The UN children's organization, Unicef, is buying medicine from three Indian pharmaceutical companies convicted of contamination in Hyderabad. According to an international expert UNICEF should be part of the solution.
A Danish-owned company has signed a 1.2 billion dollar contract to build a hydrogen power plant in the small South American country of Suriname. But the businessmen in front have no experience with green energy, the companies they claim as partners have never heard of them, and experts call the whole undertaking “dodgy” and “strange”.
Systematic A/S, a software and systems company headquartered in Aarhus, Denmark, never ceased to supply military software to the UAE, even though Denmark has put a stop to all military exports to a country suspected of war crimes in Yemen. Experts estimate that the IT company actively circumvents a Danish export ban.
The international aid organisation Humana People to People makes millions from the sale of second-hand clothing all over Europe, which consumers believe funds aid to developing countries. But only 13% of that money goes toward Humana’s charitable projects.
Europe's attempt to circumvent US sanctions has been a complete failure, according to experts and business organizations. Neither businesses or governments dare challenge the US, they say.
Next year marks the 20th year for the first promises from the chocolate industry to end child labor in Ivory Coast's cocoa plantations. However, more children than ever before are working in the Ivory Coast. Investigative media Danwatch found child laborers in 4 out of 6 Fairtrade certified plantations supplying European consumers.
Aarhus-based defense contractor Terma supplies equipment for warships and bombers used by the United Arab Emirates to starve and target civilians in Yemen. According to experts and human rights organizations, Terma may be responsible for possible war crimes.
High-profile coverage on the separation of migrant families and appalling conditions for inmates and detainees have recently sparked debate about the private prison industry in the United States. But Danish pension funds invest millions in US for-profit prisons, a Danwatch investigation shows. Following the disclosure, public sector workers’ pension funds will divest its shares in the companies.
