makeITfair
Het is moeilijk om je een wereld voor te stellen zonder electronische gadgets. We zijn allemaal afhankelijk van Informatie Technologie (IT). IT heeft onze levens op vele manieren verbeterd, maar heeft ook veel nieuwe problemen in de wereld veroorzaakt.
Samsung en Apple gebruiken zeer waarschijnlijk tin in hun mobiele telefoons, dat gewonnen is in Bangka eiland, waar tin mijnen een ravage veroorzaken aan bossen, koralen en de visserij.
Als deel van de Make IT Better campagne van Friends of the Earth, kun je naar Samsung en Apple schrijven en hen vragen om de mensen en de natuur van Bangka te helpen.http://www.foe.co.uk/what_we_do/make_it_better_action_37571.html
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Apple fails in its responsibility to monitor suppliers
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
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 even only half, of what they were promised by the agencies that recruited them, and deductions are made from wages without proper explanation. Workers will undergo HIV testing as part of medical screening and women workers have to have mandatory pregnancy tests and are sent back home if they get pregnant. Contracts, if received at all, are often in a language not understood by the migrant workers, and migrants regularly work up to 72 hour per week.
Report on mobile network operators in Hungary
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 far as human rights and sustainability practices are concerned.
