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India: Severe flooding submerges tea estates, cutting off workers from essential infrastructure and forcing thousands to leave their homes

In July 2026, it was reported that 'unprecedented' flooding in Assam, India, had submerged tea gardens, resulting in workers' ...
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Shifting ground: Human rights, Chinese investment and the rush for transition minerals

The energy transition is fuelling a global competition to secure access to key transition minerals, with Chinese overseas ...
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Kazakhstan: Crude Accountability highlights toxic emission violations at Kokzhide oil field, endangering health of local population, incl. cos. non‑responses

Kazakhstan: Crude Accountability highlights toxic emission violations at Kokzhide oil field, endangering health of local ...
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‘Humanitarian disaster’: Australian construction giant CIMIC in underpayment scandal"

Australia’s largest construction company, CIMIC, has been accused of underpaying hundreds of workers, subcontractors and banks in its troubled Middle East operations by more than $500 million in a ...
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UK: Sun & Daily Mail accused of contributing to create anti-refugee sentiment in UK

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Ray-Ban Meta glasses raise concerns about privacy rights, consent and increased surveillance

"How Meta’s New Face Camera Heralds a New Age of Surveillance" 13 December 2023 ...I was testing the recently released $300 Ray-Ban Meta glasses that Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking empire made in ...
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Kenya: Del Monte sued for alleged human rights abuses including killings, beatings & water pollution

"Activists File Lawsuit Alleging Killings, Assaults at Del Monte Farm in Kenya" A rights group and community activists filed a lawsuit Saturday against U.S. multinational food giant Del Monte over ...
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Apple suspends purchase of minerals from DRC amid criminal complaint, bringing new hope in the conflict mineral crisis

US tech giant Apple says it has suspended the purchase of minerals whose source can be traced to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) following a criminal complaint filed against its subsidiaries in ...
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Food delivery & gig workers increasingly exposed to extreme weather events to maintain income, while lacking protections incl. health insurance

"From snow to heat, extreme weather events pose outsized risks for food delivery workers," ... Around the world, millions of food delivery workers regularly go up against the elements to maintain ...
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Haiti: Human rights group warns of risks as Vectus Global deploys private military force under 10-year contract

"Exclusive: Trump ally Erik Prince plans to keep personnel in Haiti for 10 years to fight gangs and collect taxes" August 14, 2025 ...The prominent Donald Trump supporter and private security ...
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USA: At least six Amazon employees die after tornado strikes warehouse, raising concerns over phone ban for workers

"‘No way in hell I am relying on Amazon’: Company phone ban worries employees after six die in warehouse cave-in", 13 December 2021 At least six Amazon employees died...after a warehouse in ...
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USA: More than 500 businesses, including McDonald's, Burger King and Walmart, allegedly using Alabama prisoners as cheap labour

"Alabama profits off prisoners safe enough to work at McDonald’s, deems them too dangerous for parole" ... No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private ...