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Samsung admits the tin in its products cause environmental damage following Friends of the Earth campaign 13 May 2013 | 03:10 am
The world's best-selling smartphone brand, Samsung, has committed to urgent action to tackle the problem following pressure from Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Island) and from more...
Promise from Foxconn on democratic union is broken 9 May 2013 | 03:00 am
A recent report conducted by a group of scholars and students from China and Hong Kong reveals that the high enrolment rate of Foxconn union is just window-dressing. The world's biggest factory empire...
Complaint filed against Electrolux for violating OECD guidelines 9 Apr 2013 | 03:14 pm
The management of Electrolux Thailand has violated the freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining of the workers of the Electrolux Rayong plant, according to Swedwatch.
Malaysian electronics manufacturer Renesas Semiconductor criticised for union busting 8 Apr 2013 | 05:09 pm
87 civil society organisations from Malyasia and abroad are calling on Renesas Semiconductor (formerly NEC Semiconductors Malaysia) to stop obstructing or delaying, and immediately accord recognition ...
Apple fails in its responsibility to monitor suppliers 8 Mar 2013 | 03:25 pm
In its code of conduct, Apple claims that it requires its suppliers to uphold its workers’ basic human rights as understood by the international community, and to treat them with dignity and respect.
Migrant workers in Malaysian electronics industry face atrocious working conditions 17 Jan 2013 | 06:54 pm
Migrant workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry are heavily indebted by the time they start working because of extortionate fees of recruitment agencies. Migrant workers are paid less, sometimes ev...
Report on mobile network operators in Hungary 10 Dec 2012 | 04:00 am
After makeITfair research on the corporate responsibility of mobile network operators in Sweden, Germany and Finland, there is now also a report on the conduct of Hungarian mobile network operators as...
Flexibility problematic for Hungarian electronics workers 3 Dec 2012 | 04:00 pm
Wages too low to support a family, circumvention of overtime payments violating international standards, 12-hour shifts and temporary agency workers exceeding the number of permanent workers in times ...
Complaint filed against Panasonic, abusing migrant workers in Singapore 24 Nov 2012 | 12:37 am
Last week the Singapore-based NGO Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) submitted a complaint with the Japanese NCP about abuse of migrant Chinese workers at a Panasonic plant in Si...
Mobile responsibility? A look at the human rights and sustainability practices of Finnish mobile network operators DNA, Elisa and TeliaSonera 20 Nov 2012 | 01:50 pm
In 2009, Finnwatch and its partners in the makeITfair project published a comparative study looking at the responsibility of Finnish and other European mobile network operators. The results showed tha...
