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30 May 2013

G4S: We'll stay in prisons and settlements

In the controversial issue of their engagement on the occupied West Bank, G4S now reveals which contracts they plan to pull out of and which they plan to continue

G4S sign in Israeli settlement. Photo: DanWatch

17 May 2013 Fashion clothes for deplorable wages Textile workers in Bangladesh work around the clock to produce Western fashion clothes for a pay below the living wage level.	31 January 2013 Minerals from Congo – now without the blood? A large proportion of the minerals used in everyday electronic equipment comes from the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, an a conflict-affected area. Well-known electronics producers are now taking measures to avoid conflict minerals from Congo in their products.
18 January 2013 When words are not enough In a business founded upon different sets of values, words are not always enough. Rambøll has several times tried to notify two contractors that their employees worked under slave-like conditions. But they were met with silence.	15 January 2013 Overtime turned into flextime at Hungary's electronics factories Nokia, Samsung and other well-known brands manufacture their mobile phones in Hungary. Although the production takes place in Europe, this is no guarantee for decent working conditions.
13 December 2012 Municipalities are investing tax-payer money in illegal settlements Danish municipalities have invested millions in companies involved in illegal Israeli settlements.	11 December 2012 Are your savings invested in illegal settlements? Danish pension funds and investment funds are using their customers' savings to invest heavily in illegal Israeli settlements. The UN special rapporteur recommends the selling of shares, but this is not the way to go, investors say.
11 November 2012 Danish universities work with illegal settlements The Technical University of Denmark and Roskilde University participates in scientific collaborations involving Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. DTU now drop their project with a settlement. The Danish Foreign Minister welcomes the decision.	3 November 2012 Your slavery footprint Europe is the world's largest importer of leather shoes but much of the leather itself comes from cattle farms deep in the Brazilian Amazon, where farms use slave labourers and where slaughterhouses do not respect workers' safety.
3 November 2012 ’The cattle needs to live until we reach the slaughterhouse’ Cattle crammed into trucks, calves hurled on their backs and other serious animal welfare abuses happen daily in India. Despite ambitious legislation, animal welfare is a concept the leather industry is yet to embrace.	22 October 2012 Danish engineers watching for slave labour – but finding nothing The major Danish consulting engineers have made it mandatory for their employees to report human rights violations when working at construction sites in the Middle East and Africa, among other places. But so far no one has had anything to report.