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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…