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Electronics company sues human rights defender for $3.3 million.
Japanese-owned electronics company Asahi Kosei sues Malaysian human rights defender for $3.3 million. The trial is scheduled to start on 27 June 2011. At stake the labour rights of migrant workers and the freedom of…
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The North Kivu mining sector: report on the reopening of the mines
Economic operators in the mining sector in East Congo, incl the army and representatives of artisanal diggers, met to discuss issues at stake and challenges ahead now the temporary mining ban has been lifted.On 16…
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Throwaway Labour: The exploitation of Chinese “trainees” in Japan
A new research report published today by China Labour Bulletin examines in detail how this conveyor belt supplying cheap Chinese labour to Japan developed over the last decade, and shows that while Japanese employers and…
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Fair, safe and legal working conditions begin with hiring
Whether you are a brand, supplier, government, investor, anti-slavery or labor-rights organization, social auditor, or certifier, your approach to protecting migrant workers is not complete unless it includes a focus on the path that workers…
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ICCR Social Sustainability Resource Guide
Corporate social responsibility departments are now established at most Fortune 500 companies overseeing a range of initiatives from community investing to micro-financing to improved trainings for employees. But if these corporate initiatives are designed, implemented…
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Waking from a ten-year dream: Migrant workers in Dongguan, China
36-year old Lü Linjuan and her husband first settled in Dongguan ten years ago, hoping to create a better life for themselves and their family by laboring in China’s factory to the world. Until last…
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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…
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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…