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Brazil charges Volkswagen unit with treating farm workers like slaves decades ago

06/12/2024 - Leave a Comment

If you trace the path of one electrical transmission line up the coast of Maine, through and around the state’s rocky outcroppings and over a long causeway, you’ll finally reach …

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Swiss women win landmark climate case at Europe top human rights court

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STRASBOURG, France, April 9 (Reuters) – Europe’s top human rights court ruled on Tuesday that the Swiss government had violated the human rights of its citizens by failing to do …

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Renewables are exacerbating modern slavery — how businesses can act

18/08/202318/08/2023 - Leave a Comment

When Mahendra Pandey was a teenager, he traveled from his home country of Nepal to Saudi Arabia for work. He said his passport was confiscated upon arrival, and he was …

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H&M probes alleged Myanmar factory abuses as pressure intensifies

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H&M, the world’s second-largest fashion retailer, is investigating 20 alleged instances of labour abuse at Myanmar garment factories that supply it, Reuters news agency has reported, just weeks after Zara-owner Inditex, the …

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Progress on forced labour products ban too slow, says leading rapporteur

14/04/202314/04/2023 - Leave a Comment

The Swedish Presidency’s progress on the regulation to prohibit products made with forced labour from the EU is “good news, but not enough”, according to the European Parliament’s co-rapporteur on …

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Iran privately menaces EU capitals against sanctions

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VIENNA/BRUSSELS/BERLIN/PARIS — Iran this week privately pressured EU diplomats to abandon sanctions against Tehran over its lethal crackdown on protesters, warning diplomats the move may rupture Europe’s ties to the …

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Jailed Australian economist testifies in secretive Myanmar trial

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An Australian academic and economic adviser to Myanmar’s elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained after the military seized power last year, has testified in a military court …

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Sri Lankan power family falls from grace as economy tanks

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NEW DELHI — With one brother president, another prime minister and three more family members cabinet ministers, it appeared that the Rajapaksa clan had consolidated its grip on power in …

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How new technology is helping to identify human rights abuses in the seafood industry

25/02/202126/02/2021 - Leave a Comment

Every year, the U.S. imports billions of dollars worth of seafood from countries that may be using forced labor on distant water fishing vessels. A growing cadre of tech companies …

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Combatting Modern Slavery

04/09/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Over the last decade, the world’s largest corporations – from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever – have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. …

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