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Corporate Accountability International (formerly INFACT) is a non-profit organization, founded in 1977. Their campaign headquarters are in Boston, Massachusetts and they have offices in Oakland, California, Seattle, Washington, and Bogotá, Colombia. Currently, their most prominent campaign is (Think Outside the Bottle ). == History == Since 1977 Corporate Accountability International has waged a number of high-profile campaigns to protect public health, the environment and democracy from abuse by transnational corporations. From 1977 to 1986 the Infant Formula Campaign and Nestlé Boycott brought about significant reforms in the life-threatening marketing of infant formula in developing countries. The work of Corporate Accountability International and allies contributed to the passage of the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes in 1981. From 1984 to 1993 the Nuclear Weaponmakers Campaign and General Electric (GE) Boycott helped push industry leader GE out of the nuclear weapons business and exposed the human and environmental costs of the corporation's nuclear weapons production and promotion.〔 〕 The international boycott of GE products cost the company over $19 million in lost medical equipment sales and $100 million in overall sales.〔Zheutlin, Peter (November 1990). "Doctors Join GE Boycott". ''Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists', p 8.〕 Major retail stores including Safeway and Target began stocking light bulbs made by other companies. In 1991, Corporate Accountability International commissioned the Academy Award winning documentary, "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment"〔 〕 that juxtaposed "GE's rosy 'We Bring Good Things To Life' commercials with the true stories of workers and neighbors whose lives have been devastated by the company's involvement in building and testing nuclear bombs." In 1993, GE caved under enormous public pressure and moved out of the nuclear weapons business.〔Interview with Kathyrn Mulvey (July/August 2001). "GE Can Be Beat". ''The Multinational Monitor'', http://www.multinationalmonitor.org/mm2001/01july-august/julyaug01interviewmulvey.html Retrieved 2009-12-31.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Corporate Accountability International」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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