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Fairphone earns B Corporation Certification
It’s official! Fairphone is now a Certified B Corporation. With this new certification, Fairphone has joined a community of over 1,000 companies that have also been certified to show that they are using their businesses…
Conflict minerals: MEPs ask for mandatory certification of EU importers
EU importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold for manufacturing consumer goods need to be certified by the EU to ensure that they do not fuel conflicts and human rights abuses in conflict areas, say…
Judgement of Seoul Administrative Court on medical care benefit for former Samsung workers
Two South-Korean Samsung workers got seriously ill while working on the semiconductor assembly line. After applying for medical care benefit, Samsung decided to disapprove their applications, saying that it could not recognise a proximate causal…
Clicking clean: a guide to building the clean internet
The internet is rapidly working its way into nearly every aspect of the modern economy. Long unshackled from our web browser, we now find the internet at every turn, and ready to play a bigger…
European Commission takes Poland and Slovenia to court for e-waste failings
The European Commission is referring Poland and Slovenia to the EUCourt of Justice over their failure to enact EU legislation on the recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment. The EU rules, which should have…
Brochure: Katanga calling
From the price we pay for our electronics, little comes back to the people who dig the metal from the soil. This is also the case for cobalt from the Democratic Republic of Congo, an…