Trade unions, individual consumers, labour groups, campaign organisations, academics etc. from all over the world have joined in the protest to condemn the suicidal regime at Foxconn’s Chinese production sites and the still inadequate responses…
This makeITfair study focuses on the supply chain responsibility of major mobile network operators in the Netherlands: KPN, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Tele2. In addition, the report makes a comparison of major mobile network operators in…
This makeITfair study focuses on the supply chain responsibility of major mobile network operators in Finland, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. A growing proportion of consumer electronic products such as mobile phones is manufactured in…
Vodafone will place greater focus on recycling & reusing mobile phones due to SOMO study ‘Fair Phones: it’s your call’, promises the company in its 2009/2010 sustainability report.In its 2009/2010 Sustainability Report, Vodafone writes to…
The European campaign makeITfair is launching a postcard action to urge mobile phone operators like T-Mobile and Vodafone to offer fair and green phones to their customers. They currently offer phones that are manufactured under…
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights may form the common ground between electronics companies and civil society organisations in addressing labour issues such as the excessive use of temporary labour. This is…
Concerned about alarming reports on heavy metal pollution incidents, Chinese environmental organisations have engaged upon an extensive research project, with a specific focus on IT product manufacture-related heavy metal discharge, especially the battery industry relating…
A significant part of the minerals in our electronic devices, especially tin, tantalum and tungsten (3Ts), originate from the Eastern part of the Democratic Republic of DR Congo (DRC). The new makeITfair report – ‘From…
makeITfair releases a new report today that shows that the efforts of European mobile network operators, such as Vodafone and T-Mobile, to improve the social and environmental conditions in the mobile phone supply chain still…
Touch screen manufacturing workers are fighting for basic rights at Young Fast Optoelectronics (YFO) in Taiwan, a company that supplies to Samsung, LG, HTC and Google. YFO manufactured mobile phones are sold by telecom providers…