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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. Read the latest briefing here. In 2018 KnowTheChain benchmarked over 120 global companies across the three sec...
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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- Related in-depth areas: Modern Slavery Registry powered by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
- Related companies: AB InBev UK (part of Anheuser-Busch InBev) ASOS British Land British Sky Broadcasting Burberry Debenhams Experian John Lewis (part of John Lewis Partnership) John Lewis Partnership Legal & General Investment Management Marks & Spencer Mothercare Nando's National Grid Nationwide Building Society Nintendo Renault Vodafone Wockhardt
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...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace
- 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...
- Related stories: China: Interns as young as 14 found at Foxconn’s Yantai plant - company says it is investigating & students have been sent back to school
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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...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace Supply chain
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Hang Up the Phone on Congo’s Warlords
Author: [editorial] Bloomberg News
On Wednesday the Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to vote on an obscure section of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law requiring manufacturers to disclose whether they buy certain metals -- tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold -- that have...
Taking Conflict Out of Consumer Gadgets: Company Rankings on Conflict Minerals 2012
Author: Sasha Lezhnev & Alexandra Hellmuth, Enough Project
Leading electronics companies are making progress in eliminating conflict minerals from their supply chains, but still cannot label their products as being conflict free...Intel, Motorola..., HP, and Apple...have developed conflict minerals programs.....
- Related stories: Some electronics companies are eliminating conflict minerals from supply chains, but others show no progress, Enough Project
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace
- Related companies: Acer Advanced Micro Devices Apple AT&T Boeing Bosch Canon Dell General Electric Google (part of Alphabet) HP (Hewlett-Packard) HTC IBM Intel Lenovo LG Electronics (part of LG Corp.) Lockheed Martin Microsoft Mitsubishi Group Motorola Mobility (part of Lenovo) Motorola Solutions Nikon (part of Mitsubishi Group) Nintendo Nokia Northrop Grumman Panasonic Research In Motion (now BlackBerry) Royal Philips Electronics Samsung SanDisk Sharp Signet Jewelers Sony Sprint Telefónica Toshiba United Technologies Verizon
[video] Human Rights and Business Dilemmas Forum: Conflict Minerals webinar
Author: Maplecroft & UN Global Compact
[On August 3, 2012, the UN Global Compact and Maplecroft co-hosted the Conflict Minerals webinar, with the support of the GE Foundation. The webinar examined the risks posed by conflict minerals to multi-national corporations and featured speakers...
- Related in-depth areas: Latest news on conflict & peace
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