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DYNCORP/CSC

CEO: Van Honeycutt
Contact the corporation: DynCorp/CSC
2100 East Grand Avenue
El Segundo, CA 90245 USA
Phone: 310.615.0311

Human rights abuses: causing health problems, environmental devastation and 
death; endangering lives; physically abusing individuals; sex trafficking

Private security contractors have become the fastest-growing sector of the 
global economy during the last decade­a $100-billion-a-year, nearly 
unregulated industry. DynCorp, one of the providers of these mercenary 
services, demonstrates the industry's power and potential to abuse human 
rights. While guarding Afghani statesmen and African oil fields, training 
Iraqi police forces, eradicating Colombian coca plants, and protecting 
business interests in hurricane-devastated New Orleans, these hired guns 
bolster the security of governments and organizations at the expense of 
many people's human rights.

DynCorp's fumigation of coca crops along the Colombian-Ecuadorian border 
led Ecuadorian peasants to sue DynCorp in 2001. Plaintiffs argued that 
DynCorp knew­or should have known­that the herbicides were highly toxic, 
and should therefore be held accountable for health problems and death 
among local people and widespread environmental damage to their subsistence 
agriculture. A Colombian newsweekly called DynCorp­which also sprays 
herbicides in Peru and Bolivia­"lawless Rambos."

DynCorp's questionable actions in Haiti include its training of the 
national police force after the first coup against President Aristide, 
paving the way for (Tonton Macaoutes) to return to power.

In 2001, a mechanic with DynCorp blew the whistle on DynCorp employees in 
Bosnia for rape and trading girls as young as 12 into sex slavery. 
According to a lawsuit filed by the mechanic, "employees and supervisors 
were engaging in perverse, illegal and inhumane behavior [and] were 
purchasing illegal weapons, women, [and] forged passports." The mechanic 
observed DynCorp employees buying and selling women and bragging about the 
ages and talents of their female slaves. DynCorp fired the whistleblower, 
who later claimed that "DynCorp is just as immoral and elite as possible, 
and any rule they can break they do." The company transferred the employees 
accused of sex trading out of the country, eventually firing some. None 
were prosecuted.

Who's working on it:
•<http://www.corpwatch.org/>CorpWatch
•<http://www.laborrights.org>International Labor Rights Fund and the Law 
Offices of Cristobal Bonifaz are handling the Ecuadorians' suit, with help 
from EarthRights International, Amazon Alliance, and Friends of the Earth.


da Global Exchange le peggiori multi del 2005 
http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html 
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