The Berne Declaration is a Swiss non-governmental organization with 21,000 members. Through research, public education and advocacy work, it has promoted more equitable, sustainable and democratic North-South relations since 1968.
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Credit Suisse Credit Suisse was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. It provides companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients worldwide,… |
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UBS Modern UBS was formed through a merger of the Union Bank of Switzerland and the Swiss Bank Corporation in June 1998. UBS is headquartered in Zurich and Basel and it… |
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Canadian Tar Sands In the Canadian Boreal forest just downstream of the eastern foothills of the Rocky Mountains are the Canadian tar sands. The region contains some 2 trillion barrels of oil,… |
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Cluster Munitions producers Cluster munitions pose a serious threat to civilian populations during and after a conflict. Cluster munitions are designed to blanket a large area containing one or more… |
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Kusile Coal Power Plant The Kusile coal fired power plant project is located in the province of Mpumalanga, in South Africa. With 4800MW, it will be one of the largest power plants of its kind in… |
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Madagascar Tar Sands Located in the western Melaky region of Mahajanga pronvince are the two most developed tar sands projects of Magagascar, named Bemolanga and Tsimiroro. The size of both fields… |
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Mountain Top Removal Coal Mining Mountain top removal mining is a form of strip mining in which coal companies use explosives to blast as much as 800 to 1000 feet off the tops of mountains order to reach… |
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Phulbari coal mine The Phulbari coal project is a proposed open pit coal mine in northwest Bangladesh and includes the construction of at least one 500-MW power plant. At full production about… |
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Sakhalin II oil and gas project The Sakhalin II project in the Russian Far East is said by project sponsors to be the largest integrated oil and gas project in the world. The project involves… |
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Woodside Petroleum’s gas refinery The Browse Basin gas field off Western Australia's (WA's) north coast is estimated to contain 35 trillion cubic feet of gas. Woodside Petroleum Ltd and its joint venture… |
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Banks and human rights Berne Declaration website about UBS, Credit Suisse, and human rights |
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In 2011 European Decision makers can make banks sustainable Vision on sustainable banks |
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| Standing Rivers- trailer Apr 04, 2011 - "Standing Rivers" is a documentary by Markus Ochs, Johannes Gierlinger, Philipp Kleibel. As film students they collected footage and interviewed people in the affected region in 2010. |
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| Banking in the Shadows .. a Trip to Jersey Sep 07, 2009 - The British Channel Island of Jersey is a major European tax haven.
In March 2009, European activists visited Jersey to expose how tax havens affect the lives of ordinary people around the world. |
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| Tax havens and the financial crisis Oct 28, 2008 - Part 2 |
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| Tax havens and the financial crisis Oct 28, 2008 - Part 1 - Discussion including Andreas Missbach of Berne Declaration |


