Tibetans in China’s Sichuan provinces are seeing and feeling the impact of a large lithium mine on their environment. The land they worship is threatened and the river their animals drink from is poisoned. The…
A recent article from Garrett Brown outlines the failures of CSR audits to identify labour rights violations and to remedy clearly visible health and safety hazards. While billions of dollars have been spent on the…
A new investigative report from the New York Times reveals the wide range of incentives that the local government of Zhengzhou, China, has provided to attract Foxconn. Zhengzhou’s government has helped finance the construction of…
The U.S. non-profit organisation Green America is inviting people to sign their open letter to Samsung’s management, to tell them to stop poisoning workers and to protect their workers’ rights. Green America cites cases of…
The Washington Post has recently published the third instalment of its series on the human toll of the fast-growing demand for lithium-ion batteries. Having already published articles about cobalt mining in the Democratic Republic of…
With an interactive map that shows the different materials, suppliers and manufacturing locations involved in making their phone, Fairphone shows what serious efforts towards transparency look like. The company explains that all known suppliers to…
A newly released research report from Greenpeace Germany and the Öko-Institute gives a comprehensive overview of the resource related issues of smartphone and tablet production, use and recycling. The report, titled ‘Resource Efficiency in the…
December 8 marked the third Greenwich Symposium on Responsible Public Procurement. Delegates from civil society organisations, academics and procurement practitioners gathered to discuss ‘Modern Slavery, Human Trafficking and Human Rights Risks in the Global Supply…
The Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition has released a new report card about US retailers’ safer chemicals programs this week. The coalition investigated to what extent companies like Amazon, Costco, Target and Walmart are making…
After the recent publication of an article that detailed the violations of workers’ rights in Samsung factories in Malaysia, Samsung has announced new Migrant Worker Guidelines. In the article from the Guardian, Samsung announced that…