Labour conditions at foreign electronics manufacturing companies in Brazil
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Worldwide e-waste rose with 8 procent in the last 2 years
According to the Global E-waste Monitor 2017 report our worldwide e-waste rose with 8 procent in de last two years. The report predicts that e-waste will increase an additional 17 percent by 2021 and will…
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Philippines Congress extension of martial law is attack on trade union and human rights – EILER
On December 13, 2017, the supermajority in the 17th Congress and the Senate approved President Rodrigo Duterte’s extension of martial law in Mindanao, Philippines for another year. The decision is far from the promised promotion…
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What is Non-Financial Reporting? And how will it change European business?
How much do you know about corporations and their impacts? This is an important question that new EU disclosure requirements for corporations will help us being to answer. Watch this video made by ECCJ.
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Samsung rejects reports of labour abuse in Vietnamese smartphone factories
A report released by CGFED and IPEN in November 2017 accuses Samsung of ‘serious’ labour abuses in its Vietnamese smartphone factories. Despite the evidence, Samsung disputes claims of wrongdoing and said the report is different from the…
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Samsung cements Vietnamese electronics production amid allegations of female worker exploitation
Samsung has finished construction of a US$600 million research and development center in Ho Chi Minh City. Yet, this comes as a report by Research Center for Gender Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPEN sheds light on…
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Ireland has to collect unpaid taxes from Apple
In August 2016 the European Commission ruled that Apple has to pay 13 billion of taxes to the government of Ireland. Ireland now is forced to collect this money the don’t want. The EC has…
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Samsung uses only 1% renewable energy
Join the Greenpeace campaign and ask Samsung to stop fueling climate change. Greenpeace: “Despite all its PR talk of “championing the impossible” and “doing bigger things”, Samsung still relies on dirty, old-fashioned fossil fuels like…
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The story of labour and workers’ struggle in Malaysia
In a four-part series, Charles Hector examines the history of the Malaysian workers’ struggle, focusing on the fight for independence, British suppression and the post-independence weakening of the labour movement. The series documents how the…
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Calling for transparency in EU customs data
The briefing paper ‘Transparency now’ examines the possibilities for the EU to make customs data public for the purpose of increasing transparency and accountability for human rights abuses committed by companies in the context of…