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Our website contains a variety of items dating back to 2001. You can use this archive to explore by year, campaign theme, specific campaign, and category. See also our new releases, our media appearances and our newsletters.

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Panorama gets under the skin of Apple’s ethical claims

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event report

18th Dec 2014

The media just won’t leave Apple alone – I almost feel sorry for them. I know I shouldn’t feel sorry for the global megabrand, but I almost do: Apple’s getting the Panorama treatment.

MPs’ call to end throwaway society welcomed

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news release

24th Jul 2014

Responding to the Environmental Audit Committee’s Circular Economy report published today (Thursday 24 July 2014), Friends of the Earth Resource Use Campaigner Julian Kirby said: “Thanks to greedy companies and short-sighted 1970’s economists we live in a throwaway society we …

The long road to corporate transparency

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5th Mar 2014

Apple opens up, Europe shuffles forward, the UK digs its heels in and cries. It’s nice to see progress, isn’t it? Especially when on so many other fronts the world seems to have been taken over by the mad, bad …

UK should be ashamed for blocking EU corporate transparency reform

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news release

26th Feb 2014

The UK has today succeeded in watering down new European rules designed to boost corporate transparency, by blocking plans that would have required large private companies to report on their environmental and social impacts, alongside firms listed on stock exchanges.

Apple comes clean on use of illegal Bangka tin following Make It Better campaign

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news release

14th Feb 2014

Apple’s supplier responsibility report published earlier this week reveals for the first time that it sources tin from almost every smelter in the Indonesian province associated with dangerous illegal mining and environmental destruction.

Send Vince a message!

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19th Jan 2014

In December European politicians voted to strengthen company reporting rules. But in 2014 Business Minister Vince Cable is still out to weaken the Make It Better Law.

MEPs back tough company transparency law

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news release

17th Dec 2013

MEPs have today voted to toughen up proposed new company transparency rules to make large companies report annually on risks their operations pose to communities and the natural world, such as accidents, pollution and human rights.

Campaigners thank North West MEP for backing tough action on irresponsible companies

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news release

29th Nov 2013

Greater Manchester campaigners thanked Arlene McCarthy MEP for backing tough action to make companies come clean about their effect on people and the environment in a meeting in Manchester today.

MEPs must force firms to come clean on impacts

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news release

26th Nov 2013

MEPs must resist pressure from corporate lobbyists and UK ministers and close loopholes in new company transparency rules, a coalition of charities including Friends of the Earth is urging today. It comes on the day MEPs debate crucial amendments to …

Close dirty loopholes for cleaner supply chains

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12th Aug 2013

This year’s horse meat scandal highlighted just how easy it is for things to go wrong when companies don’t know exactly how their products are made. But horse meat is just the tip of the iceberg. Samsung says it had …

Make it Better: Nokia, Sony, Blackberry, Motorola and LG all come clean

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31st Jul 2013

This has been a bit of a crazy week. In the last few days Nokia, Sony, Blackberry, Motorola and LG have all publicly accepted that their phones are likely to contain forest-trashing tin from Bangka Island. And I think I …

Apple leads fact-finding mission to Indonesian island over tin

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news release

12th Jul 2013

Responding to a change in Apple’s ‘supplier responsibility’ page which says the company has led a fact-finding visit to Bangka Island, Indonesia to learn more about tin mining, Friends of the Earth campaigner Julian Kirby said: “Unlike Samsung and Philips, …

‘Rotten’ Apple told: come clean on Bangka tin

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news release

6th Jul 2013

Apple is still refusing to admit to customers that its products contain tin that’s destroying tropical forests, killing coral and wrecking the lives of communities in Indonesia, Friends of the Earth reveals today.

Make it Better: Turn the heat up on Apple

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26th May 2013

It’s time to turn up the heat on Apple. Friends of the Earth supporters have already forced its biggest rival, Samsung, to confirm that it uses forest-trashing tin in its products. But Apple is still refusing to go public about …

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