Reports and summaries
Capacitating Electronics
The corrosive effects of platinum and palladium mining on labour rights and communities
SOMO - November 2007

Cobalt production for batteries in the DR Congo and Zambia
SwedWatch - November 2007

Tin production for consumer electronics in the DR Congo and Indonesia.
FinnWatch - December 2007
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Production of Next-generation electronics in Poland
KARAT - December 2007
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Mobile Phone manufacturing in China and the Philippines
SwedWath and SOMO - September 2008
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Music players and game console manufacturing in China
FinnWatch, SACOM and SOMO - March 2008
E-waste trade flows from the EU to developing countries
SwedWatch - April 2009
Update on tin production for consumer electronics in Indonesia
FinnWatch - June 2009
Labour Conditions in the Production of Computer Parts in the Philippines
SOMO - July 2009
Consumer guides
Make IT green. What do you do when your mobile phone stops working? Or your computer breaks down? Every year, we throw away up to 50 million tonnes of unwanted electronic waste – e-waste. That’s enough to fill one million trucks that would stretch half way around the entire globe if they were parked end to end.
The consumer guide is available:
China calling: make IT fair. Chances are that your mobile phone was made in China. Half of the world’s mobile phones are made there – as well as huge numbers of computers, MP3 players and game consoles.
The consumer guide is available:

Would you like a phone made of gold? The makeITfair campaign is calling on big brand electronics companies to take responsibility for improving the appalling social and environmental conditions in the mineral mines around the world.
The consumer guide is available:

Find out the true cost of a phone call in this consumer guide. Now the makeITfair campaign is calling on young people across Europe to help improve the lives of workers in the developing world who make our electronic dreams come true. Together, we can make IT fair for people everywhere!
The consumer guide is available: