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News / August 17, 2016

Dutch start-up recycles one million discarded telephones from Africa

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…

News / August 17, 2016

Phone companies release too many new models, say consumers

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….

News / August 12, 2016

Global labor leader criticizes Samsung for No Union policy

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…

News / August 12, 2016

Samsung and South Korea keep occupational-disease cluster victims from key data

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…

News / August 10, 2016

Getting informed about unions is key to engaging workers in global supply chains

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…

News / August 10, 2016

SHARPS’s Sit-in Marks the 300th Day

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…

News / August 10, 2016

The Nexus of Illegal Gold Mining and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains

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…

News / August 9, 2016

Indian IT workers respond to government announcement on unionization

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…

News / August 9, 2016

Blood mica: new investigative report on illegal mica mining in India

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…

News / August 8, 2016

Japan to take back 196 tonnes of hazardous e-waste

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…

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