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Rio+10, Environment Zero
PR Watch article describing how corporations have successfully managed to wreck the Earth Summit before it has even occurred.
http://www.prwatch.org/prwissues/2002Q3/rio.html

Exporting Enron Environmentalism
Article by Victor Menotti, from the International Forum on Globalisation, on US attempts to incapacitate the United Nations as an institution which could meaningfully address the twin crises of global poverty and ecological decline.
http://www.ifg.org/wssd/eee.htm

UNICEF in McDonalds link row
The UN's children's health and welfare agency, UNICEF, is at the centre of a row over its endorsement of the McDonalds World Children's Day event. Public health specialists across the world have criticised the agency’s involvement with McDonalds, arguing that the partnership could damage the credibility of its work on child health, nutrition and education, particularly in the developing world.
http://society.guardian.co.uk/publichealth/story/0,11098,768405,00.html

UK firms face race lawsuit
British firms including banks Standard Chartered and NatWest, and defence company Vickers, are to face a multibillion-pound lawsuit claiming that they profited from collaborating with apartheid-era South Africa.
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,776200,00.html

Turning off the tap for the poor
Article by Nick Mathiason on the rising tide of anger in South Africa as basic commodities such as water are privatised and prices skyrocket
http://www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,776214,00.html