Business ethics
Congo, My Precious. The Curse of the coltan mines in Congo
| RT Documentary | The Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa is one of the world’s most resource-rich countries. A wide range of rare minerals can be found here in abundance, all commanding high prices in world commodity markets. Diamonds…
- 2017
- Business ethics, Power abuse
Golden Gamble. Gold mining in the Philippines, a dirty business
| RT Documentary | – The use of child labour in the Philippine’s Paracale, or ‘Goldtown’, is widespread – Extracting gold involves diving into mud-filled shafts and using toxic mercury – Poverty and lack of alternative jobs force people into…
- 2017
- Business ethics
Greensill, Gupta and Cameron: what went wrong
| Financial Times | The story of Greensill Capital’s rise and fall has everything: investment banks, opaque finance, private jets, trophy mansions and the biggest British lobbying scandal in a generation, involving former prime minister David Cameron. The Financial Times…
Burkina Faso is experiencing a gold rush
| Journeyman Pictures | For at nearly 50,000 euros per kilo, gold remains the eternal symbol of wealth. In Burkina Faso, artisanal mines are springing up to take advantage of this gold rush. With children as young as 11 working…
- 2021
- Business ethics
The price of gold: Chinese mining in Ghana
| The Guardian | Ghana has had a gold rush but here, Afua Hirsch discovers how Chinese immigrants are profiting from industrialising the country’s small-scale mining industry. She sees for herself that, for the many locals who chance losing life…
- 2013
- Business ethics
Gangsters, Golf and Greenbacks
| BBC | An African construction giant mired in debt and on the verge of collapsing hires in two highly-paid British bosses to try and bring it back from the brink. Eighteen months later the business is bust, hundreds of…
The Money Stone: Underground with a child gold miner in Ghana
| BBC | Alongside the vast gold fields of Ghana are thousands of illegal mines or galamsey, where unskilled miners dream of hitting the big time. These mines rely mainly on children who abandon an education in an attempt to…
- 2020
- Business ethics
Cashing in on Covid: Ghana hospital workers sell PPE for personal profit
| BBC | More than 2,000 medical workers in Ghana have been infected by coronavirus since the outbreak began. The country has faced a severe lack of essential protective equipment like face shields, masks and suits. Our investigation with Anas…
Profits before Pupils?
| BBC Panorama | More than 7,000 schools in England have been turned into academies and are now run by private trusts. The people in charge are not supposed to profit from children’s education, but what’s to stop them from…
- 2018
- Business ethics, Power abuse
Tomatoes and greed – the exodus of Ghana’s farmers
| DW Documentary | What do tomatoes have to do with mass migration? Tomatoes are a poker chip in global trade policies. Subsidized products from the EU, China and elsewhere are sold at dumping prices, destroying markets and livelihoods in…
- 2020
- Business ethics