This is a list of current boycotts, focusing on those affecting consumers in the UK. Ethical Consumer would like to stress that inclusion in this list does not constitute an endorsement of a particular boycott. Where possible this site contains direct links to the companies in question to make registering your disapproval even easier.
Take a look at our Boycott Bush site.

New additions as of August 2001 include Iams, Aquababies and Dior.

Airlines
for transporting monkeys for research. Although a number of airlines have made concessions, some still transport primates, including Air France, Air India, Continental, Delta, Lufthansa, Sabena, El Al. 
Contact: British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, 16a Crane Grove, London, 0207 700 4888

American Home Products
for its cruel use of horses in producing the HRT drug Premarin and Prempak-C. Brands include Anadin, Tramil, Bisodol, Anne French, Chapstick, and Wyeth and SMA babymilks.
Contact: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Europe, PO Box 3169, London SW18 4WJ, 0208 870 3966

AquaBabies
to protest at the miserable existence and untimely death that is inevitable for the baby fish contained in them. Web page.
Contact: Animal Aid The Old Chapel, Bradford Street, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1AW, 01732 364546

Bacardi
for continuing to use its Cuban origins in its marketing despite being active in anti-Cuba lobby groups in the US. 
Contact: Rock around the Blockade on 0207 837 1688

Barclays - see Burma

The Beach
the film starring Leonardo Dicaprio, for destroying the site on an unspoilt Thai island on which the film was made by 20th Century Fox.
Contact: Neil Goodwin on 0208 530 7577

Benckiser
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients. 
Contact BUAV on 0207 700 4888

British Heart Foundation
as a leading medical charity which tests on animals. (Started in February 2000)
Contact: PETA on 0208 870 3966

Budweiser
because its producers, Anheuser Busch, own Seaworld operations which involve captive performing orcas (killer whales).
Contact: Cetaecea Defence on 01403 240170

Burma
is ruled by one of the world's most brutal regimes and has used forced labour to prepare the country for tourism. The boycott is an avoidance of tourism and of companies with investments in Burma, such as Premier Oil and its bankers, Barclays.
Contact: Burma Campaign UK, 3rd floor Bickerton House, 25-27 Bickerton Rd, London N19 5JT, tel. 0207 281 7377

China
for its continued human rights abuses.
Contact: Third World Movement on 0208 208 2853 or rhino@dial.pipex.com

Colgate-Palmolive
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888

DaimlerChrysler
for its continued failure to pay adequate compensation for its use of slave labour in Germany during World War II.
Contact: Boycott DaimlerChrysler

Diageo
until it pays adequate compensation to the victims of the morning sickness drug thalidomide. Brands include Burger King, Haagen-Dazs, Guinness, Bells whisky.
Contact: Express newspaper on 020 7928 8000

Dior
for its advertising campaign which features models who "look dead, drugged, greasy and are in or near cars", thereby glamourising drunk driving whilst eroticising the victimisation of women.
Media Watch, PO Box 618, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. Tel: 001 831 423 6355 Website: www.mediawatch.com

Focus Do-It-All
for having petshops in their stores.
Contact: Animal Aid on 01732 364546

Gap
for the Fisher family's continued clearcutting of old growth forest in Mendocino County, USA. Clothing brands include Banana Republic and Old Navy.
Contact: Save the Redwoods-Boycott the Gap Campaign, 252 Frederick St, San Francisco, tel. 001 415 731 7924

GlaxoSmithKline (began Nov 2000)
One of the biggest customers to the Huntingdon Life Sciences animal testing laboratory. Brands include: Ribena, Lucozade, Aquafresh, Beechams, Macleans, Solphadeine, Nicorette, Nightnurse, Horlicks, Contac and Tums.
Contact: Shac PO Box 381, Cheltenham GL50 1YN tel. 0121 632 6460 info@shac.u-net.com

GM Foods
for their environmental and health impacts.
Contact: Friends of the Earth on 0207 490 1555

Herbalife Protein Shake
by Bruno Heinzer products, because it allegedly contains GM products
Contact: Genetic Food Alert on 01334 477411

Iams(owned by Procter & Gamble)
because of experiments on at least 460 cats and dogs, supported by Iams.
Contact: Uncaged St. Matthews House, 45 Carver Street, Sheffield S1 4FT tel: 0114 272 2220

SC Johnson
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients. 
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888

