British Petroleum's Black Plague

Just because the United States is a rich country, we have completely ignored the devastation that British Petroleum has caused world-wide.

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In 2006, the British Parliament is examined changes to company law in what
some commentators have optimistically billed as potentially the largest shakeup
in business law for 150 years. Rather, the process is continuing to protect
corporations from serious accountability for their activities, especially where
their impact is harshest - on poor people overseas. The evidence of British
companies’ role in the abuse of human rights overseas is legion and this has
strongly continued, in fact deepened, under New Labour. Many of the largest
and best-known British companies are:
- complicit in human rights violations
- forcing people off their land, with little or no compensation
- paying workers a pittance in wages
- causing illnesses among labourers working with pesticides
- polluting water sources used for drinking and agriculture

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