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  • 2 Mar 2008
    Topshop is in the frame over sweatshop accusations

    As local action associated with fair trade and labour practices continues, Topshop is facing a day of protests from its core customers, with students across Britain staging demonstrations today at the company's stores.

  • 15 Feb 2008
    Vatican observer at UN raises employment and job security concerns

    Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's permanent observer to the United Nations in New York, has spoken up for employment and workers' rights at a gathering on social and economic development from 6-15 February 2008.

  • 10 Feb 2008
    Abuse of Mexican electronics workers challenged in new report

    Electronics workers in Mexico are regularly subjected to denial of labour rights and dignity by companies - practices which needed to be challenged and changed, says a new report from the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development.

  • 2 Nov 2007
    US Christian-Muslim labour delegation coming to London for workers' rights

    An imam, a Christian minister, and a striking janitor from Indiana are coming to London to speak at a trade union gathering, to stress the importance of workers' rights in Islamic social thought, and to take on a company they say is violating them.

  • 24 Aug 2007
    British shopping giant attacked over Polish working practices

    Britain's supermarket giant Tesco is under fire from Polish church and trade union officials after it ignored a new ban on trading during Roman Catholic festivals which are also public holidays. The shopping transnational is accused of "trampling" on workers' rights.