CODEPINK, the US women's anti-war movement, has launched the 'Stolen Beauty' campaign targeting Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories for its involvement in the occupied territories.

Regular bi-weekly protests in London have resulted in the flagship Ahava store losing it's lease. A number of small independent stores have dropped Ahava from inventory – among them the gift shop at the National Cathedral in Washington D.C.and the U.N. Commissary in Vienna. In 2009, the organisation pressured Oxfam into suspending actress and Ahava spokes model Kristen Davis from publicity work as an Oxfam Goodwill Ambassador in 2009 for the duration of her contract with Ahava.

Ahava's labeling practices have been scrutinised by officials in England, the Netherlands, France, and most recently in South Africa, and more than 10,000 people have pledged to boycott the company. Read more about the Israel boycott here.

Air France is the only major airline that continues to ship monkeys to laboratories for experimentation. Primates transported by Air France are frequently taken from the wild and were transported on journeys that could last for more than 30 hours.

According to PETA, "Primates in laboratories were routinely mutilated, poisoned, deprived of food and water, forcibly immobilized in restraint devices, infected with painful and deadly diseases, and psychologically tormented...Primates suffer from the long and gruelling transport in the cargo holds of planes and in the backs of trucks."

In March 2020, the campaign group reissued the boycott call:

"Amid calls for increased experimentation on monkeys during the COVID-19 outbreak, PETA is once again telling Air France to stop flying them to laboratories for pointless and deadly studies.

"Transporting stressed and potentially immunocompromised monkeys, who are poor models of disease in humans, is dangerous and poses a serious public health risk. Experiments on them have failed to lead to cures and treatments for human diseases, and cutting-edge scientists are already conducting human vaccine trials for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus."

We have called a boycott of Amazon over its outrageous tax avoidance.

In 2020, we estimated that the UK lost £52 million to Amazon's tax avoidance in 2017. Nothing has changed significantly since. In 2019, Amazon’s key UK business paid just 3% more in tax compared to 2018, despite its pre-tax profits growing by more than 35%.

In April 2020, the government implemented a 2% “digital services tax” on UK sales of very large companies providing online marketplaces, as well as search engines and social media services. Amazon immediately announced that it would pass it on to the sellers on its site.

Read more about our Amazon boycott here.

The ‘Stop AXA Assistance to Israeli Apartheid’ coalition has called for a boycott of the insurance company over its links to Israeli banks involved in illegal settlements on Palestinian territories. AXA holds investments worth $7 million in three Israeli banks, which provide mortgage loans for settlers and financial services to settlements’ local authorities for building projects.

AXA, which is the second biggest insurance company worldwide, was found to have tripled total investments in the banks since 2019. All three banks are listed in the UN’s recently published database of companies that are complicit in Israel’s illegal settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

According to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, which backs the call, “Without these banks many of the illegal Israeli settlement projects would have difficulty being implemented.”

People & Planet are calling on institutions to divest from and consumers to boycott Barclays in the face of its fossil fuel funding. Barclays is the biggest funder of fossil fuels in Europe, providing over $118billion for fossil fuel projects between 2016-2019. Funded projects include the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Trans Mountain pipeline and the Cerrejón coal mine, all known for their serious violations of Indigenous rights. The campaign says:

it's time for them to halt their support for the fossil fuel industry before they drive us over the climate cliff.

In particular, student-led campaigns have called on universities to divest from the company, seeing widespread success. Sheffield, Bristol and Surrey University Students Unions, NUS and Young Labour are all amongst those to have voted in favour of boycotting Barclays.

Civil society has long highlighted the role of Brazilian agribusiness, particularly soya plantations and meat farms, in the destruction of the Brazilian Amazon and serious violations of Indigenous rights. In recent years, the industry has also be accused of legitimising and exploiting Bolsonaro's corrupt and genocidal governance.

