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☆ Amazon to pay $1.9 million to migrant contract workers to settle claims of human rights abuses
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-23 | by ( Annie Palmer | In Annierpalmer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Amazon will pay more than 700 migrant workers roughly $1.9 million to settle claims they suffered human rights abuses as a result of exploitative labor contracts in Saudi Arabia. While they worked at Amazon warehouses, the workers were housed in accommodations that were "overcrowded and dirty, infested with bed bugs and lacking even the most basic facilities," Amnesty wrote. The abuses suffered by workers were so severe that they likely amounted to "human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation as defined by international law and standards," Amnesty wrote in the October report. Amazon has disputed regulators' allegations, and it has said it continues to invest in worker safety. WATCH: Amazon's worker safety hazards come under fire from regulators and the DOJ

Persons: Verité, Abdullah Fahad Al, AFMCO, they're Organizations: Amazon, Amnesty, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Investigative Journalism, Guardian Locations: Robbinsville , New Jersey, Saudi Arabia

☆ How torture, inaction underpin UAE's thriving sex trafficking industry
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +9 min

“The suffering was too much.”In a statement to the court after she was charged, Gold denied that she and her brother were sex traffickers. Emirati authorities do little to protect these women, according to anti-trafficking activists, Nigerian authorities and interviews with trafficked women. Human traffickers keep African women in sexual slavery by playing on their financial desperation and creating webs of manipulation and coercion, the reporting shows. This article is part of a reporting collaboration led by ICIJ, Trafficking Inc., which is examining sex trafficking and labor trafficking in many parts of the globe. The UAE made sex trafficking a crime in 2006 and has established an interagency anti-trafficking panel and opened shelters for survivors.

Persons: Christy Gold’s, Gold, Christiana Jacob Uadiale –, they’d, “, ”, ICIJ, Fatima Waziri, NAPTIP, Angus Thomas Organizations: United Arab, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Reuters, UAE, Gold, Emirates, NBC, Investigative Journalism, Dubai, UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria’s National Agency for, U.S . State Department Locations: Nigerian, Nigeria, Dubai, British, United Arab Emirates, Gulf, UAE, “, ”, Ghana, Gold, Europe, South Asia, Africa, Abu Dhabi

☆ Ericsson pleads guilty in U.S. to federal bribery violations, agrees to pay $206 million penalty
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( Rohan Goswami | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson agreed to pay a $206 million penalty and pleaded guilty to violating the anti-bribery provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, U.S. prosecutors announced Thursday evening. Additionally, the company paid about $540 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company also allegedly failed to disclose possible evidence of a similar scheme in Iraq. "Instead of honoring that commitment, Ericsson repeatedly failed to fully cooperate and failed to disclose evidence and allegations of misconduct in breach of the agreement." In a release, Ericsson said its own internal investigation "did not conclude that Ericsson made or was responsible for any payments to any terrorist organization."

☆ Foreign workers killed working on U.S. bases likely didn't get compensation required by U.S., report says
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Andrew W. Lehren | Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Courtney-Kube-Circle-Byline-Template.Jpg | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Tens of thousands of workers from Nepal, the Philippines and other developing countries took jobs at U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. Called third-country nationals, or TCNs, because they were not from the U.S. or Afghanistan, they worked as cafeteria workers, janitors and often armed guards for the bases. When a car bomb or other Taliban attack occurred, Afghans and TCN contractors “were far more likely to be killed or injured,” said the report. During the interviews, Coburn and Gill found 12 different contract workers injured or killed who did not appear to have received proper compensation. When contractors are found to have violated insurance requirements, there is little punishment, according to the report.

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☆ Dutch conclude lobbying didn't influence Uber International's taxes
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

"The conclusion of the investigative report is that no advantaging of Uber took place," the document sent to parliament on Tuesday said. "Whatever Uber thought or hoped it would achieve in terms of special fiscal treatment did not succeed." The Dutch subsidiary Uber International BV has around 1,000 employees in Amsterdam. Dutch tax authorities do not reveal information about how they treat individual companies and parts of the findings were redacted. In one redacted passage, the review said that pressure from Uber and the Dutch government's agency tasked with attracting foreign investment "was resisted in an effective way" by the Dutch tax office.

