Complicity

Copper extraction in Katanga, DR Congo

Bad Connections

How your mobile phone is linked to abuse, fraud and unfair mining practices in DR Congo
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G4S retreat from settlements drags out

In March G4S announced that the company would end several activities in illegal settlements on the West Bank. But this will first happen between 2012 and 2015, G4S now informs. And the company continues to provide security services in settlements and equipment to prisons

Ramboll will act against slave labour

After Danwatch in February revealed that Ramboll ignored slave-like working conditions at partners' work places in Dubai, Denmark's largest consulting engineer is changing its conduct, writes Ingeniøren.

Ramboll's partners use slave labour

Denmark's largest engineering consultancy firm is involved in prestige constructions worth millions in Dubai. Several of Ramboll's partners recruit Asian migrant workers under conditions characterised by experts as modern slavery.

Your dates could be grown on occupied land

Føtex and COOP import dates from Israeli suppliers who have production in the occupied Jordan Valley. The supermarkets do not control whether their dates come from one of the illegal settlements.

Gourmet-menu with a hint of repression

Restaurants in the Radisson hotel chain in Copenhagen are among the Danish restaurants that use herbs from illegal Israeli settlements.

Fruits of the settlement in our food

Research from Danwatch shows that herbs, dates, fruits and vegetables from illegal Israeli settlements end up in Denmark.

Føtex chain sells settlement peppers

Danish supermarkets sell fruit and vegetables from the illegal settlements in Palestine, shows research from DanWatch.
Photo: DanWatch 2010

Paolo: The rich throw us away

Luanda Sul is a suburb of Luanda under construction. Here expensive villas and luxury apartments have been built. The people who lived here had to give way for the construction of the Angolan political elite and was moved to Campapa Dois.
Photo: DanWatch 2010

Minister: No proof of corruption

Angola’s Minister of Industry refuses that there is corruption in the government and accuses Western oil companies of coming to the country believing that they can bribe their way to lucrative contracts.
Photo: Matuko Amini

Bling-bling and mammon to the elite

Parties with colorful drinks and cars worth millions are major items on the Angolan state budget. This peppered with the favouring of the elite makes the country one of the most unequal in the world.

Maersk in partnership with corrupt oil state

The Angolan state-owned oil company Sonangol is infamous for bargains and for making demands for use of specific subcontractors. Nevertheless, A.P. Moller-Maersk collaborates in the quest for the black gold.