The Coalition Against Biopiracy each year chooses a "winner" of the Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy. Furthermore it honors critics of biopiracy with the Cog Awards for Resisting Biopiracy. You can view nominations already submitted. Nominations will be approved before appearing on the site.

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The Centre for Science and Environment is one of India’s leading environmental NGOs. CSE provides advance warnings, perceptive analyses and intellectual leadership in the field of environmental management. CSE’s insists on respect for democracy, people’s participation, traditional knowledge and modern science.
Among other activities, CSE is researching on policies for sustainable industrialisation. The programme includes the Green Rating Project, a pioneering project to rate industries on their environmental performance.

Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) aims to improve working conditions in the garment and sportswear industry. The Clean Clothes Campaigns in each country are coalitions of consumer organisations, trade unions, human rights and women rights organisations, researchers, solidarity groups and activists.
The main demand of the Clean Clothes Campaign is that retailers live up to their responsibility to ensure that garments are produced in decent conditions. The CCC is a consumer campaign Thus the purchasing power of consumers is being mobilized on the issue of working conditions in the garment industry. The Clean Clothes Campaign also pursues legal possibilities for challenging the bad working conditions in the garment industry and works to develop links with organisations in countries where garments are produced.

The Coalition against BAYER-Dangers (CBG) assumes that multinationals are decisively responsible for ecological, social and political problems around the world.
CBG has been monitoring the chemical and pharmaceutical company Bayer since 1978; it also co-operates with partners in 30 countries and participates in campaigns to ensure environmental protection, social security and human rights.
If you want to receive our English newsletter Keycode Bayer regularly or if you have any information on possibly illicit actions by Bayer, contact CBGnetwork@aol.com. (Limited English version of the website.)

CI applies innovations in science, economics, policy and community participation to protect the Earth's richest regions of plant and animal diversity in the hotspots, major tropical wilderness areas and key marine ecosystems.
Conservation International and Ford Motor Company have created the Center for Environmental Leadership in Business. This program aims to engage the private sector worldwide in creating solutions to critical environmental problems.

Consumers International (CI) supports, links and represents consumer groups and agencies all over the world. It strives to promote a fairer society through defending the rights of all consumers, especially the poor, marginalised and disadvantaged, by supporting and strengthening member organisations and the consumer movement in general and campaigning at the international level for policies which respect consumer concerns.
Consumers International works to ensure that international trade agreements benefit consumers. The organisation represents consumers on many committees of the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
Promoting the ethical behaviour of transnational companies has been a central concern of Consumers International for many years. The Consumers International Consumer Charter for Global Business outlines what consumers expect from business in terms of ethics, competition, product standards, marketing, disclosure of information and labelling, and consumer redress.

Co-op America addresses social and environmental problems. It is the working to educate and empower people and businesses in the US to make significant improvements through the economic system.
Co-op America runs a Corporate Responsibility Program that encourages corporations to become socially and environmentally responsible; provides information about boycotts and shareholder resolutions against irresponsible companies.

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. Corporate Accountability International and its members have scored major victories that protect people and save lives. For over 25 years, CAI has forced corporations like Nestlé, General Electric and Philip Morris/Altria to stop abusive practices.

Transnational corporations increase their often already powerful influence on social and envi-ronmental development, working conditions, consumption and production patterns and policy on a global scale. We want transnational corporations, their subsidiaries and their suppliers to observe fundamental human rights and to adhere to internationally agreed upon social and environmental standards in their daily and global activities. In order to achieve this target, we intend
• to enhance the public debate on the economic and political activities of transnational corporations, and
• to advocate corporate accountability. By this, we mean binding instruments that com-pel these companies to respect human rights as well as internationally agreed upon social and environmental norms and standards.
Human rights organisations, trade unions, development organisations and church organisations, consumers' associations and environment associations as well as other civil society organisations centred on socio-political issues work together in the CorA Network.

The Corporate Accountability Project is run by the ACTION Center (Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking). The ACTION Center is an activist's collective in Philadelphia in which activists work as full-time volunteers on many of the projects listed on their website. Extensive archive and information on various business/TNC-related issues.

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
The organisation publishes studies and a regular Newsletter, Corporate Europe Observer, dealing with all relvant economic issues from GATS to corporate accountability.

The CORE Coalition believes that the 'voluntary approach' to Corporate Responsibility has failed. We believe the only way Corporate Responsibility will succeed is through new laws.
The CORE Coaltion is campaigning for new laws in 3 key areas:
Mandatory CSR Reporting:
CORE want companies to report against a comprehensive set of key social, environmental and economic performance indicators. With a standardised approach comes the ability to measure their operations and performance - here in the UK and abroad - and compare them with other businesses.
Directors' Duties:
CORE wants the legal requirement of directors' duties to be expanded. We want a specific duty of care for both communities and the environment. This will mean that a director will have to consider the consequences to communities, the environment, health and safety of their employees, and shareholders before making a decision.
Foreign Direct Liability:
CORE wants affected communities abroad to be protected under UK law and able to seek compensation, for any human rights or environmental abuses committed by UK companies or their overseas subsidaries. If affected communities are unable to claim compensation from UK companies in their own country, we want them to be able to claim here.

Corporate Watch provides news, analysis, research tools and action resources to respond to corporate activity around the globe. They also talk with people who are directly affected by corporate abuses as well as with others fighting for corporate accountability, human rights, social and environmental justice.
As part of the independent media, Corporate Watch is free of corporate sponsorship. The parent organization is the Transnational Resource and Action Center (TRAC), based in San Francisco.

The CorpWatch India project is undergoing transition and will be renamed the India Resource Center. India Resource Center works to support movements against corporate globalization in India. We provide timely information on transnational corporations to Indian movements. We also educate and mobilize key constituencies in the US and other countries to take action in support of campaigns in India.

Corporate Watch is a radical research and publishing group, based in Oxford, UK. It was set up in late 1996 to support activism against large corporations, particularly multinationals. As a radical group, we are reliant on support from individuals and groups who want to help further our aims. Support Corporate Watch. The magazine 'Corporate Watch' is published every 3 months, and presents a critical, though light-hearted, challenge to corporate dominance – combining sharp analysis with an ‘up yours!’- style irreverence. It has 3 main types of articles: Feature Stories – exposing corporate crimes; Analysis – helping activists to understand their ‘enemy’; Campaign Updates – keeping the activist (and potential activist) community informed of what other campaigners are doing, and hopefully inspiring more action.
Research: Corporate Watch also has a research division. Contact the research team. The research group investigates all aspects of the corporate world, for people and groups who are campaigning against corporations.
There are 3 types of work:
Paid, Professional Contract Research for ‘established’ campaign organisations / NGOs. Specific Radical Research Projects, which we choose to carry out, and set our own agenda and Unpaid Research Work, supporting grassroots campaigners.

The ‘Critical Shareholders‘ are not the ones who first ask how high their dividends are, but where they come from. They demand more environmental protection, more social justice, and the maintenance of human rights in the annual general meetings of shareholders in about 30 German corporations. (Limited English version of the website.)
Contact: dachverband@kritischeaktionaere.de

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