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= Asia = == Australia == * http://www.choice.com.au/ - Australia's oldest consumer empowerment effort * http://guide.ethical.org.au - An ethical consumer guide and more * http://ethicalconsumer.org.au/ - Ethical Consumers Australia (ECA) nonprofit association has various functions and projects. They have made [http://goodonyou.eco/ The Good on You App] which is available for Android and iOS for the clothing shopping consumer. * http://www.ethicalliving.net.au/ Providing ethically sourced ethnical handicrafted via webshop with principles of fair trade. * http://www.sustainabilityportal.net/ an australian platform for ethical fashion & textiles. A resource for industry and consumers alike. ''Registered companies searchable in Internet?'' '''YES''' *http://www.search.asic.gov.au/gns001.html [[Australian Securities and Investments Commission]] Limited company search on-line. == China == === [[Workers' rights]] in China === Trade unions are forbidden by law in China according to the Finnish media. == Hong Kong == * [http://www.fairtradehk.org/ Fairtrade Hong Kong] == India == * [http://fairtradeindia.org Fairtrade India] == Japan == * [http://now.ohah.net/en/Earth_Reforesting_System "Earth Reforesting System"] - not sure if this is going to work, but, at least they started with mediawiki, so maybe they are just waiting for others to chip in, just like Consumerium did. Mostly in Japanese. == New Zealand == * [http://fairtrade.org.nz/ Fairtrade New Zealand] == Pakistan == ''Registered companies searchable in Internet?'' '''YES''' * http://www.pakboi.gov.pk/html/all_companies.html [[The Pakistan Board of Investment]] - Companies, searchable online by [[name]], registered [[capital]], [[CEO]] and other options == South Korea == * Fairtrade organisation: [http://ekf.or.kr/main/index.php Fairtrade South-Korea] '''[[Workers' rights]]''' in South Korea Apparently the workers' situation in South Korea is terrible. There are reports of trade union activists commiting suicide to attract attention to the [[workers' rights]] situation in South Korea. see [http://www.kctu.org/ Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) web site] for more information South Korea has probably the longest workweeks in all the developed world with 6-day weeks with 44 hours average working time. There have been rumours that South Korea will be switching to 5-day working week in 2005 but there is yet no confirmation on whether this is true. == Turkmenistan == [[w:Turkmenistan]] has a sizeable [[w:forced labour]] problem in their [[w:cotton]] industry. -----
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