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…
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,…