Lithium extraction for the batteries in our computers, telephones and electric cars is using many of the scarce water resources that allow indigenous peoples and animals to inhabit the world’s driest desert.
Germany, Italy and the EU are breaching several international conventions working with Libya to prevent migrants from reaching Europa, a top UN expert claims. Human rights organisations and experts on international law agrees. EU is defending the cooperation
Migrants working at a Malaysian factory supplying some of Europe’s and the US’ largest computer chip makers claim they have been subjected to forced labour, violent threats, passport confiscation and illegal wage deductions. Employer denies all accusations.
Scientists say there is no acceptable dose to avoid brain damage. Its use is banned in several European countries. Yet its residues are found in fruit baskets, on dinner plates, and in human urine samples from all over Europe. Now producers are pushing for a renewed EU-approval – perhaps in vain.
A new study suggest that a child’s risk of ASD increases if the mother’s residence during pregnancy was within 2000 meters of fields sprayed with chlorpyrifos.
A Danwatch investigation This investigation was financially supported with a grant from the IJ4EU fund. Despite EU embargoes to limit human rights abuses and internal repression in Belarus, the EU is funding surveillance equipment for Belarusian authorities that are instrumental in the crackdown of the political opposition and critics of the regime in the country […]
Tiger shrimps in Danish supermarkets is produced under outrageous conditions in Vietnam. 17 hour shifts at the assembly line and chlorine gas leaves workers with chronic, physical disorders. Supermarkets claim they did not know about the conditions.
An investigation into hundreds of EU-contracts reveals how the EU is funding military equipment used by Turkey to prevent refugees from escaping the civil war in Syria. The EU are complicit in violating human rights, experts say.