Levi Strauss and Co
for its continued failure to pay adequate compensation to workers who lost their jobs when a factory was relocated to Costa Rica.
Contact: Fuerza Unida, PO Box 830083, San Antonio, Texas, tel. (US) 210 927 2294

Lonely Planet Guides
until the new Lonely Planet guide to Burma is abandoned. Strong evidence exists that tourist facilities, roads and other construction programmes in Burma have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact: The Burma Campaign UK on 020 7281 7377 or Tourism Concern on 020 7753 3330

L'Oreal
because of its continued use of animal testing in cosmetic products. Brands include Maybelline, Vichy, Helena, Rubenstein, Lancome, Lanvin, Cacharel, Guy Larache, Ralph Lauren, Elvive, Studio Line and Kerastase.
Contact: Naturewatch on 01242 252 871 or email info@naturewatch.org

Marks & Spencers
For its historic and continuing support for Israel at a time of escalating conflict between Palestinians and the Israeli state.
Islamic Human Rights Commission, PO Box 598, Wembley, London. Telephone 020 8902 0888.

McDonalds
for its alleged mistreatment of animals. 
Contact: PETA on 0208 870 3966

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
because of its involvement in the funding of the Three Gorges Dam in China, which has been criticised for its flooding of important habitats and the forced displacement by the Chinese authorities of over 1 million people.
Contact: International Rivers Network on +1 510 848 1155 

Morocco
a tourism boycott for Morocco's continued illegal occupation of Western Sahara (since 1978) and human rights abuses of the Saharawi people, including in 1999-2000 those aimed at preventing the successful progress of a UN referendum.
Contact: Western Sahara Group, Oxford Chambers, Oxford Place, Leeds LS1 3AX, 0113 245 4786

Nestlé
for its irresponsible marketing of breastmilk substitutes.
Contact: Baby Milk Action, 23 St Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AX, 01223 464420

Nike
for its abuses of workers' rights in its factories in East Asia.
Contact: www.saigon.com/nike or Nike@saigon.com

Philip Morris
for its continued production and marketing of tobacco products. Brands include Maxwell House, Jacobs Suchard and Marlboro.
Contact: INFACT, 46 Plympton St, Boston, MA, USA, tel 001 617 695 2525

Procter and Gamble
for its continued use of animal testing. Brands made by P&G include Always, Ariel, Bold, Camay, Clearasil, Crest, Daz, Dreft, Fairy, Flash, Head and Shoulders, Insignia, Milton, Napisan, Oil of Ulay, Old Spice, Pampers, Sinex, Tide, Viakal, Vidal Sassoon, Vortex and Zest.
Contact: Uncaged, 14 Ridgeway Rd, Sheffield, S12 2SS (0114 253 0020), PETA, POBox 3169, London NW1 2JF (0208 870 3966), BUAV, 16a Crane Grove, London N7 8LB (0207 700 4888)

Reckitt and Colman
as part of a boycott of products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888

Shell
until the peoples of the Ogoni region in Nigeria receive a fair share of profits from oil extraction, and better environmental standards.
Contact: MOSOP-UK (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), Suite 3-4, Albion Place, Galena Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 0LT, 0208 563 8614

Stagecoach
buses and trains, because the company CEO has donated large sums to the campaign against repeal of Section 28 in Scotland.
Contact: Outrage on 0208 240 0222

Suzuki
for its involvement in Burma, one of the world's most oppressive regimes. 
Contact: Burma Campaign UK on 020 7281 7377 or email bagp@gn.apc.org

Texaco
for having the longest history of oil exploitation on tribal lands in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Contact: Survival International, 11-15 Emerald St, London WC1N 3QL, 0207 242 1441

Tropical Hardwoods
for the destruction of biodiversity and habitats involved in their logging. Covers all hardwoods except for those with Forest Stewardship Council labelling.
Contact: Friends of the Earth on 0207 490 1555

Turkey
a tourism boycott over the country's human rights abuses, also more recently regarding the Ilisu dam project.
Contact: Kurdistan Information Centre, 10 Glasshouse Yard, London EC1A 4JN, 0207 250 1315

UCI cinemas
for involvement in the destruction of community parkland and woodland at Crystal Palace as part of a large development.
Contact: community group on 0208 244 8399 or crystal@crystal.dircon.co.uk

Unilever
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household products and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888

World Bank bonds
to demand an end to structural adjustment programs and socially destructive world bank policies.
Major institutions with World Bank bonds include Nat West, Barclays Capital, HSBC, Goldman Sachs, MorganStanley and Citibank. Email A SEED Europe or visit the website.