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EU Commission, Parliament respond to ‘blood birch’ scandal – now the Council must act
16.05.2025 Wood sanctions must be expanded to tackle the oligarch-linked trade
Press release: Blood-stained birch
29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn
EU finally bans torture-stained Belarusian furniture trade
15.07.2024 The decision will shut down a supply chain long marred by human rights abuses and torture
Leading German sports retailer linked to rights abuses overseas, as German government looks set to kill EU ethical supply chain law
06.02.2024 CSDDD under threat from lobbying by German industry associations
The Belarusian furniture industry is the backbone of Lukashenko’s regime. So why hasn’t the EU sanctioned it yet?
19.10.2023 Demanding Belarusian sanctions
Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West
11.03.2022 Putin’s cronies are behind major logging firms and wood exporters
Russia’s timber oligarchs
11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms
Indirect supply chains pose major deforestation risk for global cocoa industry
26.03.2020 Study emphasises threats major firms face in not having a full picture of suppliers
UK-based Equatorial Palm Oil under fire for alleged malpractice in Liberia
31.01.2020 Report calls for due diligence law to monitor UK-registered firms operating overseas
Illegal deforestation and child labour are the real horrors at Halloween
29.10.2019 Increasing global appetites for chocolate during the holiday period will benefit a cocoa industry that has failed to reform for two decades