Survival is demanding supermarkets stop buying from Brazillian agribusiness. It says:

Agribusiness giants in Brazil are stealing indigenous peoples’ land, poisoning them with pesticides, forcing them to live in makeshift camps with soaring rates of malnutrition, disease and suicide, burning down Brazil’s most biodiverse forests, and threatening to wipe out whole uncontacted tribes. The purchase of produce from these suppliers is fuelling Brazil’s genocide.

Brazil’s National Indigenous Mobilization (MNI) and Indigenous People Articulation have also called for international solidarity in condemning those companies involved and are being backed by Extinction Rebellion in the UK. Many of the major UK supermarkets, particularly Tesco, as well as Burger King, McDonald's and KFC have been criticised for their role.

Survival asks consumers to write to supermarkets demanding change here. Greenpeace asks consumers to sign a petition to Tesco here.

In December 2015, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Financial Times reported that Mondelez UK, the parent company of Quaker-founded, Birmingham based confectioners Cadbury, paid no corporation tax in 2014-15 in the UK, despite making profits in the country of £96.5m in that financial year. In 2017, the Daily Mail reported that Cadbury had not paid any corporation tax for the sixth successive year.

The Methodist Tax Justice Network is calling a boycott of the company: 

until we see evidence that Cadbury are paying tax commensurate with their sales in all countries in which they operate, we will refuse to buy from a company who avoid making their appropriate contributions to wider society.

The campaign also asks followers to write to the company, explaining why they are avoiding its products.

BDS has called for a boycott of 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. “Without selling a single bomb, gun or F16 fighter, Caterpillar has been supplying the Israeli military with its “key weapon”, in the words one Israeli commander", according to an article on the Electronic Intifada website.

D-9 bulldozers have been used to destroy “agricultural farms, greenhouses, ancient olive groves.. numerous Palestinian homes and sometimes human lives”, according to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

The boycott campaign has seen several major success, including the Church of England's decision to divest its £2.2 million holding in Caterpillar.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Coke has called for a boycott of the company, following claims that it had been involved in the murders of union leaders at its factories in South America, and in other instances of violence, intimidation and workers' rights abuses. 

Coca-Cola was accused of paying Colombian paramilitaries who murdered nine union members at its bottling plants. The campaign website also lists reports of the company ordering serious anti-union violence at Turkish and Guatemalan plants.

Boycotts of Coca-Cola have also been called over its involvement in Israeli appartheid. The #NotInMyFridge campaign from FAO states: "Central Bottling Company (CBC) is an Israeli manufacturer and distributor of soft drinks, dairy products and alcoholic beverages. Coca-Cola profits from the occupation by working with CBC which sells its drinks in Israel. CBC has a Coca-Cola factory in Atarot illegal Israeli settlement. Israeli settlements are built on land stolen from Palestinians and are illegal under international law. By having it’s Israeli franchise in illegal settlements, Coca-Cola ignores international law and profits from the illegal occupation."

PETA are calling on Channel 4 to stop airing Crufts. The BBC dropped the show after relevations about ill, inbred animals, and the RSPCA refuses to attend it. The culture of breeding has serious health implications for the dogs involved on the show. PETA claims:

With its obsession with "purity of breed", Crufts popularises grossly exaggerated features in animals and awards prizes to dogs whose physical abnormalities make it impossible for them to lead a happy life – pugs with pushed-in faces who can barely breathe, Cavalier King Charles spaniels whose brains are too big for their skulls and bulldogs who can't even mate without assistance, to name just a few examples.

The campaign says that this culture of breeding also have wider implication for canine welfare, pointing out that breeders may receive thousand of pounds for pedigree puppies with a low quality of life, while many healthy dogs remain in animal shelters. 

It is asking its supporters to contact Channel 4 and ask it to stop airing the show.

Dog4Us is a puppy warehouse located in Leeds and Manchester. Organisers based their campaign on information exposed by BBC Panorama, such a selling fake Pedigri pups and seriously ill dogs, buying from cruel puppy farms and selling untraceable dogs from unlicensed breeders.

