Of late, the Chinese not-for profit organisation Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), supported by the Swiss NGO Bread for All, released two reports on in-factory labour rights training programmes at two China-based suppliers…
Thousands of signatories joined makeITfair in its call towards mobile phone companies to pay greater attention to social standards in their supply chains.”This campaign, organised by makeITfair, continued to collect more than 7,800 signatures calling…
There are lots of ways to fool environmental inspectors, writes Greenpeace China. Here a look is taken at how factories in China do it. Water pollution is one of China’s most critical environmental problems. Greenpeace…
Over the past year, Greenpeace collected and analysed 25 samples of wastewater discharges and sediments from five industrial sites in the region. These companies at these sites are mainly involved in manufacturing laminates, circuit boards,…
The scramble for minerals did not spark the conflict in eastern Congo, but war profiteering has become the fuel that keeps the region aflame and lies beneath the surface of major regional tensions, notes a…
SOMO research concludes gender equality is far remote from real life as perceived in the supply chain of consumer electronics.The production of virtually all electronic consumer products is characterised by major social, health and ecological…
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…
The Finnish makeITfair campaign is asking Nokia to become the trailblazer in developing ethical mobile phones. So far, over 5’000 people have put their signature under the petition which will handed over to Nokia on…
In December 2007, workers at Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) formed a trade union to better promote the interests of the workers at this plant in Lamphun in the north of Thailand. An initial collective bargaining…
A new publication released today by the GoodElectronics network and the Dutch CSR Platform sets concrete and ambitious recommendations for the electronics sector. ‘Reset’ offers guidance to companies in addressing human rights and environmental issues…