26 April 2006
Mr Steve Crawshaw
London Director
Human Rights Watch
2nd Floor, 2-12 Pentonville Road
London N1 9HF, UK
Tel: 44 20 7713 1995, Fax: 44 20 7713 1800
[email protected]
Dear Mr Crawshaw
The text in italics below is the heading and opening paragraphs of a letter I sent to Mr James Ross at Human Rights Watch on 7th February. I received no response.
THE PERSECUTION OF DR JOHN HUONG BY A MULTINATIONAL GIANT
I note that your organizations focus is understandably directed mainly towards evil regimes that resort to repression and torture. read more
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NEWS RELEASE
from ECCR – the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility – www.eccr.org.uk
ECCR URGES SHELL SHAREHOLDERS TO VOTE YES
TO RESPONSIBLE RESOLUTION
The Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR), the faith-based organisation that has initiated a resolution for Royal Dutch Shell shareholders to consider at their AGM in The Hague and London on 16 May, has replied today to the company’s published statement about the resolution by urging responsible shareholders to vote yes to the motion. read more
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Bush Takes Steps to Expand Oil Supplies
Deposits to Strategic Reserve Are Suspended, Rules on Ethanol Changeover Relaxed
By
JOHN D. MCKINNON,
JOHN FIALKA and
JEFFREY BALLApril 26, 2006; Page A4
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to curb soaring gasoline prices, President Bush announced he would suspend deposits to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve to boost consumer supplies and also seek to relax some antipollution rules.
The moves, combined with calls by Mr. Bush for an end to certain tax breaks for oil companies, reflect something of an about-face by the president and show the political risks for Republicans in the latest increases in gas prices. Those increases, which have pushed pump prices to more than $3 a gallon in some areas, come as voters' attitudes about the economy and pocketbook issues are beginning to take shape before the fall elections. read more
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Apr 26th, 2006
by John Donovan.

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Oil Minister Asserts Iran Won't Cut
Exports Despite Nuclear Standoff
By
BHUSHAN BAHREE,
CARLA ANNE ROBBINS and
CHIP CUMMINS Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNALApril 26, 2006; Page A1
With Iran facing a showdown with the West over its nuclear ambitions, its top oil official said yesterday that the country would not use its oil exports as a political weapon and that it already is struggling to meet its own domestic oil demand.
Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, said Iran has the capacity to disrupt world oil markets, but doesn't intend to do so. “The need of the world for energy is soaring, and if Iran is taken out of the equation, prices will shoot up and there will be big difficulties in the energy markets,” Mr. Vaziri said at a meeting of top officials from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and consuming nations in Doha, Qatar. read more
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Shell: Joint Venture Won’t Affect Jobs
© 2006 The Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela — Royal Dutch Shell PLC said Tuesday that recent state-imposed contract changes that brought a Venezuelan oil field it operates under government control will likely impact its share of earnings but is not expected to lead to job cuts.
Venezuela recently required Shell and other private companies operating 32 fields to convert their oil-pumping contracts into joint ventures majority-owned by state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA, or PDVSA. It seized two fields from companies that resisted the changes.
The new contract terms gave PDVSA a 60 percent stake in the Urdaneta West oil field and left Shell with the remaining 40 percent.
Sean Rooney, the head of Shell’s Venezuela operations, said the changes would not affect the overall revenues generated by the field but would impact the company’s share of profits. read more
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