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Global Tobacco Treaty Toolkit
This toolkit includes all you need to take action to help us build public pressure, such as submitting letters to the editor and writing to your senators to ask them to call on the Bush administration to submit the treaty to the Senate for consideration. Download the toolkit now to take action!
Global Tobacco Treaty Action Guide:
Challenging Tobacco Industry Interference - Second Edition
This Action Guide is a tool to help public health advocates, non-governmental organizations, government officials and concerned citizens stop the tobacco industry's attempts to use its money and influence to undermine ratification and implementation of the global tobacco treaty. It is a collection of first-hand stories about how tobacco transnationals, like British American Tobacco, Philip Morris/Altria and Japan Tobacco, are attempting to interfere with health policy and what government officials and NGOs are doing to expose and challenge this interference.
September 2006
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Report on Tobacco Industry Interference in Heath Policy and Measures in the Global Tobacco Treaty to Prevent it
The purpose of this document is to expose tobacco industry interference in countries that have ratified the FCTC, to highlight measures currently being taken to prevent this interference, and to call for coordinated action by Parties to safeguard treaty implementation against commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.
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Our Spring 2007 Newsletter
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Tap Water Challenge Organizing Kit
This toolkit includes all you need to organize your own Tap Water Challenge and get people in your community 'thinking outside the bottle'.
World Water Challenge Organizing Kit
This organizing kit includes all you need to host your own World Water Challenge, public education event to illustrate the growing corporate control of water, and how communities can challenge the privitzation of our water.
Wal-mart's Political Profits
Wal-Mart has parlayed its enormous economic power into nearly unrivaled political power, which the corporation uses to tip the rules toward its favor and further boost its profits. This report examines how Wal-Mart stacks up against several key Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations.
Corporate Accountability International's Standards of Political Conduct for Corporations
Corporate Accountability International created these standards as our vision and goals for how corporations should function in the political arena toward a safer, healthier, more democratic world. (en Español)
Comment on UN Human Rights Norms for Transnational Corporations
Giant corporations hurt and kill people around the world--and get away with it because they operate worldwide without limits to their power or strong, enforceable standards to protect people. Corporate Accountability International supports the ongoing effort to strengthen, effectively implement and monitor compliance with the UN Human Rights Norms for Transnational Corporations.
Fact Sheets on Tobacco:
Global Tobacco Treaty Fact Sheet
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Big Tobacco's Attempts to Derail the Global Tobacco Treaty: Cases from Battleground Countries.
The report discusses the current status of the global tobacco treaty (WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control) and the tobacco industry's recent attempts to undermine the treaty process. It provides a first look at the positive impacts of the treaty and the new ways Big Tobacco is trying to derail the treaty in the eleventh hour. The report names corporations like Philip Morris (now Altria), British American Tobacco (BAT), and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) among the corporations seeking to undermine the treaty.
October 2005
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Handbook for FCTC Ratification Campaigns
This handbook is a crucial guide for groups and organizations that are waging their own campaigns to get their governments to ratify the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Includes the history and precedents of the global tobacco treaty, tips for getting media coverage at events, sample press releases, and a sample survey on political activities of tobacco transnationals. Available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish.
November 2003
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Cowboy Diplomacy:
How the US Undermines International Environmental, Human Rights, Disarmament and Health Agreements
This report examines the United States' obstructionist role toward recent international agreements on health, the environment and human rights. Cowboy Diplomacy finds that the United States has increasingly isolated itself from the international community on issues of global humanitarian and environmental consequence. The report shows a troubling and dangerous pattern of behavior by the U.S. and its allies of protecting corporate interests over public interest.
February 2003
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Impact of Infact's Tobacco Industry Campaign and the Kraft Boycott, 1993-2003
In 1993, Infact (now Corporate Accountability International) launched the Tobacco Industry Campaign, targeting Philip Morris (now Altria) as the leader in spreading a preventable global epidemic. Over the past 10 years, Infact has involved millions of people worldwide in pressuring Philip Morris/Altria to stop promoting tobacco to youth with tactics like the Marlboro Man, and to stop interfering in public health policy. Just as Philip Morris feared in 1993, the Kraft Boycott has taken a toll on the tobacco giant. The effects of the Boycott can be measured through internal corporate documents, the corporation's image makeover, financial data and problems with employee recruitment and morale.
June 2003
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Treaty Trespassers
New Evidence of Escalating Tobacco Industry Activity to Derail the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. This report examines the presence of the three largest tobacco companies at the fifth round of FCTC negotiations (INB5) in October 2002. Treaty Trespassers uses evidence gathered from internal corporate documents, news reports, and by representatives of Corporate Accountability International and members of the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT).
February 2003
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Dirty Dealings
Big Tobacco's Lobbying, Payoffs, and Public Relations to Undermine National and Global Health Policy
This report illustrates how the tobacco industry is escalating activity to undermine tobacco control initiatives at the national and international levels. These examples underscore the importance of an international response to protect public health policy at the national and international level, including the FCTC.
2002
Power Politics
Why a Global Tobacco Treaty Should Protect Public Health Policy from Philip Morris
This report focuses on how Philip Morris (now Altria) and other tobacco transnationals have used their political influence to water down and/or defeat public health policy even in the wealthiest of countries. The tobacco corporations have also launched an international lobbying campaign targeting the FCTC.
2001
The Marlboro Man Goes Overseas
This op-ed piece exposes the irresponsible and dangerous actions of tobacco industry giant Philip Morris (now Altria) as it expanded in Asia, Russia, Central Europe and Latin America after facing huge liability settlements and public animosity towards Big Tobacco in the U.S.
November 2000
Challenging Corporate Influence in the 2000 US Elections
HCA: A Hall of Shame Success Story
The Hall of Shame has helped to change the public climate to recognize and reject the corrupting influence of corporate money in our democracy. According to a poll conducted for Corporate Accountability International, two-thirds of U.S. adults believe the political influence of giant corporations-such as the tobacco companies-weakens our democracy.
2000
Pulling Out All The Stops:
Philip Morris' Fight to Block FDA Regulation of Tobacco
Since FDA Commissioner David Kessler suggested in early 1994 that the agency might have "a legal basis on which to regulate [tobacco] products," the tobacco corporations--led by Philip Morris (now Altria)--have used every weapon in their arsenal to prevent strong federal tobacco control regulations.
March 21, 2000
Secrets & Lies: How Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco Responded to Infact's Tobacco Industry Boycott
This report demonstrates the strength of Corporate Accountability International's Tobacco Industry Campaign by examining the tobacco industry's own internal documents. This revealing look inside the corporate meeting rooms proves that people can wage successful campaigns challenging irresponsible and dangerous corporate actions.
April 1999
Global Aggression:
The Case for World Standards and Bold U.S. Action Challenging Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco
This report exposes the worldwide practices of the two largest US-based tobacco corporations. Using dozens of examples from around the world, a wealth of data, and personal accounts, Global Aggression documents Big Tobacco's abuse of power and double standards.
1998
The Human Toll of Corporate Influence
An exposé on corporations that manipulate public policy at the expense of public health, this report profiles five transnational corporations that undermine public policy designed to protect people: tobacco giants Philip Morris (now Altria) and RJR Nabisco (now Reynolds American Tobacco), polluters Dow Chemical and WMX Technologies (now Waste Management), and for-profit hospital titan Columbia/HCA (now HCA).
1997
Updates to The Human Toll of Corporate Influence
Dow: What Good Advertising Can Do
1998
Waste Management: Will Corporation by Same Name Play Same Dirty Game?
1998
Cosmetic Surgery at Columbia/HCA
1998
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