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Il s’agira, 3 mois après la COP21, d’apporter les réponses concrètes aux entreprises, de toute taille et de tout secteur, face au défi climatique, et plus globalement face au défi de la transformation...
View ArticleAllemagne : Facebook s’engage à supprimer les messages racistes, haineux et...
« Facebook : l'Allemagne traque les contenus haineux », 18 janvier 2016 La responsabilité de Facebook quant aux contenus haineux ou de propagande djihadiste est pointée du doigt. Le gouvernement...
View ArticleEuropean Court of Human Rights rules Romanian co. did not breach privacy...
"Bosses reading your emails are not breaching your privacy", 13 Jan 2016 The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a company in Romania did not breach the privacy rights of an employee when it...
View ArticleRussia: Environmental NGO labelled "foreign agent" in crackdown on NGOs
"Russian green group labelled 'foreign agent' in crackdown on NGOs", 14 January 2016 An ecological centre in Russia’s far east has become the latest environmental group to be declared a “foreign agent”...
View Article"This is what we die for" Human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of...
This report, jointly researched by Amnesty International and African Resources Watch (Afrewatch), examines the conditions under which artisanal miners extract a significant proportion of the world’s...
View ArticleExposed: Child labour behind smart phone and electric car batteries
Major electronics brands, including Apple, Samsung and Sony, are failing to do basic checks to ensure that cobalt mined by child labourers has not been used in their products, said Amnesty...
View ArticleChildren as young as seven mining cobalt used in smartphones, says Amnesty
Children as young as seven are working in perilous conditions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to mine cobalt that ends up in smartphones, cars and computers sold to millions across the world,...
View ArticleCambodge : Une organisation se crée pour rassembler les syndicats du textile...
« Cambodge : un avocat en droit du travail lance une ONG pour unir les syndicats », 16 janvier 2016 Le Centre pour l’Alliance du Travail et des Droits de l’Homme, ou « Central », veut rassembler ces...
View ArticleVietnam: 30 detained in Hanoi over land-grab protests ahead of party meetings
Vietnamese authorities…detained about 30 people in the capital Hanoi for protesting local government attempts to seize family farms… The protest by about 100 people in the central city was broken up...
View ArticleRakhine locals to dispute SEZ tender
8 Jan 2016 Rakhine State locals are lodging complaints with a Kyaukphyu special economic zone (SEZ) committee…according to a local NGO group, after a consortium led by Chinese firm CITIC won two...
View ArticleCitic Consortium awarded Kyaukphyu SEZ project
4 Jan 2016 An international consortium headed by one of China’s biggest conglomerates has been awarded the project to develop the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone in Rakhine State… The consortium is...
View ArticleEcuador: Amnesty Intl. issues "urgent action" after community leaders...
Urgent Action, 13 January 2016 Manuel Trujillo and Manuela Pacheco have been accused of committing organized terrorism, a charge which carries a maximum sentence of eight years in prison...They are...
View ArticleMozambique: Human rights defenders promoting food sovereignty face harassment...
"Mozambique: Intimidation and smear campaign against human rights defenders Jeremias Vunjanhe and Vicente Adriano", 15 Jan 2016 On 11 January 2016, human rights defenders Mr Jeremias Vunjanhe and Mr...
View Article“Sharper focus on human rights needed”
Sharper focus on human rights needed [Rapport 2015.11.30] - See more at: http://www.swedwatch.org/en/reports/sharper-focus-human-rights-needed#st... Sharper focus on human rights needed [Rapport...
View ArticleUS-based technology companies exacerbating income inequality, World Bank warns
"Silicon Valley tech firms exacerbating income inequality, World Bank warns", 14 Jan. 2016 ...[To] the World Bank...Silicon Valley’s technology firms appear to be exacerbating economic inequality...
View ArticleRE/MAX Letter to Code Pink (regarding franchise operations on the West Bank,...
RE/MAX understands the serious nature of teh controversy surrounding real estates operations in teh West Bank and has been working to a find a resolution that is acceptable to all parties. To better...
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