This article appeared in print under the headline “Nowhere to run…”
29 April 2013 by Fred Pearce
- Book information
- Just Business: Multinational corporations and human rights by John Gerard Ruggie
- Published by: Norton
- Price: £14.99
EXTRACT
Other examples he discusses include the toxic solvents and child labour used to make fashionable Nike sportswear in the 1990s, and the 60-year battle of the impoverished Ogoni people in Nigeria against Royal Dutch Shell, whose shareholders made billions as the Ogoni forests were poisoned by oil.