Last November, corporate officials informed the more than 270 employees of the Philips Luminaires plant in Sparta, Tennessee., that it would be shutting down the nearly 40-year-old lighting fixture factory and moving most of its…
ILOVEFOXCONN is an interactive mockumentary and touch game for iOS and android platforms in the making. It features a virtual tour of an electronic manufacturing plant, modeled after Foxconn, hosted by the CEO, where you…
Over the past three years, the Procure IT Fair project has been advocating the sustainable public purchasing of computers in Europe. This final statement marks the successful completion of the project, summarizes the project’s achievements…
A decade ago no one except geologists had heard of tantalum or ‘coltan’ – an obscure mineral that is an essential ingredient in mobile phones and laptops. Then, in 2000, reports began to leak out…
At its 65th Annual General Meeting, the Malaysian Bar unanimously carried a motion in support of human rights defender Charles Hector. Mr Hector is facing legal charges by the Japanese electronics company Asahi Kosei for…
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….