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This list is of our top 200 suppliers, including component providers and others representing at least 97 percent of procurement expenditures for materials, manufacturing, and assembly of our products worldwide in 2013.
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Four factories in the provinces Guangdong and Jiangsu were investigated on their working conditions. The findings of the investigation are harsh: Forced overtime, strenuous shifts during peak periods, few days off each month, wages lower than a living wage, and militant management.
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IDPage-000001375TitleIT workers still pay the price for cheap computersYearReport TypeCompaniesDiscussion
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This report focuses on labour rights in the mobile phone industry in India and addresses working conditions in export processing zones (known as Special Economic Zones in India). The aim of this research is to get an understanding of unionisation and precarious employment in four mobile phone factories, namely Nokia, Salcomp, Flextronics and Foxconn, based in Sriperumbudur around Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
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IDSource-000001376TitlePhony Equality: Labour standards of mobile phone manufacturers in IndiaYearReport TypeCompaniesDescription
This report investigates conditions under which children work in informal gold mines in Ghana and Mali, attempts to map gold value chains from mines to electronics, and has engaged with major electronics companies to assess their policies on responsible value chain management. This report has been conducted as a combination of desk study and field research in Ghana’s Ashanti region and Mali’s Sikasso region in the spring of 2013. On both field studies, small scale mining operations were visited, and stakeholders such as child labourers, parents, adult miners, mining operation supervisors, local chiefs and school headmasters, gold dealers, and local NGOs and other experts were interviewed. It was not possible to arrange an interview with Ghana’s Mining Commission or Precious Mineral Marketing Company, who both have been sent questions by mail afterwards, to which they have not responded. In Mali, regional chiefs, local chiefs, and mayors were interviewed. The sources for the desk research are academic overviews, reports from major human rights and labour organisations, such as Human Rights Watch, ILO and MakeItfair. The report uses Data from the World Bank, market analysis companies, and industry organisations.
The report chooses to focus on the 5 largest computer brands and the 5 largest phone brands on the European market, to which a survey on gold sourcing practices were sent. Acer, Lenovo, Asus and Dell did not respond, though they were contacted several times over a period of more than two months. Samsung, Apple, Research In Motion, Nokia, HTC and HP responded. For those companies who did not respond, company policies
available on websites were used.
A list of initiatives for responsible production and sourcing of minerals has also been compiled. Some of them have direct relevance for the issue of child labour in gold value chains; some have relevance in terms of value chain management of other minerals, to show what is done on industry level.
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IDPage-000001393TitleChild labour in Ghana and Mali and sourcing policies of IT brandsYearReport TypeDescription
Yesterday, Hewlett-Packard released a list of 195 smelters identified in our supply chain. We are the first IT company to publish a supply chain smelter list.Discussion
IDPage-000001379TitleHP Releases Supply Chain Smelter List in an Effort to Achieve a Conflict-free Supply ChainYearReport TypeCompaniesDescription
As of January 31, 2013
This list contains the tantalum, tin, tungsten, and gold smelters/refiners we confirmed are presently in our supply chain. We will update the list annually with the latest information about our supply chain smelters/refiners.
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Smartphones are incredibly advanced devices, iPhone or Android, they are packed with advanced components manufactured using some of the world's rarest raw materials -- but in some cases the cost of those materials includes an inconceivable degree of human suffering.
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IDPage-000001418TitleWould you kill for your smartphone?YearReport TypeCompaniesDescription
Recent developments relating to the sourcing of conflict-free minerals from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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IDSource-000001377TitleFrom Congo with (no) bloodYearReport TypeDescription
Acer has developed this Conflict Minerals Report (CMR), covering the period from January 1 to December 31 of 2013, for the purpose of describing our due diligence efforts on the source and chain of custody of the gold, columbite - tantalite (coltan), cassiterite, wolframite, tantalum, tin, and tungsten (collectively referred to as “3TG”) contained in our products that we have reason to believe may have originated from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (“DRC”) or an adjoining country (collectively defined a s the “Covered Countries”) and may not have come from recycled or scrap sources.
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IDSource-000001357TitleAcer Incorporated - Conflict Minerals ReportYearReport TypeCompaniesDescription
This study was designed to provide a snapshot of workplace and environmental contamination from a selection of industrial units and dump sites associated with the electronic waste-recycling sector in China and India. A total of more than 70 samples were collected during March 2005 from sites located in the vicinity of Guiyu Town, Guangdong Province in southern China and in the suburbs of New Delhi, India. Samples included industrial wastes, indoor dusts, soils, river sediments and groundwater from typical sites representing all major stages routinely employed in the dismantling, recycling and final disposal of electrical and
electronic wastes (i.e. storage, component separation, plastic shredding, acid processing/leaching, open burning and residue dumping) in both countries.Discussion
IDSource-000001382TitleToxic Tech: Recycling of electronic wastes in China and India: workplace and environmental contaminationYearReport Type