As the consumption of electronics has increased rapidly the last years, so has the waste made up of discarded products. E-waste often contains ingredients that risk damaging human health and polluting the environment. In a…
Electronics giants Microsoft and Nintendo have come bottom in the last three Greenpeace rankings for the greenest electronics products makeITfair thinks its time that these multinational monoliths take the lead in putting the planet and…
In December 2008 SACOM and WEED published ‘The Dark Side of Cyberspace’, a report on labor conditions in the Chinese electronics industry. The report uncovered serious violations of workers rights such as excessive overtime hours,…
The demand for cell phones, laptops, and other consumer electronics are helping fuel the deadliest conflict in the world, and most of us don’t even know it. The deadly nexus in the Democratic Republic of…
Nokia is encouraged to lead the way in improving the conditions in its supply chain in a new campaign launched today by three Finnish organisations. Join and sign the petition!Nokia is encouraged to lead the…
A new ActionAid report reveals that mining companies routinely deprive African countries of huge amounts of tax revenue that could be used to combat poverty. from ‘Breaking the Curse: How Transparent Taxation and Fair Taxes…
The European metalworkers’ unions will not allow workers to twice pay the price of a crisis they did not cause. For unions, it is totally unacceptable that workers, in addition to radical job cuts, are…
Publication / February 1, 2009 The dark side of cyberspace Inside the sweatshops of China's Computer Hardware Production WEED and SACOM have released an updated and revised version of “The Dark Side of Cyberspace –…
Oekom’s analysts have scrutinised 43 of the world’s major IT companies and have made a horrifying discovery: “We found serious violations of human rights and of employment rights in more than 40 per cent of…