NBC News, in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, The Washington Post, and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism, interviewed more than 40 current and former employees of contractors at military bases. According to an NBC News analysis, at least 10 companies with substantiated trafficking violations since 2007 have received billions in new government contracts. ‘Mad scramble’Foreign workers are crucial for the more than 700 military bases with U.S. service members around the world. One company that continues to get work at Middle East bases despite past violations documented in an Army compliance agreement is Tamimi, Abdulla’s employer. Lusambu Karim, a 50-year-old Ugandan, told NBC News about trafficking violations he said he encountered working for Aegis in Afghanistan from 2018 to 2020.

☆ RISE Moldova angajează reporter
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-24 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +2 min

RISE Moldova (www.rise.md) anunță concurs de angajare a unui reporter. Dosarul poate fi expediat online la adresa de email: info@rise.md cu titlul „Reporter 21”, până la data de 11 iulie 2021, ora 23.59. * * *RISE Moldova este o comunitate de jurnaliști de investigație, programatori și activiști din Republica Moldova și România. RISE Moldova face parte din rețeaua globală a jurnaliștilor de investigație „Global Investigative Journalism Network” și se numără printre membrii organizației „The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)”. În 2015 și 2016, RISE a fost partenerul pentru Republica Moldova al proiectelor globale de investigație #PanamaPapers și #SwissLeaks, coordonate de The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Persons: RISE Organizations: Moldova Locations: Moldova, Republica Moldova, România, Europa de Est, Asia Centrală

☆ RISE Moldova angajează Asistent manager / Fundraiser
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-09 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +3 min

RISE Moldova anunță concurs public de angajare pentru poziția "Asistent manager" / "Fundraiser". Perioada de angajare: Contract pe durată determinată / iulie 2021 - octombrie 2021 (înlocuirea temporară a angajatei plecate în concediu de maternitate - cu posibilitate de prelungire pe post de "Fundraiser" sau "coordonator Social Media"). Experiență în Social Media constituie un avantaj. RISE Moldova este o comunitate de jurnaliști de investigație, programatori și activiști din Republica Moldova și România. În 2015 și 2016, RISE a fost partenerul pentru Republica Moldova al proiectelor globale de investigație #PanamaPapers și #SwissLeaks, coordonate de The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Persons: RISE Organizations: Moldova, Social Media Locations: engleze, Republica Moldova, România, Europa de Est, Asia Centrală

☆ Termen extins: RISE Moldova angajează Coordonator de Proiecte
▼ + stars: | 2021-05-06 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +3 min

RISE Moldova prelungește perioada de aplicare pentru angajarea unui Coordonator de Proiecte care va realiza și sarcini de Fundraiser. Perioada de angajare: Contract pe durată determinată / mai 2021 - octombrie 2021 (înlocuirea temporară a angajatei plecate în concediu de maternitate, cu posibilitate de prelungire pe post de Fundraiser sau/și Coordonator de proiect/Asistent manager). RISE Moldova este o comunitate de jurnaliști de investigație, programatori și activiști din Republica Moldova și România. RISE Moldova face parte din rețeaua globală a jurnaliștilor de investigație „Global Investigative Journalism Network” și se numără printre membrii organizației „The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)”. În 2015 și 2016, RISE a fost partenerul pentru Republica Moldova al proiectelor globale de investigație #PanamaPapers și #SwissLeaks, coordonate de The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Persons: RISE Organizations: Moldova Locations: engleze, Republica Moldova, România, Europa de Est, Asia Centrală

☆ RISE Moldova angajează Coordonator de Proiect
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-17 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +3 min

RISE Moldova anunță concurs de angajare a unui Coordonator de Proiect care va realiza și sarcini de Fundraiser. Perioada de angajare: Contract pe durată determinată / mai 2021 - octombrie 2021 (înlocuirea temporară a angajatei plecate în concediu de maternitate, cu posibilitate de prelungire pe post de Fundraiser sau/și Coordonator de proiect/Asistent manager). RISE Moldova este o comunitate de jurnaliști de investigație, programatori și activiști din Republica Moldova și România. RISE Moldova face parte din rețeaua globală a jurnaliștilor de investigație „Global Investigative Journalism Network” și se numără printre membrii organizației „The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)”. În 2015 și 2016, RISE a fost partenerul pentru Republica Moldova al proiectelor globale de investigație #PanamaPapers și #SwissLeaks, coordonate de The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.

Persons: RISE Organizations: Moldova Locations: engleze, Republica Moldova, România, Europa de Est, Asia Centrală

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