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News / December 7, 2010

Foxconn shortlisted for the People’s Public Eye Award for worst company of the year

Foxconn is shortlisted for the People’s Public Eye Award. In September, SACOM, GoodElectronics and Bread for All nominated Foxconn for the worst company of the year 2010. The nomination of Foxconn is justified by a…

News / December 6, 2010

SO-OWE, a montage of art works on environmental and social injustice

European companies often impact the lives of people across the globe. Yet they are not often made accountable for their actions on foreign soil. In many cases, European companies allow for and exacerbate human rights…

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News / December 6, 2010

Thousands of consumers across Europe demand fair & green mobile phones

Today, makeITfair campaigners in Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden will hand over thousands of signatures to mobile phone network operators such as KPN, T-Mobile, Tele2 and Vodafone to show that there is a consumer…

News / December 3, 2010

Workers defending their rights are sacked at Jabil Mexico

In May, 2010, a group of workers of Jabil Circuit in Mexico filed a legal suit against the company, in search of leveled wage rates. The workers disagreed with Jabil paying technicians different wages for…

News / December 3, 2010

Blood in my mobile – join the facebook group!

The producers of the documentary film ‘Blood in the mobile’ are focused on creating awareness about the link between conflict minerals and our mobile phones. Their mission is to make the manufacturers of mobile phones…

News / December 3, 2010

Working Conditions in Thailand’s Hard Disk Drive Industry

This policy brief by the Dutch Centre for research on multinational corporation SOMO focuses on the working conditions in Thailand’s hard disk drive industry and is meant for stakeholders that are interested to get to…

News / December 2, 2010

Responses and non-respsonses to labour issues in Indian mobile phone industry

In September 2010, Cividep (India) published a report raising concerns about working conditions in mobile phone manufacturing plants at the Nokia campus of the Telecom Special Economic Zone in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, drawing on interviews…

News / December 2, 2010

Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) proceeds with electronics programme

The Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH) is proceeding with the preparations for an ambitious programme fro the global electronics sector. With an initial focus on China, IDH aims at contributing to improving the working conditions of…

News / December 2, 2010

Electronics sector not interested in joining ILO Better Work programme

Recently, the ILO Better Work Programme released the executive summary of a scoping study into the feasibility of a Better Work programme in the electronics industry. Leading brands and suppliers expressed little immediate demand for…

News / December 2, 2010

make IT fair campaign launches on 3 December 2010 in Belgium

Friday 3 December, the makeITfair campaign will take off in Belgium. makeITfair Belgium will give a press conference and release a report and a leaflet.Friday 3 December, the makeITfair campaign will take off in Belgium….

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