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Monday, 16 August 2010
 En ny undersøgelse fra DanWatch dokumenterer, at flere danske kommuner har indkøbt tømmer fra ubæredygtig skovhugst i Congo-bassinet i Afrika.
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010
 Danish DONG and Swedish Vattenfall get a large amount of the coal for their power plants from one Colombian mine, the Cerrejón mine. This video report shows how Danish coal consumption is contributing to negative consequences for the people living in the area.
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Wednesday, 05 May 2010
 DanWatch and Concord Danmark have released a new report on the gold industry in Ghana and how mining companies move profits out of Africa taking advantage of loopholes in EU accounting regulation and European tax havens. The report is based on the DanWatch report Unrestrained Consumption on Africa's Expense.
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Friday, 19 March 2010
Although Ghana is Africa's second largest manufacturer of gold, it
is one of the least developed nations. The gold is harvested
by international mining companies who take advantage of Ghana's
lenient tax rules. A new report by DanWatch puts focus on the
consequences of mining in African countries.
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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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Friday, 14 November 2008
This report by DanWatch puts focus on danish pension companies'
and investment associations' ethical goals and their investements in
energy companies that are active in Burma. The aim is to illustrate
how Danish investors handle ethical challenges in practice, with
investments in Burma's energy sector as example.
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Friday, 30 May 2008
The report 'Bad Connections: How your mobile phone is linked to
abuse, fraud and unfair mining practices in DR Congo' documents that
cell phone providers do not do enough to accomodate the UN's and
other organisations' recommendations.
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Monday, 25 February 2008
 Despite new European regulations to prevent electronic waste from being dumped in Africa and Asia, a hidden flow of end-of-life electronics is threatening to drown West Africa. Local experts are calling for the EU to tighten control with the highly toxic waste.
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