The campaign points out that Dog4Us breaks government advice to never buy a puppy unless you see it with its mother. It asks its followers to adopt a puppy instead, from the many currently housed in animal shelters.

The boycott has held protests outside parliament calling for a ban on the sale of puppies in pet shops and other third-party dealers. It has gained backing from many politicians in both Manchester and Leeds.

Naturewatch Foundation launched a boycott call against Ecover in April 2018, over the brand's links to companies that test products on animals. In December 2017, Ecover and its sister company Method were purchased by SC Johnson, a US company that openly admits to testing on animals and owns other non Naturewatch-endorsed household cleaning brands such as Duck, Shout, Glade, Pledge and Windex.

Caroline Ruane, Naturewatch Foundation CEO, said:

It's hugely disappointing to compassionate shoppers when favourite brands compromise their cruelty free credentials by selling out to multinationals that continue to benefit from animal testing.

The boycott has since seen some success with Ecover and Method committing to use their influence to convince SC Johnson to go cruelty-free. However, SC Johnson is yet to do so, and Naturewatch Foundation is asking compassionate consumers to boycott all SC Johnson brands, including Ecover and Method, until the entire company is cruelty-free. Read more about the boycott.

CODEPINK, the US women's anti-war movement, is calling for a boycott of Everysight Raptor cycling glasses, over its owner Elbit System's supply of arms to the Israeli military.

The campaign says: "Through the Everysight Raptor, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems has brought its the technology of repression to the general public by selling augmented reality glasses to cyclists so they can ride their bicycle like a fighter jet pilot.

"Everysight, a new cycling technology brand, is 100% owned by Elbit Systems. It uses the very Elbit technology and hardware that is found in their fighter jets, which are instrumental in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people in Gaza and in constructing militarized borders around the globe. 

"Elbit Systems has been involved in all of the major Israeli assaults against the Palestinian people in Gaza, including the 2008-2009 assault which killed over 1,400 people, the 2011 assault which killed over 150 people, and the 2014 assault which killed over 2,000 people. In each of these bombing campaigns, the majority of those killed were civilians, including in 2014 when over 550 children were killed by Israel."

Stop Hate for Profit is calling on Facebook to stop the spread of racism, hate, violence and misinformation about voting across their platforms. Demands include taking down groups focused on white supremacy, militia, antisemitism, Islamophobia and violent conspiracies; removing misinformation related to voting that has been debunked by credible fact checkers; and prohibiting calls to violence by politicians in any format. The organisation says:

Facebook’s policies and enforcement on hate speech, incitement to violence, and misinformation are astonishingly weak, and disproportionately harm BIPOC and LGBTQ+ users.

In July 2020, the coalition - which includes thousands of businesses as well as civil society groups and nonprofits such as NAACP, Color of Change and Sleeping Giants - called on companies to pause advertisements on the site. Over 1100 companies joined the boycott. In response, Facebook has taken limited action, including beginning to address some of the most hateful movements using its site, publishing its civil rights audit and establishing a team to study algorithmic racial bias. However, the campaign says that the company "has failed to address our core demands meaningfully."

Some companies including Lego, Coca-Cola and HP have since continued to boycott the site.

CCTHITA (Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska) have called for a boycott of FedEx for as long as they continue to sponsor the Washington Redskins - which bears a racist name. The term “redskins” is derived from a horrific former practice of removing the skin of Native people for the purpose of collecting bounties.

Over 100 professional organizations representing civil rights, educational, athletic, and scientific experts have also recognised that the use of Native American names and / or symbols by sports teams promotes misunderstanding and perpetuates negative stereotypes.

In July 2020, FedEx was said to have written to Washington Redskins requesting that they change their name, after over 87 investment firms and shareholders worth a collective $620 billion sent letters asking Nike, FedEx, and PepsiCo to end their financial arrangements with the team.

