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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…