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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
 A new survey that DanWatch has made for the magazine Kommunen shows that elementary shool and kindergarten teachers' pension funds are being invested in companies who use child labour in Bangladesh and Liberia.
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Friday, 12 February 2010
 Minister of Finance Claus Hjort Frederiksen (V) had to to plead ignorance on many of the questions posed by the members of the Energy Policy Committee at the open consultation, concerning DONG’s involvement with the Cerrejón mine in Colombia.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
 A large amount of the coal that ends up in DONG's and Vattenfall's power plants comes from a single mine in Colombia. In 2008, the Cerrejón mine covered 27 per cent - corresponding to two million tons - of Denmark's total coal consumption. The report documents some of the mine's negative consequences for health and life quality amongst mine workers and the population in the surrounding areas.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
 Mine workers become disabled, and neighbours are slowly suffocated by pollution. Despite a promise from 2006, DONG has never checked the mine that supplies one-fourth of Denmark's coal, while Vattenfall calls it ”world class”.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
 Three coal mine workers tell about the afflictions that they believe
they have contracted due to the work in the mine. They are all
disappointed with the mining company's treatment.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
This article is only available in Danish.
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Thursday, 28 January 2010
This article is only available in Danish.
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Monday, 16 November 2009
 Danske sygeplejersker, socialpædagoger og jordemødre har investeret
pensionspenge i firmaer, der bruger børnearbejde, forsyner
militærdiktaturet i Burma med køretøjer og producerer vigtige dele til
klyngebomber.
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009
 En gennemgang af de fem største kommunale investorer viser, at borgernes penge investeres i selskaber, som krænker basale menneskerettigheder, ødelægger miljøet og producerer våben, der primært lemlæster og dræber civile.
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Friday, 16 May 2008
 This article is only available in Danish.
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Thursday, 07 February 2008
 Private pensionsselskaber skjuler deres investeringer i svært gennemskuelige rapporter eller på afsides hjemmesidelinks. Andre vælger ganske enkelt at hemmeligholde navnene på de virksomheder, der nyder godt af pensionskronerne. Virksomheder, som meget vel kan være medvirkende til menneskerettighedskrænkelser eller omfattende miljøødelæggelser.
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Thursday, 17 January 2008
 PFA slutter sig nu til gruppen af pensionskasser, som ikke vil sættes i forbindelse med Chevron og Total på grund af de to olie- og gasselskabers samarbejde med Burmas militærjunta.
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Monday, 11 June 2007
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