PETA called for a boycott against Fortnum and Mason for selling foie gras. The luxury food is made from the liver of geese or ducks that have been specially fattened. This is done through force-feeding, using a feeding tube to give the bird corn. Ducks have to be force-fed twice and geese between three or four times a day. Their livers swell up to ten time their normal size, which means that they press against the birds' lungs, causing difficulty breathing.

In 2012, PETA UK did an undercover investigation into the Sarlat Perigord cooperative, from which Fortnum & Mason's distributor sources foie gras. It says:

These intelligent, gentle birds are condemned to spend the last weeks of their life in small, barren pens, where they are forced to stand 24 hours a day on metal grating as their urine and faeces build up underneath. The geese panic and struggle as they are roughly grabbed by the throat and a metal pipe is forced down their throats so that huge amounts of grain can be pumped into their stomachs.

The International Campaign for the Rohingya (IRC) has called for a boycott of Kirin Group over its links with the military in Myanmar (Burma). IRC says the company is “legitimizing the military and providing them with profits as they face accusations of genocide in the UN’s top court.”

Kirin Group is a Japanese conglomerate, specialising in food, drink and healthcare products. It operates a brewery company as a joint venture with the Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings, a company controlled by, and for the benefit of, the Burmese military, which carried out an ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya in 2017.

The Japanese multinational also admitted that its subsidiary made donations totalling USD $30,000 to the military and authorities during the ethnic cleansing. The first donation was made to the military’s Commander-in-Chief during a televised ceremony, in which he said it would be used in part to fund “security personnel and state service personnel”.

Seema Joshi, Head of Business and Human Rights at Amnesty International stated,

“It beggars belief that any international investor would make donations to Myanmar’s military, at a time when those very forces were carrying out ethnic cleansing.”

Kirin owns Fourpure Brewing Company in the UK, as well as a 24% stake in Brooklyn Breweries, owner of Brooklyn Lager. Its Kirin Ichiban beers are also sold in the UK.

The company appears on the Burma Campaign’s ‘Dirty List’, which names international corporations doing business with the military or involved in projects linked to human rights violations or environmental destruction in the country. Apple, Google, Facebook, Huawei and Toshiba also feature on the list.

Fox News faces a boycott call over its hate speech and fake news. TrueUSA is calling on all advertisers to boycott the news corporation, and consumers to boycott brands that continue advertising with it. It says:

We’re demanding integrity from the brands to which we give our money. Fox News has proven itself again and again, from birtherism to the vile Seth Rich smear to the demonizing of Black Lives Matter, to be the most powerful outlet for hate, fear, and propaganda in America.

TrueUSA asks consumers to pick four brands still advertising with the corporation, and send them a message letting them know, "If they sponsor Fox, we'll shop elsewhere." According to the campaign, advertisers include everyone from Subaru and Verizon, to Amazon and Booking.com. Find the full list here.

PETA are calling for a boycott of Hermès which sells luxury bags and belts using skin from reptiles. Alligators and crocodiles are factory farmed and brutally slaughtered for 'luxury' fashion. 

PETA investigated the conditions in which crocodiles and alligators were kept on leather farms, in Texas and Zimbabwe. It found that "Alligators are packed in dank pools and crocodiles are crowded in barren concrete pits for months or even years before finally being slaughtered for their skins." The animals are killed at a young age, often when they are just one, and using inhumane methods. They are often shot or cut into while still conscious and able to feel pain. 

"There is no justification for supporting such blatant cruelty." The campaign asks its supporters to contact Hermès demanding that it stop buying and selling crocodile and alligator skin accessories, and saying that it will be boycotting the company until them.

The BDS Movement has called for a boycott of both Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and HP Inc. HPE and HP Inc. have been two separate businesses since 2015, but BDS says "Both HP-branded corporations remain complicit in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism."

