makeITfair report reveals violations of workers’ rights in game console and portable music players manufacturing in China. This is the first study on working conditions in this specific sub-sector. makeITfair’s new report ‘Playing with Labour…
The mobile phone industry is often presented as a clean, unproblematic industry, but makeITfair’s new report ‘Silenced to Deliver’ shows that this is not the case. Workers’ rights in Asian mobile phone factories are severely…
In a joint statement, Bread for All and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior address GeSi and EICC regarding their weak responses to the ‘One Year Follow Up Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic…
The American NGO As You Sow is successful in its effort to push Best Buy, the largest US electronics retailers to offer free take back of electronic waste in more than 10 of its US…
A year after the launch of the “High Tech – No Rights?” campaign, Bread for All, the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund, and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) publish a new study on working…
The new MacBook Air – the thinnest notebook computer on the planet -is a strong entry in the race to build a green PC. As a mercury and arsenic free laptop it exceeds European Standards…
Rising pressure from NGO’s and growing customer unrest could seriously harm Apple’s brand. Yet the company is doing little to improve relations with these groups.
Amsterdam, 15 October 2007 – Apple’s iPhone contains hazardous chemicals and materials, according to the results of scientific tests commissioned by Greenpeace. The insight into the components of the iPhone is presented in the Greenpeace…
