The company in which the Church of England has its biggest shareholding is responsible for bringing impoverishment, conflict, human rights abuses and despair to the majority of the people in the oil-producing areas of the Niger Delta.
Britain’s largest retailer Tesco will today come under fire over 7p an hour garment workers in Bangladesh as shareholders prepare to hail the company’s record £3 billion profits at its annual meeting.
The Church of England has a major investment in an oil company which has given hundreds of thousands of pounds to lobby groups who have published 'misleading and inaccurate information' about climate change.
Campaigners have today launched legal action following investment by the Royal Bank of Scotland in projects linked to climate change and human rights violations, raising questions about why the Church of England is investing
The Easter Sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury about leading by example (particularly in the economic downturn) reminded me of someone I met last weekend whilst doing the BBC 1’s Big Questions in Canterbury.
Representatives of communities in Colombia, West Papua and the USA are in London to challenge the claims of two of Britain’s biggest mining companies that their operations are sustainable and fair.
The Catholic Church in the Philippines is having significant success in its campaign against mining as the Church of England seeks to profit from the companies who operate there.
The Church of England announced yesterday it had withdrawn its investments in a controversial company as theologians and priests intended to publish a letter denouncing the Church's investment.