We report on all the boycotts we receive which have a registered headquarters. Inclusion in the list does not constitute an endorsement.
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3 Mobile
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma.
Contact Burma
Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Aeroplanes
Aviation is the fastest-growing source of climate change causing
greenhouse gas emissions.
Contact Flight
Pledge Union or send an email
Adidas
for using kangaroo skin to make some types of football boots.
Contact Viva
tel 0117 944 1000
Altria
(previously Philip Morris)
for giving the fifth largest donations to the Republican party in
the period 2002-2006
See Boycott
Bush campaign
Ethical Consumer
magazine (issue 108, September/October 2007) has also called for
a boycoptt of Altria becuase it has funded groups which claim that global
warming is a "myth" or “uneconomic” to address.
Asda
and Wal-Mart
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican
Party. See BoycottBush
for more information.
Bacardi
for continuing to use its Cuban origins in its marketing despite being
active in anti-Cuba lobby groups in the US.
Contact: Rock around
the Blockade on 020 7837 1688
Buy instead: Rum
buyers' guide available online to Ethiscore subscribers. The report
can also be found in issue
87 of the magazine, price £3.50.
Barclays
CorporateWatch
has called for a boycott of Barclays due to its financing of the Narmada
Dam in India (and the Trans Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline). The Narmada
dam (or rather a series of 30 large dams) would flood one of India's
most productive agricultural regions and forcibly displace two million
people.
Buy instead: Bank
buyers' guide available online to Ethiscore subscribers.
Body Shop
Since L'Oreal (26% owned by Nestlé) bought out the Body Shop
earlier in the year, campaigns have brought together concerns about
animal testing, relations with the Majority World, human rights, discrimination
in the UK and the environment.
Contact: Boycott
Body Shop or 01452 539 916
Naturewatch
(01242 252 871) have a long-standing boycott of L'Oreal due to animal
testing, and have extended this to cover the Body Shop.
Botswana
for forcing the Gana and Bwi Bushmen out of their land in the Central
Kalahari Game Reserve
Contact: Survival
International on 020 7687 8700
British
Heart Foundation
for conducting animal testing in order to find out about a human condition.
Buy instead: The boycott is called by PETA
whose British
Heartless Foundation website contains a list of health charities
which do not test on animals.
Contact: PETA
on 020 7357 9229
Burma
is ruled by one of the world's most brutal regimes and has used forced
labour to prepare the country for tourism.
Burma Campaign UK has a list of companies operating in Burma.
Contact: Burma
Campaign UK, 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT,
Tel: 020 7324 4710 or email
Bush and the Republican party
Take a look at our Boycott
Bush site for the main corporate donors to the Republican party.
Buy instead: see the Brand
List on the Boycott Bush website.
Canada
for the government-subsidised slaughter of nearly one million seals
over the last three years. Campaigners are also calling for a boycott
of Canadian fish and seafood, as exports to the UK earn five times more
for Canada than the landed seal hunt in Newfoundland.
Contact: Respect for Animals www.boycott-canada.com
0115 952 5440
Humane Society of the USA www.hsus.org/ace/19076
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) www.ifaw.org
020 7587 6700
Caterpillar
for selling bulldozers to Israel in full knowledge that they will be
armoured and used to destroy Palestinian homes, infrastructure and agriculture
in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These abuses are detailed in
War on Want's alternative
company report on Caterpillar.
Contact: War
on Want, Fenner Brockway House, 37-39 Great Guildford Street
London SE1 OES
Tel: 0845 193 1952
ChevronTexaco
for dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon
and failing to clean it up.
Contact: www.chevrontoxico.com
China
for its continued human rights abuses and for its occupation of Tibet
Contact: Boycottmadeinchina,
email usa@boycottmadeinchina.org
Coca-Cola
for its repression of trade union activity in Colombia and its depletion
of groundwater resources in India.
Contact: Colombia
Solidarity Campaign, UK arm of campaign on 07743 743041 or email.
Websites: Colombia's Food and Drink Workers' Union SinalTrainal,
who called the boycott on 22nd July 2003, Killer
Coke, and Coke
Watch
In India, Coca Cola has caused severe water shortages, polluted groundwater
and soil around its bottling plant, distributed its toxic waste as "fertiliser"
to local farmers and sold drinks with extremely high levels of pesticides.
Website: India
Resource Centre
Colgate-Palmolive
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on
animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods
and their ingredients.