According to BDS, HPE "provides Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority with the exclusive Itanium servers for its Aviv System. This system enables the government to control and enforce its system of racial segregation and apartheid against Palestinian citizens of Israel, and is directly involved in Israel’s settler colonialism through its “Yesha database”, which compiles information on Israeli citizens in illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank." It also maintains the Israeli police's data centre.

HP previously developed the BASEL system, a biometric identification system for use at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, which controls Palestinian movement through a system of ID cards and biometric information. It also worked with the Israeli military, maintaining its IT infrastructure, while it imposed a naval blockade of the Gaza strip. BDS states:

For these and other past ties of complicity with Israel’s occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism, HP-branded companies must provide reparations to the Palestinian victims of these crimes.

Read more about the Israeli apartheid boycott here.

PETA is calling for a boycott of House of Fraser, after the chain's new owner, Sports Direct International, reversed the company's no-fur policy, despite the poor treatment of animals within the fur industry. The company was said to be selling fur from rabbits and raccoons.

Animals within the fur industry sometimes face lifelong confinement in cramped cages, and are often killed using inhumane methods. The campaign stated: "It's a colossal step backwards, as 95% of Brits refuse to wear real fur"

PETA is asking for consumers to write the the company and declare their intention to boycott the chain until the no-fur policy is reinstated. Write to the company here.

The BDS Movement has called for a boycott of both Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) and HP Inc. HPE and HP Inc. have been two separate businesses since 2015, but BDS says "Both HP-branded corporations remain complicit in Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism."

HP Inc is contracted as the exclusive provider of personal computers to the Israeli military, which BDS says it uses "within the context of ongoing war crimes and systematic oppression of the Palestinian people. HP has been supplying the Israeli military since 2009, with its most recent contract signed in 2014, extendable through 2019."

HP previously developed the BASEL system, a biometric identification system for use at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, which controls Palestinian movement through a system of ID cards and biometric information. It also worked with the Israeli military, maintaining its IT infrastructure, while it imposed a naval blockade of the Gaza strip. BDS states:

For these and other past ties of complicity with Israel’s occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism, HP-branded companies must provide reparations to the Palestinian victims of these crimes.

More than 1.7 million people have signed a petition calling on HP to end its role in Israeli apartheid, and several US churches have voted to divest. Read more about the Israeli apartheid Boycott here.

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign is calling for a boycott of HSBC over its funding of weapons and technology companies selling to the Israeli state. In July 2017, War on Want released a report which found that HSBC had provided £19.3 billion in loans to and held £832 million in shares for companies supplying Israel with arms.

In 2018, HSBC divested from Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest military company and supplier of drones to the Israeli state. However, as of 2020, the company continued to hold shares in Caterpillar, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon – all of which were linked by War on Want to the oppression of Palestine.

The companies supply everything from bulldozers used in the demolition of Palestinian homes (Caterpillar) to fighter jets and missiles previously used against civilians (Lockheed Martin). The campaign says:

HSBC must end its complicity in Israel’s gross violations of international law and Palestinian human rights by severing its relationship with companies that supply Israel with weapons and technology, like Caterpillar.

The BDS movement is led by Palestinian civil society, and based on the 2005 Call for “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights”, which was endorsed by more than 170 Palestinian civil society networks and groups. It follows  "decades of refusal to abide by UN resolutions, International Humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention." Businesses operating in illegal Israeli settlements in Palestine have also been targeted.

BDS describes itself as "a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity."

Israel is occupying and colonising Palestinian land, discriminating against Palestinian citizens of Israel and denying Palestinian refugees the right to return to their homes. Inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement, the BDS call urges action to pressure Israel to comply with international law.

The campaign has successfully persuaded governments, churches and banks to divest from companies involved in Israeli occupation, or which are operating in Israeli settlements in Palestine. It has also seen several targeted companies change their practices and break their ties with the Israeli government or relocate from settlements there. Read more about the Israeli apartheid boycott.

