposed to the Home Office a series of reforms in this area, including the establishment within police forces of specialised units with responsibility for investigating deaths resulting from corporate activities.
		The Centre for Corporate Accountability supports the Home Office proposals to enact the new offence of corporate killing and to extend its application to organisations that are not corporations.
		Through research, advocacy and advice, the Centre for Corporate Accountability aims to increase the accountability of companies and their senior officers whose negligent, reckless or intentional conduct causes harm.
	www.corporateaccountability.org /press_releases/22Sept2000.htm (932 words)

	Corporate Accountability
		Corporations have carried out some of the worst violations of environmental and human rights in modern times.
		Economic globalization and the rise of transnational corporate power have created a favorable climate for corporate human rights abusers, which are governed principally by the codes of supply and demand and show genuine loyalty only to their stockholders.
		Global Exchange believes that when corporations act like criminals, we have the right and power to stop them, holding leaders and multinational corporations alike accountable for abuses against the health and welfare of human beings and the environment.
	www.globalexchange.org /campaigns/corpaccount (332 words)

	DNV - Corporate Accountability Practice
		There is a growing requirement placed upon manufacturing and service companies to be able to demonstrate corporate responsibility to customers, legislators, employees, shareholders, investors and environmental groups.
		Corporate sustainability practices can serve to optimize the overall performance of organizations by creating options, winning loyal customers, reducing costs, reducing risk and creating new markets and opportunities.
		The CAP Workshop is a seven-hour experiential process that will transform how you think about corporate accountability, adaptability, innovation, and change, and give you the tools you need to act on what you have learned.
	www.dnvcert.com /DNV/Certification1/Services/CAPAudits (542 words)

	Green Cap - Corporate Accountability Project
		Working with a group called Green CAP (Corporate Accountability Project), Osborn and other stockholders in publicly held companies are looking to enact social and environmental change from the inside-out.
		Muscling their way into corporate boardrooms through the power of the pocketbook, Osborn and company have pressured companies through the issuing of shareholder resolutions, in the process using a central foundation of American capitalism -- shareholder ownership in a company -- to get companies to change their ways.
		Boise Cascade shareholders require increased Board accountability because the current actions of the Board demonstrate that it is out of touch with the interests of stockholders, the general public and consumers.
	www.waterplanet.ws /greencap (1231 words)

	War On Want : Corporate accountability : Challenging Corporate Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The link between the poverty that millions of people in developing countries suffer and the lack of effective rules on corporations is clear.
		The company claims to adhere to the “highest ethical standards” and to be “an outstanding corporate citizen in every community we serve”.
		Britain could lead the way in making corporations accountable for their activities by putting in place effective regulations and making the case internationally.
	www.waronwant.org /?lid=11640 (673 words)

	Corporate Accountability Committee Main - Sierra Club
		CAC takes action through shareholder resolutions, opposing corporate water privatization, and education regarding the fundamentals of corporate power.
		The Corporate Accountability Committee facilitates the Club's response to the corporate abuse of power and its advocacy of enforceable measures to ensure corporate accountability in relation to the environment, communities and public health.
		Environmental protection requires addressing the privileged position and power of corporations which assert their presumed rights as persons and their right to operate through corporate charters without community accountability.
	www.sierraclub.org /cac (298 words)

	Corporate Accountability and the World Summit on Sustainable Development * Reports * ToBI
		The coalition represents a diversity of civil society organizations and networks from different countries and with different strategies and focus.ÃÂ However, they are united by a common concern about and commitment to realizing the accountability of corporations to society.
		As to the World Summit itself, we are again faced with a review process in which the topic of corporate accountability fades behind the strong industry promotion of voluntary initiatives and self-regulation.ÃÂ Likewise, the responsibility of business and industry in the failure to implement Agenda 21 also slips past the official assessments of progress.
		Finally, despite the increasing discussion about accountability and transparency, we can expect strong resistance from those sectors of the corporate community who claim to be increasingly responsible but clearly do not want to be held responsible.
	www.isforum.org /tobi/reports/ca-wssd.aspx (664 words)

