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1 Cameron’s G8 tax plan 'no detail and no deadlines' 18 Jun 2013
2 Cameron slated on tax dodge moves 17 Jun 2013
3 Cameron’s tax havens summit ‘all show and no substance’ 14 Jun 2013
4 G4S faces protest over Israel ‘torture’ prisons 4 Jun 2013
5 African groups reject G8 corporate food plan as 'colonialism' 3 Jun 2013
6 Benetton & Mango stores face protests over failure to compensate Bangladesh disaster victims 25 May 2013
7 Pressure on Primark grows over tragedy 1 May 2013
8 UK move sparks ‘ban killer drones’ call 26 Apr 2013
9 Protest targets Primark over Bangladesh workplace disaster 26 Apr 2013
10 Campaigners demand action following Bangladesh building collapse 25 Apr 2013
11 'Ban killer drones' UK alert 22 Apr 2013
12 Pressure grows on G4S to end Israeli prison contracts 22 Apr 2013
13 Activists tell Foot Locker to give Adidas the boot 22 Apr 2013
14 Budget – Osborne’s tax anti-abuse rule “a hollow PR stunt” set to increase tax avoidance 20 Mar 2013
15 Osborne’s Budget ‘tax sham’ to give a green light to corporate tax avoiders 20 Mar 2013
16 G4S accused over links to Palestinian ‘torture’ death jail 25 Feb 2013
17 Protests planned across the UK against supermarket chain Sainsbury’s for trading with companies profiting from the occupation of Palestine 8 Feb 2013
18 G4S joins world’s worst company 'hall of shame' 24 Jan 2013
19 EU approval of financial transaction tax welcomed 22 Jan 2013
20 Olympic ‘shambles’ G4S up for wooden spoon 4 Jan 2013
21 UK aid ‘fuelling hunger in Africa’ 11 Dec 2012
22 Autumn statement - Osborne ‘turning a blind eye’ to tax avoidance 5 Dec 2012
23 Campaigners slam Osborne's hollow tax plans 3 Dec 2012
24 Report exposes Osborne tax plan ‘hypocrisy’ 3 Dec 2012
25 War on Want condemns Israel attack on Gaza 20 Nov 2012
26 War on Want supports ‘unprecedented’ austerity fight 14 Nov 2012
27 'Pay living wage everywhere' call to British firms 2 Nov 2012
28 Campaigners demand supermarket watchdog given teeth 17 Oct 2012
29 Nearly 50,000 people join to demand Adidas pay Indonesian workers US$1.8M 3 Sep 2012
30 Protest targets Vedanta mines ‘abuse’ 28 Aug 2012
31 Cameron hunger event branded a ‘distraction’ 9 Aug 2012
32 'Coe' dishes it out to Olympic partners 7 Aug 2012
33 Olympic projection spotlights Adidas factories ‘exploitation’ 5 Aug 2012
34 New Olympic protest targets Adidas 4 Aug 2012
35 Adidas chief slammed for denying 34p an hour wages 25 Jul 2012
36 G4S Olympics Games security row sparks call for mercenary regulation 17 Jul 2012
37 Adidas reels under Olympics ‘sweatshops’ protests 14 Jul 2012
38 Protestors say London summit pushing global land grabs and hunger 26 Jun 2012
39 Mines firm accused over deaths, abuse, corruption 14 Jun 2012
40 Hammond raises fears over ‘privatisation of war’ 7 Jun 2012
41 Adidas told ‘Exploitation. It’s not OK anywhere’ 7 Jun 2012
42 JCB 'complicit' in Palestinian rights violations 1 Jun 2012
43 'Back Zara poverty workers' call to Kate 15 May 2012
44 Charity claims victory over stores abuse 9 May 2012
45 Palestine human rights group raided 8 May 2012
46 Charity sets record to aid sweatshop workers 3 May 2012
47 Minchin aids sweatshop workers 18 Apr 2012
48 London 2012’s Coe pressed over Adidas sweatshops 5 Mar 2012
49 Redgrave plea for sweatshop workers 28 Feb 2012
50 JCB slated on Jerusalem playground demolition 20 Feb 2012

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