The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) is convening, together with the secretariats of the Basel and Stockholm Conventions, an international workshop to consider issues associated with electrical and electronic products based on a life-cycle…
Japanese labour unions are facing legal charges for supporting the struggle of migrant outsourced workers in Malaysia working for the Japanese electronics company Asahi Kosei. Early this year, using his blog and Twitter, Malaysian human…
Last Friday 4 March 2011, Charles Hector, a Malaysian human rights defender, activist, lawyer & blogger, met in court with the Japanese electronics company Asahi Kosei. Mr Hector is being sued by Asahi Kosei for…
In 2009, a number of workers at United Win in Suzhou (China) suffered the effects of hexane poisoning. United Win is a subsidiary of the Taiwanese electronics company Wintek Corporation and a supplier to Apple….
In 2009 and 2010, reports came out about electronics workers being poisoned by N-hexane in China. This was at United Win, the Suzhou based subsidiary of the Taiwanese company Wintek. United Win produces for Apple….
Jenny Chan, co-founder and previous coordinator of the Hong Kong-basedStudents & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), speaks of the challenges of working in China and the innovative strategies SACOM has developed to overcome those difficulties.In…
Four supplier factories of game consoles and MP3 players (supplying to Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Philips and Sony) have been recently re-examined by makeITfair and made significant improvements. Some important issues remain however: the wage increases…
In Malaysia a labour dispute has erupted over the treatment of Burmese migrant workers working for Japanese electronics company Asahi Kosei. In support of the Burmese workers threatened with dismissal and deportation, Malaysian and international…
On 11 February 2011, Malaysian labour activist Charles Hector and others issued a media statement expressing shock about how unjust Japanese electronics company Asahi Kosei is treating its workers, in particular a group of 31…
In its Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report, issued in February 2011, Apple accounts for the first time for its responses to the suicides at Foxconn. The reports details how two suicide prevention specialists with experience…