	Account balance: can the government really ensure "corporate accountability"? Reason - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Like the Seinfeld character Cosmo Kramer's assurance that big corporations "write everything off" (at turns out Kramer doesn't know what a write-off is), the call for more corporate accountability should be measured against reality, individual executives do in fact get punished, as seen in the recent prison sentence for ImClone CEO Sam Waksal.
		If any private corporation had engaged in such patterns of malfeasance, fraud, and megabuck sleight of hand, it would have been punished by its customers, shareholders, and employees long before the government got involved.
		But it does suggest that before we give the job of promoting organizational accountability to the least accountable organization of all, we might remember the line about the fox and the henhouse.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1568/is_4_35/ai_105644255 (651 words)

	Center for Corporate Policy
		The Center for Corporate Policy is a non-profit, non-partisan public interest organization working to curb corporate abuses and make corporations publicly accountable.
		The well-coordinated corporate counterstrategy represents a desperate attempt to squash the new populist resistance to corporate rule.
		See our reports on the epidemic of Corporate Tax Haven Abuses, the Benedict Arnold Companies that commit them and the high-powered tax-traitor lobbyists they've hired to block at least 44 bills that would close the offshore loophole and bar them from federal contracts.
	www.corporatepolicy.org /index.htm (1218 words)

	Corporate Ethics and Accountability
		These "evil" corporations were led by businessmen ascribed the most selfish of motivations, a desire to grow their companies.
		According to group consensus, corporations that manufacture weapons (which helped the United States defeat Iraq in the Gulf War), refine oil (for planes and cars) or, the worst of all offenses, test their ingredients according to accepted international standards to ensure the safety of consumers.
		The corporate responsibility movement, on the other hand, has come to elevate a social and political agenda that draws on notions of liberal propriety and correctness that date to the 1960s.
	www.corpgov.net /forums/commentary/entine1.html (2259 words)

	Corporate Accountability
		The sons of Korah chose to exercise their individual responsibility, and refused to be identified in the corporate entity which initiated the rebellion, and thus they escaped the judgment of God.
		Because they are identified corporately in the guilt of their leaders, and have refused to exercise their individual responsibility.
		Those who responded to the counsel of Peter were baptized - signifying the passing from the corpus of Israel to the corpus Christi - and "continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrine and fellowship." (Acts 2:41-42) Through Christ the Truth, and by the coming of the Spirit of Truth, the original faith was restored to men.
	home.netcom.com /~crmin/csdachurch/account.html (2470 words)

	WSSD
		The primary objective of this project is to develop and launch a united civil society campaign against corporate abuse, in particular against those large multi-national corporations that are responsible for environmental destruction, wide-spread human suffering and pollution-related illnesses.
		The focus on Corporate Accountability is something that local South African communities have been calling for, for some time now.
		One of the outcomes of the week was a resolution on corporate accounability which was signed by 65 organisations.
	www.groundwork.org.za /Projects/wssd.htm (345 words)

	Friends of the Earth - Campaigns
		The Corporate Sunshine Working Group is an alliance of investors and public interest organizations working for better corporate disclosure of material environmental and social matters in financial reporting.
		BankTrack is an international network of NGOs working to advance sustainability and accountability in the financial services sector.
		Currently, the Guidelines are the only global corporate responsibility instrument that has been formally adopted by governments.
	www.foe.org /camps/intl/corpacct (153 words)

	ESCR-Net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Human rights abuses involving corporations continue to impact communities and workers throughout the world, whether indigenous communities devastated by mining operations, agricultural workers crippled by pesticides or inadequate wages, infants harmed by the false marketing of baby formula, or female garment workers subjected to sexual harassment and unsafe working conditions.
		We are particularly eager to circulate case studies of human rights violations involving corporations, as a basis for solidarity actions, for connecting groups working on similar issues, and for analyzing gaps in the protection of human rights as part of ongoing advocacy for international corporate accountability.
		The ESCR-Net Corporate Accountability Working Group submitted a Joint NGO Report to a UN Consultation on Human Rights and the Extractive Industry in Geneva, on 10-11 November 2005.
	www.escr-net.org /EngGeneral/corporate.asp (1525 words)

	Business and Human Rights: Amnesty International's Human Rights Concerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		AIUSA supports national and international legal instruments that promote greater corporate responsibility for human rights, including those that assure the risk of legal accountability if a company commits or is complicit in human rights abuses in their operations.
		Nigerian government to rigorously enforce its obligations to protect human rights is fuelling violations of civil and political as well as economic, social and cultural rights in the process of the oil exploration and production in the Niger Delta.
		Corporate and development interests are inflicting a devastating toll on human rights and the environment.
	www.amnestyusa.org /business/index.do (842 words)

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