Countries of the world

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    This page is for accumulating country information of specific usefullness for Consumerium Services. Also this page serves the purpose of forming a Country template for use in Content Wiki once we figure out what information can be reliably collected.

    See w:List of countries for general information on countries of the world.


    Here be the current skeleton


    Africa

    Kenya

    Mauritania

    w:Mauritania has the highest prevalence of w:slavery in the world despite passing an anti-slavery law in 2007 after sizable international pressure. Read more in w:Slavery in Mauritania.

    South Africa

    Asia

    Australia

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    China

    Workers' rights in China

    Trade unions are forbidden by law in China according to the Finnish media.

    Hong Kong

    India

    Japan

    • "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

    Pakistan

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    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 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.


    Europe

    Austria

    • Fairtrade organisation: yes

    Belgium

    Czech Republic

    Denmark

    Estonia

    Finland

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    Consumer empowerment efforts in Finland

    Finnish labels

    Reducing, reusing and recycling in Finland

    Getting used things to someone that needs them in Finland

    • https://www.tori.fi/ - an online marketplace that can be used via web or smartphone app.
    • https://vahankaytetty.fi/ - online 2nd hand market. If you want to sell items (mostly clothing) you can send them to vahankaytetty.fi and they take care of selling and mailing the products to the buyers.
    • https://zadaa.co/ - a Finnish online 2nd hand marketplace that works via smartphone app. Also in Denmark and Germany.

    Sharing economy in Finland

    • https://vaatepuu.fi/ is a clothes loaning service, that has been operating since 2013. It has locations in Helsinki, Järvenpää, Tampere, Jyväskylä and Turku.
    • https://www.vaaterekki.com/ - a clothes and jewelry loaning service in Helsinki

    Recycle in Finland

    Wikipedia articles about things in Finland

    France

    Germany

    Inventions: Printing press, intermodal public transport route planner

    Ireland

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    Italy

    Latvia

    Lithuania

    Luxemburg

    Netherlands

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES

    Norway

    Portugal

    Slovakia

    Sweden

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? YES


    Switzerland

    United Kingdom

    Recycling in the UK

    North and Middle America

    Canada

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? Not determined

    Haiti

    Registered companies searchable in Internet? Not determined, highly unlikely

    Ecological questions

    Mexico

    USA

    South America

    Brazil


    External links