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Article

28 Jul 2004

Author:
CAFOD

How clean is your computer now?

Six months after the launch of Clean Up Your Computer...The campaign has clearly succeeded in putting the issue of labour standards on the agenda of the three leading computer giants. All have adopted codes of conduct and are taking steps to implement it. But the codes still don't match international UN standards, and stories from the factory floor show that exploitative conditions still exist. [refers to Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Primax, SCI]