Campaign News
February 11, 2008 - Global Tobacco Treaty Parties Meet to
Tackle Tobacco Smuggling
The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) began negotiations on February 11 toward a protocol to combat the illicit tobacco trade. According to the Framework Convention Alliance, the illicit trade represents approximately 10 percent of global tobacco sales, and costs governments between U.S. $40 and $50 billion annually in lost revenue.
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January 30, 2008 - Philip Morris/Altria Breaks Apart
The world’s largest and most profitable transnational announced the timing of its split into the Swiss-based Philip Morris International and U.S.-based Altria (parent corporation to Philip Morris USA). In simple terms, the split appears to be a mixed bag for the movement to curb the world’s greatest preventable epidemic.
Read the press release.
Read the factsheet - English.
Read the Factsheet - Spanish.
Read the Factsheet - French.
May 31, 2007 - World No Tobacco Day Calls for Protection from Tobacco Smoke
Advocates Urge Governments to Resist Industry Interference in Global Tobacco Treaty. Read More
April 26, 2007 - Activists From Across Globe Confront Philip Morris/Altria Executives at Annual Shareholders' Meeting
 As Philip Morris/Altria executives try to paint a picture of a rosy future at the corporation’s annual shareholders’ meeting, the worldwide challenge to the corporation’s abuses continues to build. Nurses, students and corporate accountability advocates from across the U.S. and from as far as Indonesia gathered on April 26, 2007 in East Hanover, NJ to challenge the top decisiomakers of the world’s largest tobacco corporation to stop their abuses around the world. Yul Francisco Dorado (second from right), Corporate Accountability International Latin America Coordinator, brought stories and photos from Colombia, a country targeted by the corporation as an “expansion market” with the recent purchase of the country’s largest tobacco corporation, Coltobaco.
Read the statement read by Corporate Accountability International Executive Director Kathryn Mulvey
Read the statement read by Corporate Accountability International Latin America Coordinator Yul Francisco Dorado - English
Read the statement read by Corporate Accountability International Latin America Coordinator Yul Francisco Dorado - Spanish
Read the statement read by Corporate Accountability International Organizer Sherri Racine
Click here to read the press release
April 2007 - Prestigious medical journal highlights impact of global tobacco treaty.
Click here to read the article from the New England Journal of Medicine
February 2007 - Brazil Public hearing on agricultural diversification and alternative crops to tobacco for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
Brazil Public hearing on agricultural diversification and alternative crops to tobacco for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC)
Corporate Accountability International had an exciting opportunity to challenge the tobacco industry at the public hearing on alternative crops to tobacco held in Brazil. We delivered hard-hitting testimony highlighting how tobacco corporations have supported and sustained a tobacco production system that has undermined human health and stifled human development. Following the public hearing, we participated in a Study Group meeting and supported governments, like Brazil, which as the second largest producer of tobacco faces tremendous interference from the tobacco industry.
Read the Corporate Accountability International statement to WHO Public Hearing
September 25, 2006 - International Week of Resistance
This week, activists in more than 20 countries led grassroots and media events and released the Global Tobacco Treaty Action Guide as a part of the 8th International Week of Resistance to Tobacco Transnationals. Click here to get the Action Guide and learn more.
April 27, 2006 - Philip Morris/Altria Annual Shareholders' Meeting
 On April 27th, we joined with our allies and sent a clear message to Philip Morris/Altria's top decisionmakers that there is growing resistance to the corporation's abusive practices and its interference in public health policy. For the first time at an annual meeting, policymakers from Latin America and Africa addressed the corporation's executives about the tobacco giant's interference with the implementation of the global tobacco treaty and called for an end to Philip Morris/Altria's abuses.
A week before the meeting more than 1,000 people from all over the world sent messages to the corporation with a resounding call that the tobacco industry should play no role in shaping health policy! More than 125 countries have ratified the global tobacco treaty, signaling that it is no longer business as usual for Big Tobacco.
Click here to read statements delivered by our team at this year's Philip Morris/Altria Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
Click here to read our press release issued to the media directly after the Philip Morris/Altria Annual Shareholders' Meeting.
February 2006 - The First Conference of the Parties
Since the global tobacco treaty became international law in February 2005, well over 100 countries have ratified, making it one of the most quickly embraced treaties in the history of the UN. This February marks another important milestone for this groundbreaking treaty, the first Conference of the Parties (COP), where critical decisions will be made about the treaty's implementation and enforcement.
Corporate Accountability International, along with members of the Network for Accountability of Tobacco Transnationals (NATT) will be in Geneva, Switzerland in February to ensure strong implementation and enforcement of the global tobacco treaty by calling for:
A strong secretariat that is accountable to the Conference of the Parties
- Full and equitable funding to support the treaty
- Ensuring public interest NGO access to the Conference of the Parties
- Explicitly excluding the tobacco industry and its affiliates from interfering in the global tobacco treaty
Decisions about the COP secretariat are central to the future of the global tobacco treaty and the precedents it sets for other international and corporate accountability agreements. Corporate Accountability International and our allies will be monitoring the situation closely, ensuring strong enforcement policy while exposing the tobacco industry's attempts to undermine treaty ratification and implementation around the globe. The course for the first COP will help determine if this treaty lives up to its promise as it is implemented around the world.
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