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    Impact Story: Public buyers’ worker rights alert triggers changes at one of world’s biggest employers

    In 2016, Electronics Watch and Czech monitoring partner Multicultural Center Prague (MKC Praha) began interviewing workers at Foxconn's factory in the city of Pardubice in Czechia. The Taiwanese manufacturer is one of the largest private employers in the world. The universities of Leeds, Leicester and Edinburgh had reported buying HP workstations made in the factory...

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    Impact Story: Courageous Migrants Self-organise to Get Out of Forced Labour

    For years, a group of migrants who worked at Possehl Electronics in Malaysia, a manufacturer of parts for semiconductors, tried to get appropriate remediation for being forced into illegal and unsafe work...

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    Impact Story: UK University Buyers Achieve Constructive Industry Response on Student Internships

    In 2015, the NGO Danwatch began an investigation into Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Wistron finding evidence of illegal use of student labour...

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