Some 40,000 men, women, and children are being held against their will in forced labour centers all over Vietnam. writes Human Rights Watch (HRW) in a report released early September. They are forced by the…
ASIAN LABOUR UPDATE (ALU) is a quarterly news bulletin on labour issues in southern and eastern Asia. It is prepared and published by the Asia Monitor Resource Centre Ltd (AMRC), a non-profit, pro-labour, non-governmental organization…
Precarious jobs and insufficient wages are common in the mobile phone industry in India. These are the findings of a new report launched today by the makeITfair campaign. Phony Equality – Labour standards of mobile…
International human rights organisations are dismayed by the outcome of this fundamental legal case against a human rights defender. The settlement which concluded the legal procedures does not do justice to the legitimate role of…
In the report titled ‘The Other Side of Apple,’ published January 20th, 2011, a coalition of environmental organizations brought to light problems of pollution and poisoning in Apple’s supply chain in China. Yet to this…
This report focuses on labour rights in the mobile phone industry in India and addresses working conditions in export processing zones (known as Special Economic Zones in India). Th e aim of this research is…
Many of you have already responded to petition and call on Hitachi, who claims to source from Asahi Kosei, an electronic producing company in Malaysia. Asahi Kosei is suing Charles Hector in order to stop…
A new report by China Labor Watch (CLW), ‘Tragedies of Globalization: The Truth Behind Electronics Sweatshops’, points at on-going labour rights violations at ten Chinese electronics factories that supply finished manufactured electronic products to multinational…
Officially, special economic zones (or Ecozones) were created to “promote industrial, economic and social development and, by the way, give jobs to the Philippino people”. But in reality, Ecozones are first of all destined to…