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Our Mobile Generation, a project to stimulate more sustainability around mobile phones
The global mobile telecom industry has grown enormously in the past years and consequently, the industry has an increasing environmental and social footprint. At the same time the mobile phone technology offers immense opportunities for…
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Three reasons why a ban on e-waste exports is … right
An editorial by Prof. Eric Williams of Arizona State University in Discovery News entitled ‘Three Reasons Why a Ban on e-Waste Exports is Wrong’, dated 10 August 2010, is responded to in kind on 13…
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Film “Deconstructing Foxconn” portrays Foxconn suicide surviver Tian Yu
“Deconstructing Foxconn’’, a 20-minute film, tells the story of the suicide victims and numerous other anonymous migrant workers employed by Foxconn in China. One of the victims is Tian Yu, 17 year old, who jumped…
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NGO comments on Indian e-waste legislation
The full concerns as brought forward by Toxics Link in August 2010. A summary: Objectives: The Objective of the Draft states that is to enable “recovery and reuse”, thereby relegating the objective to “safeguard environment…
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‘Shake-up Call’ for students shakes universities awake concerning fair computers
Students in Europe are highly critical of the purchasing policies of universities and universities of applied sciences. They are demanding that ICT is purchased sustainably and fairly by the institutions at which they are studying,…
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“Principles and pathways: Legal opportunities to improve Europe’s corporate accountability framework”
Multinational Enterprises hosted by the European Union have continually and increasingly been associated with gross environmental and human rights violations within the EU and internationally. Violations that have been extensively documented by civil society groups,…
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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…
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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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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…