Concerned about alarming reports on heavy metal pollution incidents, Chinese environmental organisations have engaged upon an extensive research project, with a specific focus on IT product manufacture-related heavy metal discharge, especially the battery industry relating…
Vodafone will place greater focus on recycling & reusing mobile phones due to SOMO study ‘Fair Phones: it’s your call’, promises the company in its 2009/2010 sustainability report.In its 2009/2010 Sustainability Report, Vodafone writes to…
20-minute documentary Red Dust chronicles the struggle for justice by women workers in China who have been poisoned by cadmium while manufacturing nickel-cadmium batteries. Red cadmium dust drifted freely in China’s nickel-cadmium battery factories owned…
In light of a series of suicides at the Foxconn Electronics facility in China, a broad coalition of over 40 European, Australian and U.S. investors have joined their voices to issue a public statement condemning…
In October 2009, GoodElectronics together with the Dutch CSR Platform published ‘Reset. Corporate Social responsibility in the global electronics supply chain’. This publication offers an overview of CSR issues that are relevant for the global…
A Spanish version of the Procure IT Fair buyer’s guide is now available. This guide is based on the German version which was published in May 2009. This Spanish version is updated and adapted to…
Consumer electronics companies are increasingly using offshore partnerships to drive benefits beyond labor arbitrage. Such companies are leveraging offshoring to drive competitive advantage by tapping into specialized skills and expertise offered by developing economies in…
A majority of the mobile telephones, toys and clothes that Swedish consumers buy are made in China, a country without freedom of union organisation. All the signs indicate that it is the Chinese workers who…
Massive job cuts have been reported at IBM in the USA, earlier this year. Alliance@IBM/CWA calculated that the company laid off at least 1,052 workers, or about 1 percent of IBM’s 105,000-person U.S. work force,…
In the last three decades, capitalists have made themselves at home in China and, along with international finance and trade envoys, political representatives and their allies within academia, think tanks, media and public relations, they…