Website: BUAV on
0207 700 4888
Daewoo International Corporation
for involvement in the development of gas projects off the coast of
Arakan State in Western Burma. Contact SCHWE
Gas Movement
De Beers
for supporting the Botswanan government’s efforts to forcibly remove
Bushmen from their ancestral lands to resettlement camps.
Contact Survival
International on 020 7687 8700
Dolce &
Gabbana
for using a chimpanzee in an advert.
Contact: Animal
Defenders International on 020 8846 9777.
Donna
Karan
to hold the clothing company accountable for sweatshop conditions in
its suppliers' factories. The Ain't
I A Woman campaign is sponsored by National
Mobilisation Against Sweatshops and the
Chinese Staff and Workers Association.
Enterprise Rent-a-Car
for firing workers seeking to unionise at its boston airport facility.
For updates see the
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers website.
Esso
for doing more than any other company to sabotage international action
on climate change, and for being a top donor to George W. Bush. Find
out why you should Boycott
Bush or contact Greenpeace at 020 7865 8100.
Website: www.stopesso.com
Gecko's
Adventures
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies offering tours to
Burma. Contact Burma
Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Iams (owned
by Procter & Gamble)
for unnecessary animal testing. It is estimated Procter & Gambles
is responsible for the deaths of 50,000 animals each year.
Contact: Uncaged
Campaigns, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG tel: 0114 272 2220, info@uncaged.co.uk
See also Procter & Gamble.
Israel
following 'decades of refusal to abide by UN resolutions, International
Humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.' Click
here to find out more about the boycott of Israeli products.
Film-makers, musicians, performers and academics have also added their
voices, and are calling on their colleagues not to visit, exhibit or
perform in Israel.
Websites: Boycott
Israeli Goods or Palestine
Solidarity Campaign, Box BM PSA, London WC1N 3XX tel: 020 7700
6192. See the Palestinian
Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the
British Committee
for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) for information on cultural
boycotts. BRICUP can be contacted on 0207 712 1709 and info@bricup.org.uk
Japan
due to whale hunting for "scientific" reasons in a protected whale
sactuary around Antartica. This year, Japan may also start hunting endangered
humpback whales. See Boycott
Japan for more information.
The International
Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on 020 7587 6708 is also campaigning
for the conservation and protection of whales and co-ordinates letter
writing campaigns to the Icelandic, Norwegion and Japanese governments.
Joseph Ltd
for selling coats and other products made from animal fur.for selling
boots made from rabbit fur. Contact the Campaign
Against the Fur Trade Tel: 0845 330 7955
Junckers
due to selling Indonesian merbau flooring despite confirming
that it is of unknown source. Without guarantees of the wood's origin,
it's likely that merbau wood flooring could have come from Indonesia's
last remaining rainforests.
Contact Environmental
Investigation Agency for more information or ring 020 7324 4710.
Kahrs
due to selling Indonesian merbau flooring despite confirming
that it is of unknown source. Without guarantees of the wood's origin,
it's likely that merbau wood flooring could have come from Indonesia's
last remaining rainforests.
Contact Environmental
Investigation Agency for more information or ring 020 7324 4710.
Kimberly-Clark
for destroying ancient forest in North America for tissue brands such
as Kleenex and Andrex. Greenpeace's Kleercut website has
templates for contacting Kimberley-Clark.
Kurt Geiger
for selling boots made from rabbit fur. Contact the Campaign
Against the Fur Trade Tel: 0845 330 7955
Let's
Go
for being on the Free Burma UK's list of companies publishing
travel guide books with information on travel in Burma. Strong evidence
exists that tourist facilities, roads and other constructino programmes
in Burma have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact Burma
Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710.
Liberty
Apparel
to hold the clothing company accountable for sweatshop conditions in
its suppliers' factories. The Ain't
I A Woman campaign is sponsored by National
Mobilisation Against Sweatshops and the
Chinese Staff and Workers Association.
Lonely
Planet Guides
for being on the Free Burma UK's list of companies publishing travel
guide books with information on travel in Burma. Strong evidence exists
that tourist facilities, roads and other constructino programmes in
Burma have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact Burma
Campaign UK for a full list (tel: 020 7324 4710)
or Tourism
Concern on 020 7753 3330 or email
info@tourismconcern.org.uk
L'Oreal
Naturewatch has a long-standing
boycott of L'Oreal due to its continued use of animal testing for cosmetics.
The French multinational uses ingredients that have been tested on animals,
despite public statements to the contrary. It has also been criticised
for lobbying against an EU ban on animal testing for cosmetics.
