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Author: Meristation
“Vinculan a empresas relacionadas con videojuegos con el uso de mano de obra esclava en China” – 3 de marzo de 2020...
- Related companies: Foxconn (part of Hon Hai) Hon Hai Microsoft Nintendo Sony
China: 83 major brands implicated in report on forced labour of ethnic minorities from Xinjiang assigned to factories across provinces; Includes company responses
In March 2020, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) published a report Uyghurs for sale: ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang, which identified 83 foreign and Chinese companies as allegedly directly or indirectly...
Major brands implicated in report on forced labour beyond Xinjiang
Author: Australian Strategic Policy Institute
[The Australian Strategic Policy Institute published a report entitled "Uyghurs for sale - ‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xinjiang" in February 2020.]...
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KnowTheChain: Ranking companies' efforts to address forced labour in their supply chains
KnowTheChain is a resource for businesses and investors who need to understand and address forced labor risks within their supply chains. In 2020/2021 KnowTheChain will be becnhmarking 180 companies in three sectors. In 2019 will be publishing inves...
Briefing: Modern slavery reporting: Weak and notable practice
Author: CORE, Anti-Slavery International, Unicef UK, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
This particular briefing draws on CORE’s and BHRRC’s analysis of 83 slavery and human trafficking statements in February 2016, BHRRC’s October 2016 review of FTSE 100 company reports; and Ergon Associates’ research on company statements up to May 20...
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Global Slavery Index catalogues forced labour around the world
Author: Elisabeth Braw, Guardian Sustainable Business (UK)
According to the Global Slavery Index,...29 million children and adults around the world work in servitude. India leads with about 14 million forced labourers,...China has...2.9 million and Pakistan just above 2 million. Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia,...
The Playstation War: Conflict Minerals and Video Game Manufacturing [USA]
Author: Barbara Jones (Greenberg Traurig) for Gamasutra
Tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold...are minerals...found in an array of electronics including video game consoles and components...[G]aming consoles and conflict minerals are so closely linked that some refer to the decades-long conflict in Congo as...
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- Related companies: HP (Hewlett-Packard) Intel Microsoft Motorola Nintendo
China: Interns as young as 14 found at Foxconn’s Yantai plant - company says it is investigating & students have been sent back to school
Foxconn Employs Interns between 14 to 16 [China]
Author: China Labor Watch
According to China Labor Watch's investigation and a Chinese media report, Foxconn Yantai employed child labor during this last summer...These underage interns were mainly sent to Foxconn by schools, but Foxconn did not check the IDs of these young...
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Nintendo takes steps to reduce use of conflict minerals in Wii U
Author: Brian Crecente, The Verge [USA]
Nintendo says that the companies that make the 3DS, Wii and Wii U for them have promised that those consoles will not be made with conflict minerals..."All production partners have agreed to comply with our guidelines...we have obtained individual...
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