The companies that are supporting this lawsuit risk losing not only the confidence of investors and the consuming public, but also fighting a battle against a fast-evolving and increasingly coordinated movement to push broader disclosure, to bring enhanced transparency to corporate practices and decision-making and to ultimately make companies practice corporate social responsibility throughout their operations and decision-making.

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"The cease-fire enabled us to conduct disease surveillance with the freedom of movement, not fearing land mines and getting shot, " said Dr. Nabil Azziz, who coordinated Sudan's national Guinea worm eradication program until 2007.

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