GMO-Free USA has called a boycott of Kellogg's over the company's use of GMOs. The organisation stated that it had tested two Kellogg's cereal products, both of which were found to contain GMOs and glyphosate, the active chemical ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. The campaign claims:

Kellogg’s actively fought against food transparency and contributed nearly $2 million to propaganda campaigns to defeat citizens’ ballot initiatives for mandatory GMO labeling in California, Washington, Oregon and Colorado.

The campaign says that Kellogg’s spent over $3.6 million lobbying the US government in 2013 and 2014 to fight mandatory GMO labelling, something which it says that over 90% of all Americans want. It says that the pesticides and herbicides that the company used "deplete the soil, harm earthworms and other beneficial non-target organisms, and put the Monarch butterfly, bees and other species in jeopardy."

The campaign is also targeting Kellogg's due to that fact that it 'heavily markets to children'. It asks its supporters to contact the company about its GMO ingredients and lobbying. Thousands of people have signed the petition.

Naturewatch Foundation has a long-standing boycott of L'Oréal 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.

In 2003, L'Oréal was also reported to be part of the European Federation for Cosmetics Ingredients, a coalition of 70 European cosmetics companies. The organisation launched a legal challenge in the European Courts against the EU's ban on animal testing for cosmetics. 

Naturewatch Foundation has organised protests and other actions against L'Oréal. In 2017, it lifted its boycott call against The Body Shop, a former subsidiary of L'Oréal, after the company was purchased by Natura. Natura responded to Naturewatch Foundation's calls for a rigorous and transparent animal testing policy and has now been endorsed as a cruelty-free brand. However, the campaign against L'Oréal continues.

The Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) have launched a Global Movement to Boycott Made in China, "to raise awareness about the atrocities committed by the Communist Party of China." The movement outlines four key reasons for the boycott call.

1. Human rights abuses: "When we buy good manufactured in Communist China, we are innocently contributing to a system that imprisons and oppresses anyone who speaks out".
2. Supporting China's military build up: "Every time a consumer buys a product that is 'Made in China' that money helps finance what is essentially the most rapid build up of an expansionist and aggressive totalitarian regime. In fact, thousands of factories and sweatshops are directly owned and operated by the CCP military."
3. Outbreak of Coronavirus: "China hid facts, destroyed evidence and thus deprived the international community of crucial information during the critical initial period."
4. Intrusion of Chinese troops onto Indian soil: in the Galwan Valley, which resulted in the killing of 20 Indian soldiers.

Tibetan civil society organisations have previously called for a boycott of products made in China in protest against the conditions in which some Chinese manufactured goods are made, "by the millions of prisoners in China's forced labour camps."

The Sea Lies campaign is calling for a boycott of all Merlin Entertainment brands due to their treatment of captive animals in their aquariums, which include: Alton Towers, Blackpool Tower, Chessington World of Adventures, Eye attractions (e.g. London Eye), Legoland, The Dungeons (e.g. London Dungeons), Madame Tussauds, SEA LIFE Aquariums, Thorpe Park, and Warwick Castle. The campaign is run by Freedom for Animals. 

In 2013, the Freedom for Animals (then known as Captive Animals' Protection Society) commissioned an investigation into the Sea Life chain of aquariums. The resulting report accused the company of taking animals from the wild to populate its aquariums, despite claiming that it would "never get any animal from the sea because we find it cruel". Sea Life was said to permit the killing of healthy animals because they were “surplus to requirements” or “too large to house” provided that it was first discussed by the company's Ethical Committee. The chain's parent company was also found to have purchased three other aquariums that housed dolphins or whales in confined conditions.

The campaign also raises wider animal welfare concerns and says that fish in the aquariums demonstrated stressed behaviours prompted by their lack of space. 

