Together with The Dragonfly Initiative, Fairphone is working on a scoping study on the social and environmental issues in materials that are found in smartphones. After identifying the main materials to focus on, they now…
Cobalt is an essential element in rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that are used for smartphones, laptops and electric vehicles. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the world’s biggest supplier of cobalt, children work in dangerous…
SHARPS and the party of South Korea’s Presidential frontrunner have agreed to a policy framework aimed at resolving the occupational disease cluster of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.—one of the most critical milestones in ten years…
Twenty-five years after the start of the first CSR programs, they form an international multi-billion-dollar industry. But unsafe, illegal conditions continue in supply chain factories throughout the world. “Corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs began in…
Market leader in chip making TSMC is expanding. As the smartphone market is cooling, the company is looking into producing chips for High-performance computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Co-Chief Executive of the Taiwanese company,…
The company expects a transformation towards a holding company to have undesirable effects on shareholder value and long-term growth. Since November 2016, Samsung has been discussing the idea of simplifying its capital structure. This matter…
The ‘gold in your hands’ petition is part of a campaign initiated by the Stop Child Labour coalition, asking electronics companies to take action against child labor in gold mines. The campaign informed over 1…
Apple considers to join iPhone assembler Foxconn in its bid for Toshiba’s chip-making business. Apple might invest several billion dollars in order to buy a stake of at least 20 percent. The Taiwanese company Foxconn,…
In response to Apple’s 10th Supplier Responsibility Progress Report in 2016, Dr. Jenny Chan shows the limits of corporate self-regulation in China and highlights the responsibility of governments, corporations, unions and public consumers in protecting…
In order to develop a guide with good practices in relation to the management and disposal of hazardous substances, Mr. Baskut Tuncak, Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council, is requesting input from governments…