ProcureITfair publishes ‘Buy IT fair’, a guideline that shows how public institutions can avoid buying IT-products that were produced under violation of workers rights. With ‘Buy IT fair’ , ProcureITfair will intensify its efforts to…
In ‘Legal and illegal blurred. Update on tin production for consumer electronics in Indonesia’, FinnWatch describes severe environmental destruction as a result of unregulated informal tin mining operations in Indonesia. The global electronics industry is…
The EICC-GeSI Supply Chain Mapping Project will investigate the supply chain for tin (solder), tantalum (capacitors and deposition targets), and cobalt (batteries and magnetic recording media) used in electronics. The purpose of this project is…
Electronics manufacturing firm Jabil, producing Blackberry phones in Mexico is doing well, despite the economic crisis, forecasting a 30% increase in exports.Lilia Chacón and Elizabeth Ortiz of El Norte report that the electronics manufacturing firm…
A new book on Chinese workers’ rights published by Globalization Monitor, with a introduction by Agnes Jongerius – president of the Netherlands Trade Union Confederation FNV.A documentation of battery women workers’ struggle for health and…
UNI-Europa and EMF members in HP/EDS are extremely concerned about the management’s attempt to take advantage of the current crisis to undertake off-shoring to low-cost countries. In a joint press release dated 15 July 2009,…
Dell publishes a list of its suppliers, following in the footsteps of Hewlett Packard and Fujitsu.Dell has just published a list of its suppliers, following in the footsteps of Hewlett Packard and Fujitsu. Dell is…
The report of the makeITfair and GoodElectronics may 2009 Round Table is now available on-line. The report gives a summary of the presentations that were made and the topics that were discussed during the meeting,…
The Greener Electronics Guide is Greenpeace’ way of getting the electronics industry to take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of its products. Greenpeace wants the industry to face up to the problem of e-waste and…
COOL IT CHALLENGE – A Greenpeace campaign to turn IT industry leaders into climate advocates and solution providers. Our planet is on the brink of runaway climate change and the consequences will be catastrophic. Our…