Contact: Naturewatch
on 01242 252 871
Lucozade (owned
by GlaxoSmithKline)
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican
Party. See BoycottBush
for more information.
MBNA
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican
Party. See BoycottBush
for more information.
Microsoft
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican
Party. See BoycottBush
for more information.
Nestlé
for its irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula which infringes
the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
Contact: Baby
Milk Action, 23 St Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AX, 01223 464420
Nouvelle
recycled toilet paper
Boycott called by Ethical Consumer magazine, issue 108 (September/October
2007). Brand owners Koch
Industries, also makes toilet tissue from virgin forests, was the
main US importer of wood from Indonesia and came bottom in a recent
World Wildlife Fund comparison of toilet tissue companies. It has also
been part of a team advising George Bush on “conservative environmentalism,”
or in short, deregulation.
See toilet roll report in issue 107 for alternatives.
Pakistan
International Airlines
The International
Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have launched a consumer boycott
of PIA, acting on behalf of eight trade unions to pressurise the Pakistani
government to stop the victimisation of aviation workers. For more
information contact ITF +44(0)20 7940 9260.
Peugeot
for moving production from the UK to France and low-wage Slovakia. Contact
Amicus and T&G
unions for more information or ring 020 7611 2500
Procter and Gamble
for its continued use of animal testing for cosmetics, household products
and pet food. Brands made by P&G include Always, Ariel, Bold, Camay,
Clearasil, Crest, Daz, Dreft, Fairy, Flash, Head and Shoulders, Insignia,
Milton, Napisan, Oil of Ulay, Old Spice, Pampers, Sinex, Tide, Viakal,
Vidal Sassoon, Vortex and Zest. For further details see the
Boycott P&G website.
Contact: BUAV,
16a Crane Grove, London N7 8LB (0207 700 4888)
and: Uncaged
Campaign, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG
tel: 0114 272 2220, info@uncaged.co.uk
Reckitt
Benckiser
as part of a boycott of products of companies which still test household
goods and their ingredients on animals.
Contact: BUAV on
0207 700 4888
SABMiller
Altria (formerly Philip Morris) has a substantial shareholding in SABMiller,
which also owns Appletiser, Peroni Nastro Azzuro and Pilsner Urquell.
See above for details of the Altria boycott
For alternative mainstream beer brands, Ethical Consumer magazine gives
the best scores to Budvar (13.5) and Grolsch (12.5).
SC
Johnson
as part of a boycott of products of companies which still test household
goods and their ingredients on animals.
Contact: BUAV on
0207 700 4888
Shell
until the peoples of the Ogoni region in Nigeria receive a fair share
of profits from oil extraction, and are able to live in better environmental
conditions.
Contact: MOSOP-UK (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People),
Suite 3-4, Albion Place, Galena Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 0LT, 020
8563 8614
Starbucks
because for every cup of coffee that it sells, farmers in coffee-growing
countries such as Ethiopia earn about 2p. It has also been accused by
the Industrial
Workers of the World union of 'retaliatory firing' of four union
organisers in the US
Contact US Organic
Consumer's Association for information on the campaign for fairer
terms for Ethiopian coffee farmers. More information on how to support
the union can be found on by visiting the National
Lawyers Guild website or telephoning (001) 212 679 5100.
Singapore
Airlines
in protest against threats of government repression during the World
Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meeting. The Singapore
Government had issued a warning that it was prepared to cane or imprison
protestors who committed "violent crimes" during the meeting
meetings, but Friends
of the Earth International argued that it was very difficult to
identify violent offenders in crowds.
Superdrug
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma.
The connection is via Superdrug's parent company Cheung Kong Holdings.
Contact Burma
Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Suzuki
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments
in Burma.
Contact Burma
Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Tarkett
due to refusing to provide evidence to prove the legal source of their merbau flooring.
Without guarantees of the wood’s origin, it’s likely that merbau wood flooring could
have come from Indonesia’s last remaining rainforests.
Contact Environmental
Investigation Agency for more information or ring 020 7324 4710.
Tesco
due to its escalating use of Radio Frequency identification. The tiny
computer chips embedded in products or packaging allow monitoring of
items which consumers normally consider private, like clothing, wallets
and backpacks. Contact CASPIAN
(Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)
also due to the sale of live turtles, tortoises and frogs in their Chinese
stores. China currently has no animal welfare laws. Contact Care
for the Wild International Tel. 01306 627900
Unilever
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on
animals. The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household products
and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on
0207 700 4888
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