Today, the Joint NGO position paper ‘Breaking the links between natural resources and conflict : The case for EU regulation’ was published. The initiative for this paper and lobby was taken by Global Witness, CCFD-Terre…
Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) is not respecting workers’ rights in India. Cividep India and the GoodElectronics Network tried to engage with NSN but found the company unresponsive. This summer, talks between the workers’ union and…
A new undercover investigation by China Labor Watch (CLW) has revealed a series of ethical and legal labor violations in a factory in Wuxi, China owned by U.S. electronics manufacturer Jabil Circuit that is currently…
February this year, a complaint was filed against Samsung France accusing the company of misleading commercial practices by promoting a code of conduct for the treatment of the workers who make Samsung’s products that Samsung…
In February 2012, Apple was the first electronics company to join the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a multi-stakeholder initiative (MSI) created in the clothing sector. After eighteen months, FLA has not convinced civil society organisations…
What do Kindle, Fridge Magnetic Toys, Zippity, Learn & Groove Toys, Tag , Scout, Leapster, Didj, ClickStart, My First Computer, LeapFrog, and LeapPad have in common? A very meager general D- score on the Free2Work…
Existing approaches are clearly failing to combat poverty and human rights abuses in the electronics industry. Despite the guidance provided by the UN Guiding Principles of Business and Human Rights, governments are failing in their…
Foxconn and Apple are failing to live up to their promises to reduce the working hours at Foxconn factories in China to the legal maximum without workers suffering a loss in income. Those commitments were…
The European Commission has published three Sector Guides on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. One Guide is for specifically for ICT companies, the other two for employment & recruitment agencies,…
Apple distanziert sich von seinem langgedienten Zulieferer Foxconn. Sein günstiges iPhone wird das Unternehmen beim Foxconn-Konkurrenten Pegatron anfertigen lassen. Doch nicht die Medienaufmerksamkeit nach drei weiteren Selbstmorden bei Foxconn hat den IT-Giganten zum Umdenken bewegt,…