Apple has recently made changes to its policies of withholding any information about the environmental impact of its factories in China. That’s largely thanks to Ma Jun, who this week won the Goldman environmental prize for his work. As the founder of China’s Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs (IPE), former journalist Ma Jun spearheads [...]

The US anti-sweatshop movement was born the day we discovered how our Nikes were stitched together. Two decades later, we are discovering how our cherished iPhones are made, giving Apple a ” Nike moment” of its own. Worker suicides at Apple’s main Chinese supplier, Foxconn, in 2010, followed by reports of [...]

Apple has told prominent environmental activists in the U.S. and China that it will soon allow independent environmental reviews of at least two suppliers’ factories in China, the activists said. The reviews come as Apple (AAPL) faces rising criticism about toxic pollution and factory injuries at overseas suppliers’ factories. Environmental examinations would [...]

Nokia recently raised its voice on the issue of conflict minerals by publishing a policy that spells out its stand. The Finnish phone maker joins other consumer electronics companies in the corporate responsibility of avoiding conflict minerals in their supply chain. “We are concerned about the link between illegal extraction and trade [...]

Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest China-based contractors, has boosted its workers’ wages by around 25% after been subjected to inspections by a US labour rights group. Foxconn, which is owned by a Taiwanese group, reported that it has boosted wages by a quarter in the wake of Apple instigating inspections by [...]

Apple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of its iPhones and iPads. The company’s public image took a dive after revelations about working conditions in the factories of [...]

A new California lawsuit accuses Apple, Google, Adobe Systems, Intel, and other tech companies of violating antitrust laws by allegedly conspiring to fix employee pay, as well as working out “no solicitation” deals with one another. The suit (PDF), which seeks class action status, was filed today with the California Superior Court in Alameda County [...]

Stung by labor shortages and a rash of suicides this year at its massive factories in southern China, Foxconn Technology said Wednesday that it would immediately raise the salaries of many of its Chinese workers by 33 percent. The pay increase is the latest indication that labor costs are rising in [...]

L’organisation des principaux producteurs et fonderies de l’étain (ITRI), s’est dit prêt à débuter la seconde phase d’essai pilote au sujet de la traçabilité de l’étain provenant des mines de la République démocratique du Congo (RDC). La plus haute autorité mondiale dans le domaine de l’étain ” va commencer à établir une traçabilité du minerai [...]

Apple has admitted that child labour was used at the factories that build its computers, iPods and mobile phones. At least eleven 15-year-old children were discovered to be working last year in three factories which supply Apple. The company did not name the offending factories, or say where they were based, but the majority of [...]