Naturewatch Foundation launched a boycott call against Method in April 2018, over the company's links to companies that test products on animals. In December 2017, Method and its sister company Ecover were purchased by SC Johnson, a US company that openly admits to testing on animals and owns other non Naturewatch-endorsed household cleaning brands such as Duck, Shout, Glade, Pledge and Windex.

Caroline Ruane, Naturewatch Foundation CEO, said:

It's hugely disappointing to compassionate shoppers when favourite brands compromise their cruelty free credentials by selling out to multinationals that continue to benefit from animal testing.

The boycott has since seen some success with Ecover and Method committing to use their influence to convince SC Johnson to go cruelty-free. However, SC Johnson is yet to do so, and Naturewatch Foundation is asking compassionate consumers to boycott all SC Johnson brands, including Ecover and Method, until the entire company is cruelty-free. Read more about the boycott.

Nestlé has been the subject of boycott calls around the world since the 1970s for its irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula. It is accused of "contributing to the unnecessary death and suffering of infants" through its aggressive marketing practices, which promote baby milk formula as a superior option to breastfeeding despite evidence to the contrary.

The use of formula has been linked to many issues: from increased prevalence of water-borne diseases, where parents do not have access to clean drinking water, to poverty and malnutrition, due to its high cost. As a result, the World Health Assembly has written a strict International Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes. However, reports show that Nestlé continues to violate the code. 

Nestlé also faces boycott calls from the non-profit The Council of Canadians and and indigenous rights organisation the Lakota People's Law Project over its extraction of scarce water sources. The organisations say that Nestlé continues "to pump millions of litres of water from watersheds" despite serious droughts in recent years, and "to act beyond the boundaries of ecological protection and basic human dignity."

A boycott of the NRA was called after the organisation called for teachers to be armed in schools following the killing of 17 pupils at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in February 2018.

The organisation also received criticism over its social media responses to the shooting. It posted "Stand and High for our Kids' Safety by Joining NRA" on its Facebook page on the day of widespread protests for gun control and aired a video on its NRATV Youtube Channel titled 'A March for Their Lies', addressing Parkland student campaigners about their involvement in the gun control marches. In March 2018, it launched a lawsuit challenging Florida’s newly enacted law which bans the purchase of firearms by anyone under 21.

The boycott call covers companies that do business with the NRA. It has seen huge success, with multiple brands include Delta Airlines, Chubb and Enterprise Rent–A–Car cutting ties.

The #BoycottPuma campaign was launched by Palestinian athletes in 2018 after 200 Palestinian sports clubs sent a letter to the company urging it to end its sponsorship of the Israel Football Association (IFA). The IFA includes teams based in illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian territories.

The UN’s special adviser on sport for development and peace, and several human rights organisations, have previously called on Fifa to ban the six settlement teams. BDS says that "Puma’s sponsorship brings international legitimacy to the IFA’s actions."

The campaign also highlights the abusive treatment of Palestinian footballers, who it says are routinely attacked, imprisoned and killed, and denied freedom of movement and the right to attend matches.

In July 2018, Adidas announced that it would no longer be sponsoring the IFA, following an international campaign and a petition of over 16,000 signatures. BDS calls on Puma to follow suit.

Sabra hummus brand is part-owned by The Strauss Group. The Strauss Group is Israel's second biggest food company and has been identified as a target of the BDS movement, which stated: "Sabra hummus is a joint venture between PepsiCo and the Strauss Group, an Israeli food company that provides financial support to the Israel Defense Forces."

The company was originally targetted over its support for two notorious Israeli military units, Golani and Givati. These brigades committed atrocities during Israel's 2009-10 deadly assault on Gaza. Their members were known to use horrific imagery on t-shirts, such as a pregnant Palestinian woman in a sniper's cross-hairs, with the slogan “one shot, two kills”.  The company previously claimed to have "adopted” the two platoons and provided the soldiers with food and personal care packages. 

