South Korea’s newly elected president Moon Jae-in is planning to reform the country’s economy and make an end to the cozy ties between the government and big family-run conglomerates, known as ‘chaebol’. The economy of…
As hundreds of employees in the IT sector in India have been losing their jobs, IT Unions FITE and NDLF stepped up their effort to resist these terminations. Companies such as Cognizant Technology Solutions (CTS),…
The ambitions of Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk are sky high, but factory workers are suffering to realise them. Factory workers complain of long working hours, high pressure and work-related injuries. Between 2013 and 2016, the…
Qualcomm is suing four Apple suppliers for breach of contract for refusing to pay royalties. The four Apple suppliers are Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal. Apple instructed the four manufacturers not to pay royalties. Apple…
Microsoft and the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights have agreed on a five year partnership to “better predict, analyze and respond to critical human rights situations,”. The software company and the UN will…
SHIFT performed a study on the maturity of corporate human rights reporting of 74 large companies. They conclude that companies still lack a focus on the most relevant human rights risks related to their operations,…
An investigation of the Guardian last November revealed that migrant workers in Malaysia, who produce for Panasonic and Samsung, are exploited and underpaid. The steps that the two companies have taken since then fall short…
The OECD developed a new guideline that describes practical actions companies can undertake in order to identify and prevent child labor in their mineral supply chains. There is increasing awareness about child labor in the…
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…