Rivers running thick with pollution, cancer villages downstream of industrial parks, poisoned crops and sickened babies. The reality of water pollution in China is one of the country’s biggest tragedies. And the true extent of…
A recently published photo booklet gives a strong impression of how communities are affected by platinum and palladium mining. This booklet is one of the follow up activities of the research report on palladium and…
Hewlett Packard and Dell have recently been removed from the equity fund of the Dutch ASN Bank. The ASN Bank Special Investment Criteria define which companies are accepted in the ASN Bank equity fund. Companies…
Greenpeace first released its ‘Guide to Greener Electronics’ in August 2006. The guide ranks the 18 top manufacturers of personal computers, mobile phones, TVs and games consoles according to their policies on toxic chemicals, recycling…
Chinese battery producer Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd is under fire by Chinese and international labour groups for failing to be a decent employer. Year-long struggles of (ex-) workers with cadmium related health problems have…
With a shift in recycling and production of consumer electronics, the E-waste problem can be addressed. The ‘E-waste policy paper’, published today by SOMO, provides proposals for policy and action.Reports about the piling up of…
One of every two mobile phones is manufactured in China. In 2008, makeITfair published a report about poor working conditions at factories that mobile phone companies source from. One year later, two of the factories…
When centrally controlled economic systems collapsed and the markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened up to foreign capital, most of the world’s big electronics companies started to invest in the region. How did…
Despite the independent union movement’s continued push for greater freedom of association, major obstacles to achieving this right persist, including corruption in Mexican labour institutions and endemic obstruction practices by employers and government. In the…
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate change solution on the table in Copenhagen and in the halls of Congress. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or…