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…
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…
A new report by China Labor Watch (CLW), ‘Tragedies of Globalization: The Truth Behind Electronics Sweatshops’, points at on-going labour rights violations at ten Chinese electronics factories that supply finished manufactured electronic products to multinational…
Four supplier factories of game consoles and MP3 players (supplying to Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Philips and Sony) have been recently re-examined by makeITfair and made significant improvements. Some important issues remain however: the wage increases…
Brandirectory publishes annual overviews of the world’s most valuable brands. The electronics industry is well represented in the 2010 report. Google ranks first and Microsoft third in the Brandirectory. The top 25 includes consumer electronics…
Microsoft states to be very concerned about the report by the National Labor Committee (NLC) alleging that conditions at a factory operated by KYE in Dongguan, China, were adversely impacting workers. KYE assembles and packages…
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…
Google, IBM and Microsoft should use their influence in Washington to help get a strong international climate deal in Copenhagen, says Greenpeace. Google, Microsoft and IBM are amongst the largest and most influential of US…
Electronics giants Microsoft and Nintendo have come bottom in the last three Greenpeace rankings for the greenest electronics products makeITfair thinks its time that these multinational monoliths take the lead in putting the planet and…