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Your support is helping spur deep, transformative change. Read more about what you made possible this year with Corporate Accountability.

Together with you, Corporate Accountability stops transnational corporations from devastating democracy, trampling human rights, and destroying our planet. Read about what you've accomplished this month.

Originally published on IPS News, by Shayda Naficy of Corporate Accountability and Ebuata Pholip Jakpor of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the ...

Over the past 50 years, corporations, trade associations and other entities representing corporate interests have invested increasing resources into influencing public policies to protect their bottom line, and have gained increasing legitimacy in policymaking spaces. But beneath a veneer of technical expertise, these trade associations represent the interests of their corporate members, even when they are at odds with the public interest: public health, human rights, and good governance itself.

People from around the globe are speaking up in support of an international treaty to rein in corporate power. Join the global day of action.

Executive Director Patti Lynn speaks to Corporate Accountability’s commitment to infusing international treaty negotiations with our radical imagination.

Fall 2019 field notes

Executive Director Patti Lynn speaks to Corporate Accountability’s commitment to infusing international treaty negotiations with our radical imagination.

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Read what you’ve made possible this spring, from sending a powerhouse team to organize at June’s U.N. climate treaty negotiations ...

For the fourth year in a row, you inducted Koch Industries into the Corporate Hall of Shame. Now, take action to demand the corporation stop funding junk science to spread doubt about the climate crisis.

Kelly Knight Craft hugging Donald Trump.

Trump's nominee for ambassador to the U.N. has deep ties to the coal industry. We deserve an ambassador who will represent people, not Big Polluters. Especially at the U.N., where there is real and urgent need to address the climate crisis. Take action!