E-waste is a growing problem and electronic companies are contributing to it because it is getting increasingly complex to repair mobile devices. Together with iFixit, Greenpeace ranked 40 different smartphones, tablets and laptops based on…
Microsoft and the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights have agreed on a five year partnership to “better predict, analyze and respond to critical human rights situations,”. The software company and the UN will…
A collective of CSOs and trade unions is calling on the German company INFINEON to stop union busting and to reinstate the president of the union for Infineon Technologies Melaka workers. We, the 55 undersigned…
KnowTheChain released its first ranking of ICT companies with regard to their efforts in mitigating forced labour in their supply chains. For the twenty global ICT companies that were evaluated by KnowTheChain, the average score was…
Consumer demand for small devices has helped create a system where products are recycled via shredding, which is very much what it sounds like. Gadgets are essentially pulverized down to their smallest bits, after which…
Rankabrand has compared and ranked 19 electronics brands like Apple, Dell, HP, HTC, Huawei, Nintendo, Samsung. The questions used for ranking are categorised into three areas: Labour Conditions and Human Rights, Climate Change, and Ecology….
AMSTERDAM, 2 oktober 2014 – Drie toonaangevende elektronicamerken zijn het afgelopen jaar een stuk duurzamer geworden dan voorheen. Microsoft, Dell en Asus zijn zich gaan inzetten voor duurzame tinwinning in Indonesië en zijn daarnaast transparanter…
On July 7, 24 activists from Milieudefensie, the Dutch chapter of Friends of the Earth International, left their handprints on the front wall of Microsofts headquarter in the Netherlands. Microsoft refuses to engage in fair…
Civil society organisations from India and around the world are highly concerned about the recent spree of retrenching electronics workers in the Sriperumbudur industrial area in Tamil Nadu, India. The trend was set when Nokia…
Forced overtime, strenuous shifts during peak periods, few days off each month, wages lower than a living wage, and militant management; these are the outcomes of an investigation into Chinese IT manufacturers by six European…