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Business and conflict
22 June 2022

Companies impact women´s rights and social conflict in Liberia and Sierra Leone

Liberia and Sierra Leone have identified economic growth, sustainable management of natural resources...
Call to action
NATURAL RUBBER
23 February 2021

Firestone Liberia and Bridgestone Corporation Must Investigate Pollution Claims

Natural rubber is used in many products from car tyres to clothes. Its processing provides livelihoods...
Call to action
PEACEBUILDING
01 December 2020

Swedwatch calls for integration of business and human rights into peace and security frameworks

Swedwatch recently joined an online dialogue with the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights an...
Call to action
HUMAN RIGHTS DUE DILLIGENCE
29 September 2020

Swedwatch part of human rights due diligence campaign

Swedwatch is part of a new campaign in Sweden calling for legislation requiring companies to respect h...
Call to action
Export credits
23 September 2020

New report calls for end to export credits to coal

The coal industry is well-known for its serious climate implications and effects on local communities....
Call to action
MAKE ICT FAIR
26 June 2020

ICT workers should not be exposed to hazardous chemicals

As electronics manufacturing has been widely outsourced to Asia in recent decades, so has exposure to...
Call to action
CUSTOMER RESPONSIBILITY
10 June 2020

Mining machinery sales in Myanmar may be aggravating human rights abuses

Major mining machinery suppliers still appear to lack adequate safeguards in their sales, two years af...
Call to action
Pharmaceutical effluents
19 February 2020

Time to hold pharmaceutical polluters to account

Impacts on health, environment and livelihoods. In India, local communities have for decades protested...
Call to action
Human rights defenders
12 December 2019

Urgent need for companies to address attacks against rights defenders

In a new report, Swedwatch and six Swedish civil society organisations urge European companies to step...
Call to action
PEACEBUILDING
26 November 2019

Human rights and environmental impact of business overlooked in peacebuilding

More than a billion people are affected by violent conflict around the world each year but the vital r...
Call to action
OECD
07 May 2019

Swedwatch raises new perspective on company responsibility at OECD

What are the responsibilties of companies who sell mining equipment on high-risk markets? This was dis...
Call to action
Make ICT Fair
06 May 2019

Environment and human rights risks in mining of ICT minerals

Unsustainable extraction of copper, a mineral frequently used in ICT products, has caused environmenta...
Call to action
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