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News / January 25, 2013

The global impact of e-waste: Addressing the challenge

Electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) is currently the largest growing waste stream. It is hazardous, complex and expensive to treat in an environmentally sound manner, and there is a general lack of legislation or enforcement…

News / January 24, 2013

Samsung and SHARPS dialogue over compensation for OHS victims

After six years of campaigns and petitions over 56 occupational-disease deaths at the world’s largest chip maker, SHARPS has agreed to enter dialogue with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. over the question of compensation for the…

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News / January 23, 2013

Foxconn workers in Beijing on strike over end-of-year bonus and pay-rise

January 22nd, over a thousand workers of the “Phase III assembly line” of a Foxconn production site located in the Technological Develop Zone, Daxing District, Beijing, China, went on strike. They assembled at the canteen,…

News / January 23, 2013

Ask if the big smartphone brands tin is linked to ravaging of forests

Samsung and Apple almost certainly use tin in their mobiles that’s come from Bangka Island – where tin mining is ravaging forests and coral reefs, injuring miners and destroying fishermen’s livelihoods. Friends of the Earth…

News / January 21, 2013

New AppleLabor website and blog online

How are the factory workers making Apple products treated? www.AppleLabor.com aims to be a comprehensive online library of research and coverage on the labor conditions faced by Apple’s factory workers.www.AppleLabor.com aims to be a comprehensive online…

News / January 18, 2013

GoodElectronics submission to EICC survey regarding Public Reporting and Electronics Material Issues

EICC is working to improve transparency across the electronics value chain as a step in enhancing implementation of the EICC Code of Conduct. EICC is promoting common and comparable KPIs, and intends to help companies…

News / January 18, 2013

Migrant workers in Malaysian electronics industry face atrocious working conditions

Migrant workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry are heavily indebted by the time they start working because of extortionate fees of recruitment agencies. Migrant workers are paid less, sometimes even only half, of what they were…

Publication / January 1, 2013

1st Electronic Sector Roundtable in India.30th November 2012. Chennai

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Publication / January 1, 2013

Series for Responsible Investor (RI) Engagement: Temporary agency work in the electronics sector

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Publication / January 1, 2013

Outsourcing Labour

Migrant labour rights in Malaysia’s electronics industry
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