Case-1: Making Apple I pod

Hong Fu Jin Precision industries is one of chinas largest export manufacturer who manufacture components of music player, multimedia phones, gamed console and others used mainly by young consumers to different international companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Philips and Sony. The company runs big facility with more than 200,000 employees. Hongfujin Precision industries are owned by large Taiwanese conglomerate called Foxconn. Mid of 2006, Foxconn which has the contract to manufacture the iPod from Apple, has taken reporter Wang You and editor Weng Bao of China Business News to court. According to this Associated Press report, Hongfujin Precision Industry, which is owned by Hon Hai, has filed a defamation lawsuit against the two journalists, who had alleged in their news reports that this factory violate national labor laws and the human rights by forcing the workers to work on overtime with low wages, excessive working hours, negative effects on health due to poor facilities and working under horrendous conditions. Apple, quickly investigated, and reported its findings that some abuses of its supplier code of conduct did take place and that it would take steps to address the issue. The Shenzhen Intermediate Court accepted the case and ordered to freeze the personal assets of the two journalists even without giving a chance to defend themselves. Apple intercede to work behind the scenes when advocacy group Reporters Without Borders based in Paris sent a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs urging Apple to intercede with Hongfujin to drop the lawsuit.

Case-2: Unocal in Myanmar

The Southern California energy giant Unocal had signed a contract giving it a prominent role in a $1-billion of natural gas pipeline across Myanmar (formerly Burma) in 1995. The pipeline was to run through Myanmars tropical forest

region and according to contract, the government of Myanmar is responsible for protecting the pipeline. The Myanmar Military increased its presence in the pipeline region to provide security and other services for the Project. The case contends that Unocal Corp. should hold accountable for human rights violations that took place during the construction of its gas pipeline in Burma. Representing 14 Burmese villagers forced by the Burmese army into

working on the pipeline, the International Labor Rights Fund made history in 1996 by filing the first lawsuit against a U.S. multinational for its alleged complicity in human rights abuses committed outside the United States. Although, Unocal having no clue about the government course of action but it was known that population already suffering abuses at the hands of the Myanmar's military regime. However, Unocal should have withdrawn from the project when interested human rights groups intervened and brought to light the tactics being used to facilitate the pipelines progress. By going ahead and completing the project despite these factors shows that the company cared less about the abuse of human rights.