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"Profits real responsibility artificial", the campaign of Friends of the Earth International

Friends of the Earth are launching a public campaign on the theme of social responsibility and environmental responsibility (CSER), entitled "Profits real responsibility artificial encadrons responsibility Multinational . The campaign asks members to strengthen the legislation "Grenelle 2", which will be voted in the fall.

The financial crisis, economic, ecological and social that is currently shaking the world, considered as the worst since 1929, is an opportunity to take the responsibilities of actors in an economic system that shows serious structural failures. Yet while the leaders of major world powers put their hands in their pockets to avoid a collapse of the global economy and the taxpayers are heavily drawn on, the activities of multinationals are still very little framed.

multinationals (particularly financial) are yet largely responsible for the crisis, which pushed to the extreme system maximizing short term profits at the expense of social justice and the environment. They have not hesitated to make this massive pressure on governments, which largely deregulated the economy and global finance to the detriment of general interest and benefit of a minority of managers and shareholders. Multinationals are also responsible for many current disasters and preparedness, particularly in the South where they enjoy legal deficiencies in conducting local activities are sometimes very heavily on polluting and detrimental to local populations.

The legislation "Grenelle 2" will soon be discussed for a vote this fall, but its first version is very lax in terms of social responsibility and environmental responsibility, despite explicit promises of a resident of Republic in autumn 2007.

Friends of the Earth launch so this new campaign asking citizens to call their MPs to strengthen the legal obligations of multinationals on three points:

• achieve environmental and social responsibility of the parent companies on their foreign subsidiaries;
• strengthen reporting their social and environmental impacts;
• improve inclusion the views of citizens in the prevention of industrial risks.

Wasse To Gwen, Campaigner CSER Friends of the Earth: "The current economic crisis and ecological highlights of blatant abuse by some Multinational ultra-powerful in recent decades, to the detriment of the people of North and South of the planet. It's time that multinationals are framed by the law wherever they operate! .

A petition is posted on the website of Friends of the Earth, which can be signed and sent directly to members: www.amisdelaterre .org / petitionrsee