In Africa, hundreds of millions of broken mobile telephones end up in landfills every year. The consequences are obvious: not only does this result in pollution and health hazards, but also a loss of valuable…
A survey commissioned by Greenpeace shows that the majority of consumers think that phone manufacturers release too many new models. Almost half said that they agreed that companies should take more responsibility to support recycling….
The Samsung conglomerate has medieval working conditions behind modern technology, Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, summed up in her Huffington Post blog on 10 August, as she criticized the world’s largest technology company and…
South Korean authorities have repeatedly complied with Samsung Electronics Co.’s requests and refused to release critical data about chemicals that could be used to prove the work-relatedness of the illnesses of at least six former…
The International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) has been mapping trade unions to illustrate the diversity of organised labour across the world. Their work highlights the specific political, economic and legal context of Trade…
As of 1 August 2016, SHARPS has marked the 300th day of a sit-in that the advocacy group began on 7 October 2015, after Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. walked out of negotiations with them and imposed…
Companies that use gold in their supply chains face legal and reputational risks due to the enormous amount of gold that is mined illegally. Research carried out by Verité shows that large amounts of gold…
After a notification by the Labour secretary of Government that IT companies are bound by the same labour laws that govern other industries and their employees are free to form labour unions, software employees respond…
The Thomson Reuters Foundation published an investigative report about the illegal mining of mica in India where children, some not older than five, work alongside adults in dire circumstances. The article mentions the electronics industry…
After an inspection of containers in the port of Laem Chabang in Thailand, Japan has been ordered to take back over 190 tonnes of hazardous e-waste that it had illegally exported. Inspectors opened eight shipping…