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2009

The leaflet  "Dyskryminacja, mobbing, molestowanie seksualne kobiet w super- i hipermarketach" is dealing with mobbing, discrimination on the ground of sex, gender and sexual harassment. There is a very low awareness on gender discrimination as well as about rights of women in this area. This leaflet has to fill this gap and empower women.

The leaflet is available in Polish

 

 

"Make IT green". What do you do when your mobile phone stops working? Or your computer breaks down? Every year, we throw away up to 50 million tonnes of unwanted electronic waste – e-waste. That’s enough to fill one million trucks that would stretch half way around the entire globe if they were parked end to end.
 
The consumer guide is available:
 
 
 
 
The publication titled „Through Their Eyes. Images of of the economic situation of women from developing countries of Central Europe, the Balkans and Central Asia” have been written by  Anita Seibert and project coordinator Ewa Pintera with the support of researchers. The publication relied heavily on EU, UNDP, UN data, and information prepared other organisations dealing with the region of Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Every chapter has been consulted (or at lease sent for consultation) with KARAT members organisation from the country the given chapter referred too. The publication has also included number of photographs from the exhibition organised within the same project.  
 
The publication is available in English.
 
 

2008

"Dobrze uszyte?" is an information leaflet presenting to the Polish consumers basic problems and concepts related to the working conditions in garment industry in short and concise way. It introduces the problem (eg. complicated and dispersed supply chains and main labour rights violations), explains ideas related to social responsibility of companies (eg. CSR strategies, social audits, etc), encourages consumers to join social campaigns and shows them ways to do so.
 
The leaflet is available in Polish:
the first part                           the second part
 
 
"China calling: make IT fair." Chances are that your mobile phone was made in China. Half of the world’s mobile phones are made there – as well as huge numbers of computers, MP3 players and game consoles.
 
The consumer guide is available:
in English          in Polish            in Hungarian            in Czech
 
 
The leaflet "When working in supermarket, you have a right…" describes the rights women employees of the super/hypermarkets in Poland have. The gender perspective was shown and underlined as up to 90 % of supermarkets employees are women.  
 
The leaflet is available in Polish.
 

The folder "Kobiety o swojej pracy w supermarketach" describes in short identified thanks to the research "Situation of women in super/hypermarkets in Poland" forms and areas of the employees rights violations.

The folder is available in Polish.
 
"Czy wiesz już wszystko o Olimpiadzie?" is a leaflet informing about working conditions in factories in Asia before Olympics in Beijing in 2008. It illustrates violations of labour rights of workers producing for the main global sportswear brands as well as those manufacturing the goods with the logo of Beijing Olympics for the purposes of International Olympic Committee (IOC). The leaflet encourages to join PlayFair2008 campaign. A part of the leaflet is postcard with an appeal addressed to the president of IOC.

The leaflet is available in Polish.

English version, published by PlayFair2008 campaign is available here.
 

2007

KARAT is regularly publishing the newsletter of the project: "FairPlay in sporting goods production". It contains a variety of articles related to the working conditions in garment industry as well as social responsibility of companies and consumers. The newsletter informs about current campaign actions undertaken by project activists aimed at consumers’ education and activisation. It also updates Polish readers on international campaigns. In 2007 and 2008 5 issues of the newsletter have been printed, another four are planned for 2009.
 
All published in Polish, available at the project’s website: www.kobietypraca.org/fairplay
 
 
"Would you like a phone made of gold?"
The makeITfair campaign is calling on big brand electronics companies to take responsibility for improving the appalling social and environmental conditions in the mineral mines around the world.
 
The consumer guide is available:  
 in English     in Polish       in Hungarian          in Czech
 
 
"Find out the true cost of a phone call" in this consumer guide. Now the makeITfair campaign is calling on young people across Europe to help improve the lives of workers in the developing world who make our electronic dreams come true. Together, we can make IT fair for people everywhere!
 
The consumer guide is available:
in English      in Polish          in Hungarian          in Czech

 

KARAT together with its partners in the project funded by European Structural Funds “Gender mainstreaming in the labour market institutions” issued a brochure “Gender Equality in the Labour Market”. The publication aims at introducing the EU standards related to gender equality in the labour market and at presenting the ways of implementing the gender perspective into the projects on employment issues to the staff of the institutions and NGOs dealing with labour market.
 
The brochure is available in Polish.

 

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