PRESSURE CAMPAIGNS
- January 1999 - In Italy a campaign is going on that asks for a pubblic monitoring authority about workers' rights
- September 1998 - Dozens of U.S. and European human rights, environmental, labor and citizen groups called on Chiquita to meet with the workers' representatives who report new and ongoing human rights abuses
- July 1998 - Centre for New Development (Italy) in cooperation with Mani Tese organizes a pressure campaign to ask to the Italian Parlamient a law that forces companies to give informations about sourcing
- January 1998 - Nike: Rapid Developments
- From April 30th until May 5th the Clean Clothes Campaigns in Europe, together with the Permanent Peoples Tribunal, will organize an International Forum on Clean Clothes
- 1997 - War on Want's "Invest in freedom" campaign
- Nike Campaign Chronology as to 31/12/97
- October 1997 - Report on the partecipation at the international Nike action day (18/101/97)
- Toys 1997 - Some indian organizations have launched tha Campaign For Fair Play for the eradication of child labour from Indian Sport Industry.
- Toys - October 1997 - Success of the "Fair Games" Campaign: Chicco/Artsana will pay compensation to the victims of the Zhili fire.
- September 1997 - War on Want asks pension funds to press for better working conditions in developing countries.
- Nike - September 1997 - Campaign for Labour Rights comments the steps taken by Nike and Reebok in Pakistan to obtain balls not produced by children. News about Foulball campaign.
- August 1997 - After four months of difficult negotiations and six years of international campaign, the Phillip-Van Heusen ratified a contract with the STECAMOSA trade union in Guatemala.
- February 1997 - 10 steps proposedby the FoulBall campaign to stop child labour in the production of soccer balls
- Global march against child labour
- ICCR suggestions for "what you can do" against sweatshops (see ICCR: what you can do)
- July 1997 - Clean Clothes Campaign proposes to adress Walt Disney, C&A, and Reebok to ask them how they can guarantee that their products sourced in China are made according to the standards laid down in their codes of conduct
- July 1997 - Write urging Dole and Stanfilco to cease their attacks on NFL, an independent trade union of the Philippines
- May 1997 - Suggestions to run effectively a pressure campaign (see A checklist for effective campaigning and Principles for Labor Solidarity Campaigns)
- June 1997 - giocattoli - the "Just do it" american group calls for a boycott against Nike.
- June 1997 - Toys - a coalition of international trade union federations and american NGOs launched the Foulball Campaign to ensure that children would no longer kick around the balls made by impoverished children half a world away.
- Spring 1997- toys- The "Fair games" campaign is launched in Italy to help the families of the workers who died in the Zhili fire in China, to get fair compensation.
- Coffee - April 1997 - Starbucks repudiates its Code of Conduct. U.S./GLEP launches a campaign to bring the company back into line (see "Starbucks reneges on code")
- Banana - April 1997 - Request for a letter to be sent to the Government of Costa Rica in protest against the anti-trade union feeling pervading the country (see "Costa Rica Urgent Action on Freedom of Association")
- Textiles - February 1997 - The American NGO 'National Labour Committee' launches a campaign against Walt Disney in protest for the mistreatment of Asiatic and Central American workers who produce its garments
(see "Disney's fantasy becomes a nightmare" )
- Textiles - January 1997 - Text of letter to be sent to "Walt Disney" in protest against the bad working-conditions of its female workers in Haiti (see "Letter to Disney in defence of Haiti's workers")
- Footwear - 1997 - News and motivations on the International Campaign against Nike, as explained by Jeff Ballinger ( see "Why we are campaining on Nike")
- August 1996 - Kernaghan relates his experiences in the organization of campaigns in favour of workers' rights in Central America (see "Interview with Charles Kernaghan 1" and "Interview with Charles Kernaghan 2")
- Textiles - 1996 - The Canadian Association "Developpement et Paix" organizes a Post-card campaign against Levi's to obtain an independant monitoring system (see document )
- Textiles - August 1996 - Oxfam launches a Pressure campaign to induce the Garment distribution chains to adopt a Code of Conduct (see "Oxfam launched clothes code campaign" )
- Textiles - July 1996 - COSDEMA is created in Salvador. It coordinates the defence of Dignity in Labour in the Special Economic Zones. COSDEMA seeks international collaboration (see "Coalition for dignity in labour in El Salvador" )
- Textiles - July 1996 - Campaign against clandestine workers in the United States (see "Campaign against sweatshops" )
- Toys - July 1996 - Exhortation not to buy Barbie dolls in protest for the discovery of Child Labour used in an Indonesian factory under contract to Mattel (see "Don't buy Barbie!" )
- Toys - April 1996 - Pressure campaign in the United States to ensure better conditions for the workers in the toy industry (see "Toying with workers" )
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(document produced by activists and militant trade unionist in Mexico and the United States)
- Banana - February 1996 - Letter Campaign launched by SPEAR/Belize in protest for the intolerable living and working conditions on the Banana plantations owned by Fyffes and other producers in Belize
- Banana - February 1996 - Urgent appeal against army intervention in the Tagamiche plantation (Honduras) owned by Chiquita (see "Tacamiche urgent action")
- Textiles - February 1996 - Agreement reached with the commercial enterprise GAP for the creation of an Independant Monitoring Committee in Salvador (see "Gap Victory")
(The text of the agreement can be found in the section "Agreements reached")
- Textiles - January 1996 - The Trade-union UNITE launches an Awareness campaign in America on the textile workers' conditions (see document )
- Textiles - January 1996 - 'Clean Clothes Campaign' urges protest against the closing of a textile factory in Bangladesh as retaliation to the Trade-union (see "Illegal lockout in garment factory to crush union")
- Children - January 1996 - "Appeal for action to end child and adult slavery in Pakistan" Anti-Slavery International urges action to end the exploitation of child and adult labour in Pakistan
- Textiles - 1995 - The Canadian Association "Developpement et Paix" organizes a Postcard Campaign against Nike to obtain an independant monitoring system (see document )
- Banana - 1995 - Euroban organizza una campagna di pressione sulla Commissione della Comunità Europea affinché sostenga le banane del commercio equo e solidale (vedi "Euroban campaign" )
- Banana - August 1995 - FIAN decides to make a protest against "The forceful Eviction of the workers on the banana plantations of Tacamiche, Honduras" (from FIAN-Hotline)
- Flowers - March 1995 - The German Association FIAN, together with the Columbian Association CACTUS, organize a campaign in Germany, to ensure better conditions for workers in the flower industry in Columbia
(see "La Campana de flores en Alemania") (FIAN-CACTUS, Germania)
- Toys -February 1996 - The Association of English Industrial Toy-makers agrees to the Consumers' request to adopt a Code of Conduct (see "Toy companies bow to consumer").
(The text of the Code of Conduct can be found in the section "Codes of conduct")
- Toys - 1995 - A few Hong Kong groups launch a campaign to force the Toy-making enterprises adopt a Code for the Safety of the workers (see "Letter of Hong Kong Groups" )