The Public-Private Alliance (PPA) for Responsible Minerals Trade is being launched as a joint effort of the U.S. State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, non-governmental organisations and companies/industry organisations to take on this…
Within the global framework of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), ChemSec has carried out an in-depth study on information on chemicals in electronic products. ChemSec presents the current situation for information exchange…
This GreenDelta study, commissioned by the Belgium government, analyses the social, socio-economic, and environmental impacts of an ecolabeled notebook along its entire life cycle. The electronic sector is often criticised for bad working conditions, high…
As of September 20th,the Clean Clothes campaign Belgium (French speaking part) has a new name: ‘achACT – Actions Consommateurs Travailleurs’ or ‘PurchaseAct – Actions Consumers Workers’. This new name is linked to the broadening of…
Phone Story is an educational game about the dark side of your favorite smart phone. Follow your phone’s journey around the world and fight the market forces in a spiral of planned obsolescence. Phone Story…
Some 40,000 men, women, and children are being held against their will in forced labour centers all over Vietnam. writes Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released early September. They are forced by the…
ASIAN LABOUR UPDATE (ALU) is a quarterly news bulletin on labour issues in southern and eastern Asia. It is prepared and published by the Asia Monitor Resource Centre Ltd (AMRC), a non-profit, pro-labour, non-governmental organization…
Precarious jobs and insufficient wages are common in the mobile phone industry in India. These are the findings of a new report launched today by the makeITfair campaign. Phony Equality – Labour standards of mobile…
International human rights organisations are dismayed by the outcome of this fundamental legal case against a human rights defender. The settlement which concluded the legal procedures does not do justice to the legitimate role of…
In the report titled ‘The Other Side of Apple,’ published January 20th, 2011, a coalition of environmental organizations brought to light problems of pollution and poisoning in Apple’s supply chain in China. Yet to this…