China Labour Watch, a US-based workers’ rights organisation, reports that a worker has died after jumping from a factory window on Saturday. Li Ming, aged 31, jumped to his death from a building in the…
The GoodElectronics network is happy to announce that, through the network’s sub-granting scheme, three of its member organisations will receive financial support for their activities in 2017. Through training, research, advocacy and the creation of…
A study conducted by the environmental NGO IPEN and Vietnam-based Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED), reveals the poor working conditions in Samsung’s Vietnamese smartphone production sites. The study focuses on interviews with 45 workers at two factories…
Apple has faced heavy criticism from the President Donald Trump administration, which demands that it creates jobs in the USA. A report by Jenny Chan and Mark Selden in ‘China’s Worlds’ (2017) looks at Apple’s response to…
According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2017 report our worldwide e-waste rose with 8 procent in de last two years. The report predicts that e-waste will increase an additional 17 percent by 2021 and will…
On December 13, 2017, the supermajority in the 17th Congress and the Senate approved President Rodrigo Duterte’s extension of martial law in Mindanao, Philippines for another year. The decision is far from the promised promotion…
How much do you know about corporations and their impacts? This is an important question that new EU disclosure requirements for corporations will help us being to answer. Watch this video made by ECCJ.
A report released by CGFED and IPEN in November 2017 accuses Samsung of ‘serious’ labour abuses in its Vietnamese smartphone factories. Despite the evidence, Samsung disputes claims of wrongdoing and said the report is different from the…
Samsung has finished construction of a US$600 million research and development center in Ho Chi Minh City. Yet, this comes as a report by Research Center for Gender Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPEN sheds light on…
In August 2016 the European Commission ruled that Apple has to pay 13 billion of taxes to the government of Ireland. Ireland now is forced to collect this money the don’t want. The EC has…