This company report has been prepared by SOMO (Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations). It provides an overview of business practices that could be regarded as unsustainable or irresponsible which occurred (or might have been addressed) in 2007. In addition, it describes developments on some of the issues identified in a similar overview for 2006.
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