CorpWatch (formerly: TRAC Transnational Resource & Action Center) is a research group based in Oakland, California, USA. Oakland (ˈoʊklənd founded in 1852 is the eighth-largest city in the U California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The group works to foster global justice, independent media activism and democratic control over corporations. Global justice is an issue in Political philosophy arising from the concern that "we do not live in a just world Media Transparency is the concept of determining how and why Information is conveyed through various means The group is notable for its campaigns against Nike sweatshops, private military contractors, war and disaster profiteering, the World Trade Organization, and the United Nations Global Compact. Nike Inc ('naɪki ( is a major publicly traded sportswear and equipment supplier based in the United States. A sweatshop is a working environment with very difficult or dangerous conditions usually where the workers have few rights or ways to address their situation A private military company ( PMC) provides specialized expertise or services of a military nature sometimes called or classified as Mercenary ("soldiers for hire" The United Nations Global Compact, also known as Compact or UNGC, is an United Nations initiative to encourage businesses worldwide to adopt sustainable CorpWatch gained notoriety when it broke the story of the Nike sweatshop scandal in Vietnam by releasing a confidential audit.
Recent Projects
- Crocodyl: Pratap Chatterjee, author of Iraq Inc, Program Director and Managing Editor [1] started a project called Crocodyl, with Phil Mattera of the Corporate Research Project, Charlie Cray of the Center for Corporate Policy and Tonya Hennessey of CorpWatch. Pratap Chatterjee (b Birmingham, United Kingdom) is an Indian / Sri Lankan investigative journalist and progressive author The project aims to research corporations using wiki technology and global South/North collaboration and is built on an open content model; all contributions are licensed under Creative Commons Share Alike and also under the GNU Free Documentation License. Open content, a Neologism coined by analogy with " Open source " describes any kind of Creative work published in a format that explicitly allows Creative Commons (CC is a Non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share The GNU Free Documentation License ( GNU FDL or simply GFDL) is a Copyleft License for free documentation designed by the Free Software The Project Manager of Crocodyl is Ian Elwood, and it's Editors are Phil Mattera, Charlie Cray, Tonya Hennessey and Pratap Chatterjee.
External links
- CorpWatch.Org (official)
- CorpWatchIndia.Org (official)
- Crocodyl.Org (official)
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