Chevron Nigeria Limited’s Security Contractor G4S owes hundreds of ex-staff millions of naira in unpaid gratuity. The company denies current staff union membership rights
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Kenya’s Opaque Procurement Deals: The Case of G4S
By: Jackie Wahome / Kenya
The opaqueness of public procurement may be losing Kenya much needed tax revenues that would greatly ease the tax burden on ordinary Kenyans.
Mystery of G4S and its prison stranglehold
By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA
The company controversially continues to bag huge contracts despite dramas and scandals in the correctional facilities it runs in South Africa and the United Kingdom.
THE FINANCIALS OF THE BIDDING WAR AT G4S
By: Anrike Visser / Myanmar
G4S has been subject to an intense takeover bid process in the last few months. It started in October with a hostile takeover bid from GardaWorld
Basra: “We Live in the Largest Oil Field in the World, Yet We Suffer from Poverty”
“My daughter’s health has deteriorated, and she cannot walk, and the problem of shortness of breath has become insufferable for her…
Unclear exit from G4S by two Danish business people
By: Nils Mulvad / Denmark
In 2004, two Danish businessmen, Lars Nørby Johansen and Jørgen Philip-Sørensen, were the main forces behind the establishment
Et skrantende Falck skabte sikrings-giganten G4S – hvorefter danskerne forsvandt og firmaet blev et monster
By: Nils Mulvad / Denmark
To danske erhvervsfolk, Lars Nørby Johansen og Jørgen Philip-Sørensen, var hovedkræfterne bag …
البصرة : “نعيش داخل أكبر حقل نفطي في العالم ونعاني من الفقر”
“تدهورت صحة ابنتي وهي لا تستطيع المشي، وأصبحت مشكلة ضيق التنفس شبه مستعصية عندها، وما يثقل كاهلي أكثر هو انعدام الخدمات الصحية والأدوية في البلدة”… من يحرم سكان البصرة حقوقهم؟
Sindicalizarse, el riego de perder el empleo en G4S
By: Pilar Puentes / Colombia
“Vea, él denunció una munición perdida y en lugar de empezar una investigación por eso lo que hizo la empresa fue despedirlo.
G4S company scan
By: David Ollivier de Leth / NLD
On behalf of the Private Security Network, SOMO investigated a number of financial aspects concerning British multinational security services
G4S MALAWI WORKERS SILENTLY SUFFER ABUSE
By: Gregory Gondwe / Malawi
One night in March 2017, Kondwani Banda (not real name), a security officer for G4S Malawi, got badly injured when he tried to stop a group
EMPLOYEES ACCUSE G4S INDIA OF EXPLOITATION
By: Varsha Torgalkar / India
“I have been working for 12 hours, from 7 pm to 7 am daily, as a private security guard. I work 30 days in a row without any days off. After 30 days
Te losse handjes
Privatiseringen hebben het lot van migranten in handen van commerciële bedrijven gelegd. Een spoor van schandalen is het gevolg. Nu trekt beveiligingsfirma G4S zich terug.
G4S: the EU’s preferred security contractor
By: Nikolaj Nielsen / EU
Almost a decade has gone by since the European Parliament cut ties with the world’s largest security provider, the British multinational security services company G4S.
G4S runt eerste ‘humanitaire gevangenissen’: is dat wel een goed idee?
By: Ruben Brugnera / Belgium
Sinds kort telt België twee ‘transitiehuizen’. Goedkoper op de korte termijn, maar op lange termijn lijken de kosten hoger.
Hård melding: “Sandsynligt, at G4S bliver solgt fra og ekskluderet fra investeringsuniverset”
By: Johan Christensen / Denmark
Flere danske pensionskasser genovervejer deres investering i sikringsgiganten G4S, som den norske oliefond har
Pensionskasser splittede efter dialogmøder med G4S
By: Johan Christensen / Denmark
PKA har besluttet at sælge fra og ekskludere G4S, mens Pædagogernes Pensionskasse holder fast trods sag om brud på menneskerettigheder
G4S-chefer må forklare sig på investormøder
By: Johan Christensen / Denmark
Det dansk-britiske sikkerhedsfirma G4S har måttet stille med både investor-relation-chefen og lobbyistchefen ved en-til-en-møder med institutionelle investorer for at forklare sig om kritisable forhold for selskabets ansatte i Qatar og Forenede Arabiske Emirater.
MP Pension sortlister G4S-aktien efter afsløring af ansattes forhold i Mellemøsten
By: Johan Christensen / Denmark
Risikoen, for at den dansk-britiske sikkerhedskoncern G4S medvirker til systematiske overtrædelse af menneskerettighederne i Qatar og De Forenede Arabiske Emirater, får nu den danske pensionskasse MP Pension til at reagere.
G4S abandons bid to keep running Brook House migrant detention centre
By: Phil Miller / UK
Torture victim was detained at a G4S-run immigration centre for almost a year despite serious concerns he would take his own life, inspectors have warned.
Inspectors slam detention of torture victim at G4S centre
By: Phil Miller / UK
Torture victim was detained at a G4S-run immigration centre for almost a year despite serious concerns he would take his own life, inspectors have warned.
Les maisons de transition, une campagne de com pour G4S?
By: Aubry Touriel / Belgium
Après des centres pour réfugiés et sans-abri, le géant de la sécurité G4S exploite désormais des maisons de transition en Belgique. Première étape d’une privatisation inavouée ? Le ministère de la Justice refuse d’expliquer le choix de cet opérateur.
The £25 Million Migrant Wage Gap Scandal
By: Phil Miller / UK
Migrants working for £1 per hour in detention centres feel they are being treated like “slaves”. VICE data reveals just how much they have been underpaid.
Prison Company Stalls Court Actions
By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA
British multinational security company G4S wants the high court in Pretoria to suppress evidence that could reveal widespread torture and abuse of prisoners at its Mangaung prison in Bloemfontein.
Tortured Mangaung Prisoners Seek Justice
By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA
British security firm G4S, which runs Bloemfontein’s Mangaung prison, has denied lawyers access to a prisoner who claims to have been shot in the head with a rubber bullet by a warder.
G4S Snared By Torture Allegations At Bloemfontein Jail
By: Ruth Hopkins / ZA
Inmates say they were given electric shocks and forcibly injected at the multinational security company’s Mangaung Correctional Centre, writes Ruth Hopkins.
Immigration centres accused of slavery over £1-an-hour pay
By: Phil Miller / UK
Immigration detainees have been short-changed of £5 million a year by being paid £1 an hour instead of the minimum wage for work they did while in removal centres, it has been claimed.
Inside the detention industry
By: Phil Miller / UK
Over the past quarter-century, in the shadows of British society, the incarceration of refugees and other migrants has boomed. In the early 1990s, the Home Office had just a few hundred cells for holding people who were about to be deported.
The national shame that is healthcare in UK immigration detention
By: Phil Miller / UK
Four years ago G4S was involved in the unlawful killing of an immigration detainee called Jimmy Mubenga. Now they’re winning NHS contracts to care for detainees.
TRUE SCALE OF CAPTIVE MIGRANT LABOUR REVEALED
By: Phil Miller / UK
Companies are potentially saving millions by paying asylum-seekers just £1 an hour to do essential jobs inside their detention centres, an investigation by Corporate Watch has found.