Executive Summaries

Executive summary of the report on the Swedish import of meat and soy from Brazil.

Swedwatch's report on three Swedish companies' efforts to improve working conditions at factories in Sri Lanka and India.

Executive summary of the tourism report including conclusions and recommendations to the Swedish companies.

The executive summary of a report about mobile phone manufacturing in China and the Philippines.

Executive summary of the report The Dark side of Healthcare.

SwedWatch report describes how the Swedish company Sandvik has a close business relation with the controverial mine Freeport in Papau.

In this report SwedWatch examines the social and environmental effects behind the Swedish imports of coffee from Brazil. Improvements have been made the last years, due to the work of local unions, authorities and different certification programs, but the industry still demonstrates unacceptable ethical flaws.

Executive summary of the report: ”Growth in low cost countries with ethical risks – Assa Abloy in Romania and Mexico”, September 2005.

In this report SwedWatch examines the role and the responsibility of companies that are present in undemocratic and repressive states. Six Swedish companies have production plants in Saudi Arabia, a country well known for its negative human rights record.

SwedWatch report about paper and pulp in Indonesia focuses on the Swedish business relations with the large pulpmills on Sumatra and the consequenses for the rainforests and the local communities in the region.