Sabra hummus is sold by retailers in the UK including Sainsburys and Tesco. Sabra is also owned by PepsiCo, which manufactures Sabra products in the USA. Read our article on the Israel boycott here.

SodaStream faces a boycott call over its production facilities in the illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories. BDS says that the company's past and current factories are complicit in Israel's policy of displacing Palestinian and Bedouin-Palestinian communities. It has also previously been accused of mistreating and discriminating against its Palestinian employees.

In August 2018, the brand was purchased by PepsiCo. BDS renewed calls for a boycott of SodaStream, stating that its new factory continued to be actively complicit in the displacement of Bedouin-Palestinian citizens of Israel in the Naqab. The BDS National Committee told Ethical Consumer:

Far from reducing its direct contribution to human rights abuses, SodaStream’s factory in the Rahat area in the Naqab (Negev) amounts to conscious participation in Israel’s plans to ethnically cleanse tens of thousands of Bedouin Palestinian citizens of Israel from their ancestral lands.

The Israeli government has long-standing policies to force the Bedouin communities of the Naqab off of their traditional lands and into “authorised” townships. The 2011 Prawer Plan aimed to displace at least 40,000 people and, although it was officially put on hold in 2013, it seems that it will still be carried out in a modified form. Tens of thousands of Palestinians live in unrecognized villages in the Naqab and are denied basic services such as electricity, water and education. The boycott of the company continues. 

Grab Your Wallet has called a boycott of Trump and those companies that are supporting him over his regressive policies on climate change and his attitude to equality and discrimination issues.

In April 2020, Ethical Consumer looked at those supporting Trump, who had links to companies that were consumer facing in the UK.

UK brands with the clearest links to major Trump donors

1. Chevron (Texaco)

2. Blackstone (Ancestry.com, Bumble, Badoo, and 10% of Oatly)

3. Oracle computer software

4. Estee Lauder cosmetics (including Aveda, Bobbi Brown, Clinique, MAC)

Many other companies had some links. However, these were often found to be complicated, very opaque and were from individuals - sometimes opposed by the companies themselves.

In 2020, several companies were found to have severed ties with Trump. For example Les Wexner, ex-CEO of L Brands, which owns Victoria's Secret, and was previously a big donor, left the Republican party after Trump’s comments regarding the far-right protest in Charlottesville.

Grab Your Wallet has an up-to-date list of all companies and organisations to boycott.

In January 2016, 2,212 academics working in, or researching on, Turkey signed a declaration calling on the Turkish government to end the war in the Kurdish region. They demanded a peaceful resolution of the decades-long Kurdish question, and allow international observers to monitor the situation in Kurdish towns and cities destroyed by security forces.

Since then, the signatories, who came to be known as Academics for Peace, have been subjected to vindictive and punitive attacks from the government and the higher education establishment. They are calling for a targeted boycott of a number of academic institutions involved in these attacks.

The boycott was called after Wendy's refused to join the Fair Food Program (FFP). The campaign says:

For over seven years, hundreds of thousands of farmworkers with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and their consumer allies have demanded verifiable protections against sexual violence, forced labor and other human rights abuses in Wendy’s supply chain by joining the Presidential Medal-winning Fair Food Program.

The FFP is a social responsibility program that addresses decades-old farm labour abuses, faced by essential migrant workers. All Wendy's major competitors such as McDonalds, Burger King, Subway and Taco Bell have signed up. Those that sign up agree to purchase exclusively from suppliers meeting the code of conduct including a zero-tolerance policy for slavery and sexual harassment. The boycott has been backed by multiple individuals and organisations.

The campaign says that Wendy's has bowed to pressure from the national boycott, moving its tomato purchasing away from Mexico's abusive industry to greenhouse operations in the U.S. and Canada, but that "Wendy’s assurances that working conditions are fine in their greenhouse suppliers’ operations ring hollow when compared to the hard evidence of harsh conditions faced by workers in greenhouses".