https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedish retail giant H&M on Tuesday signed an agreement promising better labour rights for 1.6 million garment workers at its suppliers' factories. https://www.thelocal.se/20151103/swedens-hm-signs-pledge-for-textile-workers Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:50:57 +0100 swedens-hm-signs-pledge-for-textile-workers Sweden's international retail giant H&M has defended itself following allegations that workers are hired on insecure temporary contracts in some of its overseas factories. https://www.thelocal.se/20150923/swedish-hm-defends-cambodian-factory-claims Wed, 23 Sep 2015 12:54:20 +0200 swedish-hm-defends-cambodian-factory-claims Organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized, among others, Swedish retailer H&M over alleged child labour and poor work conditions in its Cambodian factories, in a report published on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20150312/human-rights-group-hits-out-at-hm-over-child-labour Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:22:07 +0100 human-rights-group-hits-out-at-hm-over-child-labour After an investigative Swedish TV programme claimed H&M paid “low” factory wages in Cambodia, the clothing giant has blasted the show and the claims, explaining that they are in fact working hard to raise local salaries. https://www.thelocal.se/20121024/44016 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:35:00 +0200 44016 Swedish clothes giant H&M has been accused of using suppliers in Cambodia that underpay their textile workers. But the company counters the workers have unions and collective agreements. https://www.thelocal.se/20121024/44010 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:16:00 +0200 44010 H&M has been criticized along with several other major clothing makers for how they treat workers in Cambodia, where hundreds of employees at a plant run by the Swedish fashion giant mysteriously passed out in August. https://www.thelocal.se/20120209/39006 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:42:00 +0100 39006 Over 200 Cambodian workers fainted this week in a factory which manufacturers clothes for Swedish fashion giant H&M. https://www.thelocal.se/20111028/37006 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:06:00 +0200 37006 The 63-year-old Swedish man convicted for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, will serve his 6.5 year sentence after a Cambodian court confirmed his conviction. https://www.thelocal.se/20100813/28350 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:30:00 +0200 28350 A 63-year-old Swedish man convicted and sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for sexually assaulting three boys in Cambodia, believes that he will soon be a free man after handing over $11,000 in bribes. https://www.thelocal.se/20100811/28302 Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:08:00 +0200 28302 Recently declassified documents reveal that Sweden was among the countries the United States looked to for help in an effort to bring Pol Pot, the late leader of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge movement, to trial. https://www.thelocal.se/20090803/21064 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:20:00 +0200 21064 An appeals court in Sweden has reduced the sentence of the father of a now six-year-old girl whom he abducted and took to Cambodia, hiding the girl for more than a year. https://www.thelocal.se/20090213/17572 Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:37:00 +0100 17572 The father of Alicia Elfversson, the six year-old Swedish girl who he abducted and took to Cambodia, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison by a district court in Gothenburg. https://www.thelocal.se/20081014/14956 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:31:00 +0200 14956 An Australia-based NGO, Sisha was behind the dramatic rescue of 6-year-old Swedish girl Alicia Elfversson in Cambodia. Alicia, abducted by her father a year ago, returned home to Sweden on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20080725/13272 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:10:00 +0200 13272 An independent Cambodian group investigating the Khmer Rouge genocide has received 400 kilograms (880 pounds) of documents on the brutal regime from Sweden, its director said Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20070213/6386 Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:22:00 +0100 6386