Expanded Web Site for Concerned Consumers ‘Connects the Dots’ Between America’s Biggest Companies, Their Abuses and How to Create Real Corporate Responsibility.
WASHINGTON - Worried that your consumer dollars are rewarding bad corporations with problem practices? Concerned about greenwashing? Wish there was an easy way to get the dirt on America’s biggest companies before you buy […]

WASHINGTON - Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke on the House floor this morning to support H. Res. 1370, legislation calling on the Chinese government to immediately cease human rights abuses ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games. The resolution passed by an overwhelming vote of 419 to 1. Below are her remarks:
“I rise today in strong […]

The second Hope Ball was a huge success once again with the Yorkshire based Hope Trust committee raising more than £120,000 in aid of ovarian cancer research and treatment in one night alone. Together with last year’s fundraising the total raised by The Hope Trust in two years is £290,000.
Nearly 500 guests attended the […]

ORANGE, Calif., - One thousand hospital workers marched through the streets of Santa Ana and Orange on Saturday to ask the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange to allow them to vote to form a union without harassment and intimidation by supervisors.
Elected leaders spoke in support of the workers at a rally in front of […]

DALLAS, TX - The Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. today announced new partnerships with New York City and the States of Connecticut and South Carolina. These governments joined the Aidmatrix Network® – a national disaster relief coordination system funded by FEMA, UPS, Accenture, and Aidmatrix Foundation, Inc. to better manage unsolicited donations and volunteers. It connects State […]

LONDON - The newly released Maplecroft Climate Change Risk Report includes the first-ever climate change vulnerability index and a set of best-to-worst rankings for more than 168 countries worldwide. It identifies the world’s highest carbon dioxide (CO2) emitters as well as those countries most and least vulnerable to climate change. The report finds many of […]

NEW YORK - As the oldest legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing and defending the rights of women and girls, Legal Momentum stands with our allies who work every day with trafficking victims to support the Senate version of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act co-sponsored by Senators Joe Biden and Sam Brownback.
“The […]