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News / June 8, 2011

The Truth of the Apple iPad Behind Foxconn’s Lies

A short video on working conditions at Foxconn’s iPad production site in Chengdu, the Truth of the Apple iPad Behind Foxconn’s Lies, is released today to unveil the exploitations at Foxconn to Apple’s consumers. In…

News / May 17, 2011

7 Horrors of the World campaign by ITUC

If you dump the planet, you dump the people.” Workers and trade unions will not let this happen! Is there a catastrophic environmental situation in your community, country or region? Does this situation have horrific…

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News / May 17, 2011

Why we are building a global movement to challenge the chip

For more than four decades, people in Silicon Valley in California, United States, have known that the manufacture of computer chips requires many toxic chemicals and that workers have been getting sick from exposure to…

News / May 17, 2011

Facebook, ‘Unfriend Coal’!

Facebook’s coal problem is representative of the IT sector’s growing demand for energy. At current growth rates data centers and telecommunication networks, the two key components of the cloud Facebook depends on, will consume about…

News / May 9, 2011

Taiwan joins worldwide campaign against IT sweatshops

On May 7, Taiwanese groups hosted a candlelight vigil late in Taipei to call attention to the long hours facing employees of local high-tech companies, part of a worldwide action to protest poor working conditions…

News / May 6, 2011

Chine: la pomme empoissonnée d’Apple – appèl urgent

Appel urgent par Peuples solidaires: Le 7 mai 2011, des militants du monde entier participeront à la journée d’action internationale pour exiger des conditions de travail décentes dans l’industrie de l’électronique. En chine, 22 employé-e-s…

News / May 6, 2011

Unresolved labour issues at Apple suppliers in China – new report by SACOM

Global demands for iPhones and iPads are generating substandard working conditions for electronics workers in China. This is the main conclusion of a report published today by the Hong Kong based labour rights organisation SACOM….

Publication / May 1, 2011

Foxconn and Apple Fail to Fulfill Promises

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News / April 28, 2011

Time to bite into a fair Apple: makeITfair and GoodElectronics action day on May 7th

May 7th makeITfair and GoodElectronics are organising an international action day focusing on Apple as an innovative and moneymaking world leader in coveted electronics devices. makeITfair and GoodElectronics are mobilising concerned consumers, youth organisations and…

News / April 14, 2011

Save your face, drop the case

Japanese electronics company Hitachi is failing to uphold human rights throughout its supply chain – while migrant workers are mistreated and Malaysian human rights defenders exposing this behaviour are facing aggressive legal action, Hitachi keeps…

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