European companies often impact the lives of people across the globe. Yet they are not often made accountable for their actions on foreign soil. In many cases, European companies allow for and exacerbate human rights…
Today, makeITfair campaigners in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden will hand over thousands of signatures to mobile phone network operators such as KPN, T-Mobile, Tele2 and Vodafone to show that there is a consumer…
In May, 2010, a group of workers of Jabil Circuit in Mexico filed a legal suit against the company, in search of leveled wage rates. The workers disagreed with Jabil paying technicians different wages for…
The producers of the documentary film ‘Blood in the mobile’ are focused on creating awareness about the link between conflict minerals and our mobile phones. Their mission is to make the manufacturers of mobile phones…
This policy brief by the Dutch Centre for research on multinational corporation SOMO focuses on the working conditions in Thailand’s hard disk drive industry and is meant for stakeholders that are interested to get to…
In September 2010, Cividep (India) published a report raising concerns about working conditions in mobile phone manufacturing plants at the Nokia campus of the Telecom Special Economic Zone in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, drawing on interviews…
The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) is proceeding with the preparations for an ambitious programme fro the global electronics sector. With an initial focus on China, IDH aims at contributing to improving the working conditions of…
Recently, the ILO Better Work Programme released the executive summary of a scoping study into the feasibility of a Better Work programme in the electronics industry. Leading brands and suppliers expressed little immediate demand for…
Friday 3 December, the makeITfair campaign will take off in Belgium. makeITfair Belgium will give a press conference and release a report and a leaflet.Friday 3 December, the makeITfair campaign will take off in Belgium….
Today, a short film featuring coltan mining in Congo for mobile phones, is released by the European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ). European companies impact the lives of people all over the world. While these…