The US company Textron Systems, the last manufacturer of cluster munitions in the US announced it will stop production of these weapons, which violate international… Read More »Textron to stop producing cluster munitions
For some time now, the South Korean company Samsung has faced worldwide criticism in relation to its lack of safety standards in its factories. In 2007… Read More »Samsung: hush money payments for sick workers ?
In a court decision of August 2016, the Indonesian court in Jakarta sentenced the Indonesian palm oil producer Sampoerna Agro to the highest ever penalty… Read More »Sampoerna Agro: Indonesian Palm Oil producer fined for rainforest destruction
According to the German Handelsblatt, German companies along with French and British arms exporters are providing engines and other defence equipment to both sides of… Read More »German companies profiting from rising tensions in the South China Sea:
The four major companies producing broiler chicken in Thailand have been shown to violate labour rights in the production facilities. The companies Charoen Pokphand Foods… Read More »Abuse of migrant workers in Thai Chicken production
As Facing Finance reported in January of this year, six former child slaves who had been trafficked from Mali to Cote D’Ivoire filed a suit… Read More »Nestlé, Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland: child slavery in Cote D’Ivor case
A new report released by the Human Rights Law Centre and partners, details the extent of financial sector involvement in companies associated with human rights… Read More »Financial sectors’ association with human rights abuses of asylum seekers in Australia
Recently Facing Finance published the results of a study by Human Rights Watch on the working conditions occurring on Indonesian tobacco plantations. Now the Swedish… Read More »British American Tobacco: Human Rights Violations in Bangladesh
On June 24, the German Bundestag addressed the issue of fracking, in particular to address and distinguish conventional from unconventional fracking. While conventional fracking has been applied… Read More »German government bans unconventional fracking
On 20th June 2016 the NGO Global Witness published their new study “On Dangerous Ground” drawing attention to the dramatic worldwide increase of killings of… Read More »New study by Global Witness shows a dramatic increase in killings of land and environmental defenders
